Nigeria

A plane with 20 people on board suffered engine failure Thursday shortly after takeoff in Lagos and crash-landed near an…

The leader of militant Islamist sect Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, may have died of gunshot wounds some weeks after a…

Magdi Yacoub, the renowned British-Egyptian heart surgeon, has left Cairo for Addis Ababa to practice cardiac surgery, German news agency…

In an unprecedented move, the United States on Monday posted up to $23 million in rewards to help track down…

Nigeria is to investigate its army's conduct after clashes between troops and Islamist fighters in the northeast killed nearly 200…

A Nigerian passenger died after he fell from the top of the arrival hall at Cairo International Airport Thursday evening.…

Four Nigerian villagers took Royal Dutch Shell to court on Thursday in a landmark pollution case that campaigners said could…

AFP — Saudi Arabia has denied entry to some 1,000 Nigerian woman seeking to visit for Hajj because they were…

ABUJA ­— Nigeria's government is reaching out to radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, talking with some of its members via…

ABUJA — Gunmen killed three people in an attack on a mosque in the Nigerian town of Okene on Tuesday,…