Nigeria

Lagos : At least 32 states and 233 local government areas are at a high risk of flooding in Nigeria due to the ongoing heavy rain, the Ministry of Water Resources said. "The level of floods in the highly probable flood risk areas between…

Abuja : At least eight people were killed when a three-storey building collapsed in Nigeria's Lagos state, an emergency management official said on Monday. Ibrahim Farinloye, coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, told…

Abuja : More than 23 extremist militants, including a prominent Commander of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), were killed in counterterrorism operations by the Nigerian military in the country's northeast region in the past…

Abuja (Nigeria) : More than 100 people have been killed following an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in Nigeria's southern state of Imo, official and local sources said.The explosion occurred late Friday at the illegal oil refinery in…

Lagos : At least three people were killed and 19 others were injured when an explosion hit east Nigeria's Taraba state, local police said. The incident happened on Tuesday at a crowded restaurant in the Irawe town of the state, said Usman…

Lagos: Nigerian police on Thursday confirmed two police officers and five civilians were shot dead in a suspected robbery attack in the country's southeastern state of Edo.A police spokesperson said that the gunmen attacked four banks and a…

Nigeria : The Nigerian government has lifted the ban on Twitter, imposed in June last year, saying the micro-blogging platform has agreed to set "a legal entity" in the west African nation during the first quarter of this year.The Nigerian…

Nigeria : At least 58 people were killed by armed bandits who attacked villages in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state, an official said. Ibrahim Bello Zauma, a spokesperson for the governor of Zamfara state Bello Matawalle, told Xinhua news…

Lagos (Nigeria): At least 16 people have been killed after the bus in which they were travelling collided with a truck on a highway in Nigeria's Bauchi state, the police said on Monday.The accident took place in Bambal village on Sunday…

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