Photos: Buhari pledges credible 2019 elections to visiting UK prime minister
Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to the United Kingdom that his government will conduct free, fair and credible elections in 2019.* Buhari’s … source
Nigeria big weddings get even better as nation recovers from recession
A big wedding is not an option in Nigeria, it is an expectation. The expectation is so huge that guests lists can go up to one thousand. Here, wealthy couples…
Google free wi-fi hotspot in Nigeria [Sci tech]
Google launched a network of free Wi-Fi hotspots in Nigeria on Thursday in a move to increase its presence in Africa’s most populous nation. The U.S. … source
Nigeria: 17 soldiers killed in fresh attack by Boko Haram in Borno State
At least 17 Nigerian soldiers were killed in a new Boko Haram attack on a military base in the north-east of the country, the third in a month, sources told…
Nigeria’s civil war explained – BBC News
It’s 50 years since the start of the Biafran war, one of Africa’s bloodiest post-independence conflicts. What was the Nigerian conflict about and why does its legacy … source
Nigeria’s communal clashes deadlier than Boko Haram: Report
Violence in Nigeria between semi-nomadic cattle herders and settled farmers has killed around six times more people than deaths related to the Boko Haram … source
Biafra separatists and army clash: Nigeria’s Abia state imposes curfew
A group campaigning for the secession of a part of southeastern Nigeria, formerly known as Biafra, on Tuesday accused the army of laying siege to their leader’s … source
Nigeria approves $150 million World Bank loan to fight polio
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria has approved a $150 million loan from the World Bank to help eradicate polio and scale up immunization, Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun said on Wednesday. FILE…
Nigeria was warned before Boko Haram abduction of Dapchi girls: Amnesty
Nigeria’s military was on Tuesday accused of ignoring repeated warnings about the movements of Boko Haram fighters before they kidnapped 110 schoolgirls in … source
Boko Haram releases three university lecturers, 10 women [The Morning Call]
The Nigerian government on saturday said three lecturers of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) who were abducted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in … source