The World Food Programme says a spike in attacks by militants across northern Nigeria is expected to result in Africa's worst levels of severe hunger next year

President Donald Trump threatened to cut aid to Nigeria over violence against Christians, as War Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Nigerian officials.

Africa’s most populous nation was already facing one of the world’s biggest hunger crises. It’s getting much worse.

American forces most likely would have to be drawn from other parts of the world for any military intervention in Nigeria.

Nigeria's central bank left its main interest rate unchanged on Tuesday, saying it wanted inflation to fall further, but it lowered a deposit rate in a sign of confidence in the economic outlook. The decision came as a surprise as economists polled by Reuters had predicted a 1-percentage-point cut to the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR),

Fredrick, 20, missed club side Dender's Belgian Pro League victory over Royal Antwerp on Sunday due to the injury.

Nicki Minaj responded to the mass kidnapping of 303 children and 12 teachers from St. Mary's School in Nigeria with prayer for hostages' safe return.

Martha Mathias, her husband and two children were asleep at home when gunmen arrived at St Mary's Catholic School campus, in central Nigeria, in the early hours of Friday. "They asked my husband to come out,