The Kaduna State High Court on Monday adjourned the culpable homicide case against the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat, until March 31.

Authorities in Nigeria’s Zamfara state have declared a curfew and shut market activities after violence marred the return of hundreds of kidnapped schoolgirls to their families, a state spokesman said on Thursday.

For the past decade, criminal gangs in northwest Nigeria have terrorised communities, attacking villages, pillaging, raping, stealing cattle, ambushing travellers and kidnapping people.

Chief of Defense Staff General Lucky Irabor has said that the Nigerian Armed Forces will never in any way leave the peace and security of the nation in the hands of the terrorists.

The Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba Land, Iba Gani Adams, Friday described the current situation of things in the country especially in Zamfara State as a sign that Nigeria is ‘at war’.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday decorated the new Service Chiefs with their new ranks.

India and Nigeria on Friday vowed to enhance cooperation against all forms of terrorism, reaffirming their firm belief that there can be no justification for the menace, the MEA said

Gunmen have freed all 279 girls kidnapped from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria, the governor of Zamfara state said on Tuesday, as one of the victims told Reuters how their abductors had beaten her and her schoolmates with their weapons.

Humaira Mustapha made no effort to wipe away the tears rolling down her cheeks, as she spoke about her two kidnapped daughters.

The Nigerian-Canadian company looks set to commence the exportation of gold in June this year.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that South Africa will move back to lockdown level 1.

Twenty-seven students, three staff and 12 members of their families had been abducted last week by an armed gang.

SUBUBU FOREST, ZAMFARA STATE, NIGERIA - In Nigeria, Friday’s predawn abduction of 317 female students from a government school in Zamfara state was the latest in a surge of kidnappings in the country’s north.

Nigeria emerged out of economic recession in the fourth quarter of 2020.

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Dr Peter Mathuki, the Executive Director of the East African Business Council, who was on February 27, 2021 appointed secretary-general of the East African Community.

In the first formal telephone call with President Uhuru Kenyatta since he took charge, Mr Biden pledged a lasting partnership, and a focus on regional peace and stability, taking advantage of Kenya’s membership of the UN Security Council

Police confirm the abduction of at least 317 girls from school in Zamfara state, second kidnapping in more than a week.

Nigeria will commission $195 million worth of aircraft, boats and vehicles in the next three months to strengthen security in the pirate-infested Gulf of Guinea, Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi said.

Kenya has tapped top-level international lawyers in order to lead the maritime case against Somalia that has been ongoing for more than six years.

South African police are investigating the killing of exiled Rwandan opposition activist, Seif Bamporiki, who was shot dead in Cape Town’s Nyanga Township.