Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa declared a state of emergency in the Western Region in 1962 due to a severe political crisis ...

IN SHORT: A video of US president Donald Trump saying he will liberate Biafra from Nigeria is circulating on social media. But Trump never made such a statement; the video was generated using ...

With the declaration by President Bola Tinubu, Nigeria has witnessed series of state of emergencies since return to civilian rule in 1999.

Many foreign news reports presented the riots as directly linked to the Miss World contest, arguing that the negative consequences of holding such an event in Nigeria—a country with a large ...

Nigeria's government recently acknowledged that the country has the highest number of children out of school in the world. It says there are 10.5 million children not being educated. Education ...

Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen is "desperate" to qualify for the 2026 World Cup after a "heartbreaking" failure to reach the last finals in Qatar. Newly diagnosed patients may have suffered ...

LAGOS, March 10 (Reuters) - Nigeria has agreed to $200 million deal with WeLight, a pan-African Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) company to deploy hundreds of renewable mini grids, aimed at ...

On April 14 and 21, Nigerians will head to the polls to elect a new president, governors for Nigeria’s 36 states and legislators at both the state and federal levels. 1 It is difficult to ...