The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to allow states to have their own police forces, paving the way for a major reform that wo...

  A former Nigerian oil minister has been cleared of taking bribes from wealthy oil executives in the form of luxury home stays and lavish s...

The federal government has announced that it will launch FreeTV, a national digital television platform, on Wednesday. This was disclosed in...

A Nigerian court on Wednesday sentenced former power minister Saleh Mamman to 75 years in jail for siphoning off millions of dollars from hy...

The United Nations human rights chief has demanded independent investigations into reports that separate air attacks by the Nigerian and Cha...

Nigerian civilians caught in the crossfire once again. Amnesty International says more than 100 civilians were killed in a military airst...

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has asked parliament to approve a $516 ​million foreign loan to help finance the ‌first sections of a new nat...

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has approved a 30% relief on debts owed by local airlines to aviation agencies and ordered talks involving fu...

Six people, including a retired major general and a serving police inspector, have pleaded not guilty to plotting a coup to overthrow Nigeri...

Nigerian authorities have charged six people, including a retired major general and a serving police inspector, with terrorism and treason,...

Nigeria and Turkey have struck a defence agreement to help Africa's most populous nation fight its 17-year-long jihadist insurgency, the...

Nigeria’s broadcast regulator has barred radio and television presenters from airing personal opinions, intimidating guests or broadcasting ...

A Nigerian Air Force strike targeting jihadist rebels hit a local market in the northeast, killing as many as 200 civilians, a local chief r...

The airstrikes on the village of Jilli, in Yobe State , occurred on Saturday, with the death tolls differing according to the sources. Niger...

Survivors and observers have questioned the Nigerian military’s rationale for a devastating airstrike on a busy market that killed as many ...

Nigeria’s state oil company NNPC has exported its first cargo of a new light crude grade, Cawthorne, to the Netherlands, the company said on...

Nigeria has secured a significant international legal victory after an arbitration tribunal dismissed a $6.2 million claim brought by Europe...

Nigeria's data watchdog has opened a probe into Chinese-owned e-commerce giant Temu for suspected data-law violations, the regulator sai...

Nigeria's foreign ministry has issued an urgent warning over what it describes as the increasing illegal recruitment of its citizens to ...

  It’s a hot early afternoon on a tree-lined street in FESTAC town, a popular residential estate in Lagos. People take shelter in the shade ...