Nigeria has declared a six-month extension of the state of emergency in areas where troops are fighting members of the armed group Boko H...

A French engineer kidnapped by Islamist militants in northern Nigeria has told the BBC how he managed to escape two weeks ago. Francis C...

An Iranian and a Nigerian national have been convicted of shipping arms to the Gambia through Nigeria. But, as our correspondent reports ...

Police enforcing Islamic law in Nigeria's city of Kano publicly destroyed some 240,000 bottles of beer on Wednesday, the latest move ...

  Ambassador of Switzerland to Nigeria, Dr. Hans-Rudolf Hodel, yesterday said all the $700 million in Swiss bank accounts belonging to the l...