A yearslong effort to convince Washington of religious persecution is shifting foreign policy toward the West African nation, ...

The US had warned travellers against visiting Nigeria, citing terrorism, kidnapping, and armed gangs, as terrorists plotted ...

Armed extremists in northeastern Nigeria have killed dozens in recent raids on a construction site and a military ...

Lt. Gen. John Brennan details U.S. military support helping Nigerian forces combat Islamic State and Boko Haram terrorists ...

Nigeria, like Iran and Venezuela, has become a target of the United States’ increasingly aggressive foreign policy under President Donald Trump. The U.S. military launched airstrikes on northwestern ...

Nigeria will charge several officers over an alleged plot to overthrow President Bola Tinubu after the military acknowledged ...

The gunmen who abducted more than 150 church worshippers in Nigeria’s conflict-hit northwest are demanding 17 motorcycles as ...

Nearly three years on, Nigeria’s 230m people, especially the poor and the middle class, are still reeling from increases in fuel and food prices. Poverty has risen. But it looks as though Mr Tinubu’s ...

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, often called “the conscience of the nation,” has been trying to tone down the uproar after ...

UN warns of 'catastrophic' hunger crisis in Nigeria as food aid funding runs out - The U.N. World Food Program warns that ...