Tag: nigeria
Nigerian teenager freed after killing attempted rapist
There have been protests in Nigeria this month call for sexual violence against women to endNigerian prosecutors have decided not to press charges against...
Dozens killed in attack in northern Nigeria
At least 59 people have been killed in a suspected jihadist attack in north-eastern Nigeria.
Gunmen entered a remote village in the Gubio district of...
Nigeria’s spike in deaths linked to Covid-19
Nigeria's Health Minister Osagie Ehanire has said that up to 60% of nearly 1,000 unexplained deaths in the northern state of Kano were probably...
Nigeria army base ‘attack leaves six soldiers dead’
Islamist jihadists have killed six Nigerian soldiers in an attack on a military base in the north-east, the AFP news agency reports.
Army sources told...
Nigerian woman put up for sale refuses to return home
The Nigerian woman who was advertised for sale on Facebook in Lebanon has refused to return home, according to the head of Nigeria's diaspora...
Twelve Nigerian men arrested for raping 12-year-old girl
Twelve men have been arrested in Nigeria, accused of repeatedly raping a 12-year-old girl over a two-month period.
Police in the north-western state of Jigawa...
Gunmen kill dozens of Nigerians in broad daylight
Gunmen have killed dozens of people and wounded many others in a series of attacks on several villages in Nigeria’s north-western state of Sokoto,...
50 trafficked women rescued from Lebanon
Fifty trafficked Nigerian women have been rescued from Lebanon and returned to their home country.
They have been placed in quarantine as a precaution against...
Nigeria: Pastor flogged for criticising government official
A Nigeria pastor has told the BBC about how he was tortured and flogged for two hours because of Facebook posts in which he...
Coronavirus in Nigeria: The child beggars at the heart of the...
Powerful politicians in northern Nigeria are pushing for the scrapping of controversial Koranic schools after some pupils found themselves at the centre of the...
