At least 274 inmates have escaped from a prison in Nigeria’s Borno state following heavy flooding, the Nigerian Correctional Service said, as aid agencies reported more than 1,000 people had ...

The engine of the Lagos Red Line Rail revved off almost seamlessly, moving with such elegance akin to a handsome groom ...

At least 49 people have been killed and thousands displaced in Nigeria after heavy rains caused flooding in the northeast of the country, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA ...

At least 170 people have died and more than 200,000 others are displaced following weeks of flooding in Africa’s most populous country, a spokesperson for Nigeria’s disaster management agency ...

With its oil wealth, Nigeria should be awash with foreign currency. But years of economic mismanagement have left the country with a debilitating shortage of dollars. In an attempt to fix the ...

The Afrobeats singer did a 9,000km (5,600 miles) trip from the Kenyan city of Mombasa to Lagos in Nigeria, and she spent more than three months travelling. Along the way she experienced gorgeous ...

How serious are ethnic tension and conflict in Nigeria? Both are serious. Nigeria is a deeply divided state in which major political issues are contested along complex ethnic, religious and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nigeria’s presidency has defended its purchase of a multimillion-dollar jet that has swelled the ...

Already on Monday, Nigeria charged 10 people with treason and conspiring to incite the military to mutiny. All of the accused denied the charges that are also linked to the protests. A judge ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nigeria is keen to help crack down on internet extortion scams after Meta’s removal of thousands of fake ...