About 120 students and teachers trapped but authorities yet to confirm number of students and teachers killed A two-storey school in north-central Nigeria collapsed during...
Breakaway union by military rulers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger exposes growing fissures within the region The Ecowas grouping of west African countries has...
MSF says it is overwhelmed in country where 31.8 million people are suffering from hunger An unprecedented number of children in northern Nigeria are suffering...
Authorities say 19 more were seriously injured in blasts at wedding, hospital and funeral in country’s north-east At least 18 people have been killed and...
‘Unfair’ rejection rates of up to 70% harm cultural diversity and create a ‘global apartheid’, say promoters and musicians Musicians, authors, producers and festival managers...
Electricity substations shut down, flights suspended and parliament gates blocked in protest over minimum wage Nigeria’s main labour unions have shut down the national grid,...
High Commission to meet leaders at university after currency crash in home country meant students couldn’t pay for tuition Delegates from the Nigerian high commission...
Post-colonial anthem dropped in 1978 reinstituted with little debate amid escalating economic crisis Nigeria has reverted to a national anthem it dropped nearly 50 years...