Four nuns kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria
Gunmen abducted four Catholic nuns in Imo state, in southeastern Nigeria, where kidnappings for ransom are rife, police said on Monday. “Four Catholic sisters were […]
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Nigeria: Senior military leadership carries out reshuffle in military
Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff has just carried out a major reshuffle of senior officers. With seven months to go before the presidential elections, insecurity […]
Nigeria in crisis: calls mount for Buhari’s impeachment over insecurity and bleeding economy
Nigerian opposition senators have pushed for the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari to face impeachment, 10-months before the end of his second term in office, over […]
Football: South Africa wins women’s CAN 2022 against Morocco
South Africa has finally won the African Women’s Cup of Nations after five failures to reach the last step (1995, 2000, 2008, 2012 and 2018). […]
Kidnapped priest killed by abductors in northwest Nigeria
A Catholic priest abducted last week in northwestern Nigeria was killed by his captors while another priest kidnapped the same day managed to escape, the […]
Nigerian opposition wins Osun State governorship seat
The candidate of Nigeria’s main opposition party has won the governorship election in the southwestern state of Osun, the Electoral Commission said on Sunday, a […]
Nigerian presidential election: Bola Tinubu chooses a northerner as his running mate
Bola Tinubu, candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), for the 2023 presidential election in Nigeria, chose Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate […]
Hundreds of Nigerian prisoners escape after attack
The government said on Wednesday that several hundred inmates, including about 60 jihadists, escaped from a prison on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital, […]
Mohammad Barkindo, head of OPEC, died in Abuja
The secretary general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Mohammad Barkindo of Nigeria, died on Tuesday, official sources said. He was 63 years […]
Gunmen abduct four Chinese workers, locals from Nigerian mine
Heavily armed men attacked a mine in central Nigeria on Wednesday killing security personnel and kidnapping workers, including at least four Chinese, local authorities said […]