Abuja

A cyclist drives pasts a campaign poster for President Muhammadu Buhari in a street

Nigeria postpones 2019 elections warning of crackdown on election tampering

Global Politics

President Muhammadu Buhari said anyone trying to steal or destroy ballot boxes and voting material in the election now scheduled to take place this coming Saturday would be dealt with firmly.

Malala Yousafzai during trip to Nigeria July 2014

Malala, the girl who survived a Taliban shooting, is in Nigeria to support its kidnapped girls

Conflict & Justice
Chibok girl's school uniforms from three of the kidnapped girls.

These photos show the missing Nigerian girls as real people, as individuals

Conflict & Justice
Chibok girl's school uniforms from three of the kidnapped girls.

These photos show the missing Nigerian girls as real people, as individuals

Conflict & Justice
Protesters in Lagos demanding the release of abducted teenage school girls from the remote Nigerian village of Chibok.

How the abduction of more than 200 teenage girls is uniting Nigerian Christians and Muslims

Protesters in Lagos demanding the release of abducted teenage school girls from the remote Nigerian village of Chibok.

How the abduction of more than 200 teenage girls is uniting Nigerian Christians and Muslims

A US team of military advisers is on the ground in Nigeria to help in the search for more than 200 schools girls abducted more than three weeks ago. Fatima Zanna Gana — one of the leaders of Nigeria’s #BringBackOurGirls campaign — says some Nigerians are worried about just what the international presence will mean.

Radical Islamic Group Launches Deadly Attacks in Nigeria

It was a deadly weekend in Nigeria. The radical Islamist group Boko Haram staged a series of attacks that the Nigerian Red Cross says has left more than 100 dead in the northeastern part of the country. The terrorist attacks included shootings and suicide bombings, showing the increasing sophistication of a group which, by some […]

Car Bomb Hits UN Headquarters in Nigeria

Lifestyle & Belief

A car bomb attack on the United Nations offices in Nigeria’s capital Abuja.

Top of the Hour: Bomb Attack in Nigeria, Morning Headlines

There has been a bomb attack this morning at the United Nations building in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. Witnesses tell the Associated Press that one wing of the buildings has been flattened. No word yet on casualties. Islamic militants have carried out recent attacks on the city. The BBC’s Bashir Sa’ad Abdullahi is at […]

The World

Why wasn’t Christmas bomber on no-fly list?

The man who attempted to detonate explosives aboard Northwest Flight 253 had been reported to the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria. Bruce Hoffman, a professor at Georgetown University, says U.S. security still needs improvement.