Nigeria

Lawmakers in southwestern Nigeria say more than 50 people are feared dead after gunmen opened fire and detonated explosives at a church.

Gunmen attacked a Catholic church in Nigeria Sunday, killing more than 50 people, including many children.

Nigerian lawmakers have passed legislation to bar the payment of kidnap ransoms at a time when the West African nation is struggling to stem the rise of armed violence and kidnaps for ransom in its troubled northwest and central regions.

A Nigerian oil official says as many as 100 people may have died in an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in southeastern Nigeria

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine escalates, Moscow’s growing influence in Africa has led to divergent responses among the continent’s leaders.

Since 1984 at least one African nation has competed at each subsequent winter Olympics.

The Parade of Nations for this year’s Winter Olympics took place in Beijing’s National Stadium.

Jamaica’s not a one-sport Olympic nation this year, but there are a host of them including Malta’s snowboarder from California.

According to Bain & Company, young people – especially those from advanced economies – are getting more stressed out and overwhelmed in the workplace.

The group, known as OPEC+, will rollover its August program to gradually increase oil production by 400,000 barrels per day each month.

More than 100 world leaders, including U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping, have committed to end deforestation by 2030.

Authorities in northern Nigeria say three separate groups of kidnapped students have been freed within a 24-hour period.

A’ja Wilson made a statement in her Olympic debut as the U.S. women beat Nigeria 81-72.

Armed kidnappers in Nigeria have released 28 of the more than 120 students who were abducted at the beginning of July from the Bethel Baptist High School in the northern town of Damishi.

This is not how USA Basketball expected to open its Olympic summer

Nigeria’s government says it’s suspending Twitter indefinitely after the platform deleted a tweet made by President Muhammadu Buhari and called it abusive

Maya Horgan Famodu has become a trailblazer in Africa’s venture capital industry, but her path to success hasn’t been straightforward. 

Two young Nigerian women, who were among the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militant Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 are now graduating from college in America — seven years after their harrowing escape. LX News host Jobeth Devera spoke to the young women about their journey from captivity to freedom, and then to a new country and new life.

The CEO of Nigerian fintech Flux says dropping out of college helped to pave the way for the launch of a new crypto payments company.

Algeria, Chad, Iraq and Nigeria will be among the first countries to experience political instability if the “energy transition” occurs, says Verisk Maplecroft.