Nigeria

Amnesty International says Nigeria’s security forces have fired on two large gatherings of peaceful protesters, killing 12 people who were calling for an end to police brutality.

Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, was a branch of the country’s police force created in 1992 to deal with crime incidents. However, more recently, it has been the subject of massive protests for its links to murders and other illegal activities. LX News talked to young activists Tiffany Isesele and Adedoyin Adeniji, who created a website to raise awareness...

Amnesty International said late Tuesday there is “credible but disturbing evidence” that security forces in the Nigerian megacity of Lagos have fatally shot protesters demonstrating against police brutality

Nigerian protests against police brutality continued Friday for the ninth day, with demonstrators fending off attacks from gangs suspected to be backed by the police, threats from the Nigerian military, and a government order to stop because of COVID-19

A talented 11-year-old Nigerian boy says he is pleasantly surprised after a cellphone video of him dancing in the rain went viral

Anthony Madu, 11, was invited to study ballet with the best dancers in the world after a viral video of him leaping and pirouetting in the rain-soaked streets of Lagos, Nigeria, caught the attention of the American Ballet Theatre.

A Nigerian man charged with conspiring to launder a fortune from email scams, and who showed off his wealth to 2.4 million Instagram followers, has arrived in the U.S. to face charges, prosecutors said Friday. Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, or “Hushpuppi” on Instagram and Snapchat, made an initial court appearance in Chicago after arriving with the FBI from the United Arab…

Cardi B’s announcement that she wants to seek Nigerian citizenship has set off a Twitter feud between her West African fans in friendly rivals Nigeria and Ghana. The Grammy-winning rapper visited both countries last month on her African tour. Her announcement in a tweet on Friday criticized the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani and...

A new report says more than one-third of women in four low-income countries in Africa and Asia were slapped, mocked, forcibly treated or otherwise abused during childbirth in health centers and suggests that such mistreatment occurs worldwide. The study published Wednesday in The Lancet medical journal says women in Nigeria, Myanmar, Ghana and Guinea also experienced high rates of cesarean...

The conspiracy included frauds involving business email, romance scams and schemes targeting elderly people.

Tanitoluwa Adewumi is a third-grader who started playing chess a year ago.

Nigerian officials on Thursday halted search efforts a day after a school building collapsed in Lagos with an unknown number of children inside. The death toll was eight and could rise. As some anguished families protested and sifted through the rubble for any sign of their children, National Emergency Management Agency official Ibrahim Farinloye said workers had reached the foundation...

A three-story building in Nigeria collapsed on Wednesday. The cause of the collapse has not yet been determined.

Emergency crews sifted through debris as night fell on frantic efforts to rescue scores of school children and others feared trapped inside a three-story building that collapsed Wednesday in Nigeria’s densely populated commercial capital, Lagos. At least eight people were confirmed dead and 37 others were rescued alive. Anguished families crowded around the flattened remains of the building, which housed...

A prominent Nigerian nun has blasted the culture of silence in the Catholic Church that has long sought to hide clergy sexual abuse, telling a Vatican summit that transparency and an admission of mistakes is needed to restore trust. In a powerful speech Saturday, Sister Veronica Openibo told Pope Francis’ gathering of the Catholic hierarchy that African and Asian church...

Chicago police said Saturday the investigation into the assault reported by Jussie Smollett has “shifted” due to information received from two brothers questioned in the case, and attorneys for the “Empire” actor blasted reports alleging he played a role in his own attack. Chicago police had arrested, then released the two Nigerian brothers without charges late Friday and said they...

Nigeria’s top candidates on Saturday condemned the surprise last-minute decision to delay the presidential election for a week until Feb. 23, blaming each other but appealing to Africa’s largest democracy for calm. The decision, announced five hours before polls were to open, is a costly one, with analysts at SBM Intelligence estimating an economic hit of $2 billion, plus a...

Lois Fernandez, the co-founder of Philadelphia’s ODUNDE Festival, the largest and longest running African-American street festival on the east coast, has died at the age of 81.

Paul Simon ended his final concert tour under a moonlit sky on home turf Saturday, telling an audience in a Queens park that their cheers “mean more than you can know.”

Upper Darby Mayor Tom Micozzie and Councilwoman Sekela Coles share what they have planned for the annual Upper Darby International Festival.