The Latest Breaking News from Nigeria

Football is a game of passion, and passions can become particularly inflamed when the sport represents larger political struggles. In Nigeria in 1977, an Africa-wide football contest fuelled the ethnic rivalry between the Yoruba and the Igbo people to the point that the military had to intervene. The game was…

Flight comes as news emerges of plan to send asylum seekers who arrive on Chagos Islands to British territory of Saint Helena

Survivors and relatives try to find peace after 170 mostly young people died after a tanker exploded in Jigawa State.

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Some 79 countries around the world continue to enforce blasphemy laws. And in places such as Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, violation of these measures can result in a death penalty.

Nigeria's economic crisis and soaring petrol prices forced Bolaji Emmanuel to give up his driver and his Honda Pilot utility vehicle, as he struggles with spiking living costs.

Nigerian authorities have announced measures to correct lapses that resulted in the death of more than 140 people in an explosion as they were trying to scoop up fuel from an overturned fuel tanker on Wednesday

Many killed while scooping up spilled petrol from road, rising fuel prices forcing them to take ‘desperate measures’.

Tragic fuel tanker explosion in Nigeria's Jigawa state underscores safety risks and economic struggles in the country.

People were collecting fuel from tanker that had crashed when it blew up, according to local police