A coalition of human rights organization under the aegis of Centrum Initiative for Development and Fundamental Rights Advocacy, CIDFRA has called on the United Nations and other international organizations to prevail on the Nigerian government to release the Shia Muslim leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.

The European Union (EU) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have pledged their continued support to strengthening the criminal justice response across West Africa within the framework of a project titled, “Support to West African Integrated Maritime Security (SWAIMS)”.

The gang opened fire on the soldiers who were on foot in a forested part of the Jibia district in Katsina state, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Turkish government has reiterated its call for the handing over of schools linked with Fetullah Gülen in Nigeria.

Ambiguity, tension and possible escalation surround the future of Egypt-Somalia relations due to the latter’s unclear position on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the conflict between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan that it has engendered.

Somali National Army (SNA) backed by Jubaland state forces killed six Al-Shabaab extremists on Saturday in a security operation on the outskirts of Kismayo, a military officer confirmed on Sunday.

Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo today held talks with the leader of Jubbaland regional state, Ahmed Mohamed Islam aka Ahmed Madobe, in the Galmudug state capital, Dusamareb.

The United States has hailed the newly found diplomatic relationship between Somaliland and Taiwan describing it as a tremendous step.

The United States has hailed the newly found diplomatic relationship between Somaliland and Taiwan describing it as a tremendous step.

North African nation Egypt is considering opening up a military base in Somaliland.

Attempts by Israel's advocates to portray my grandfather as a liberal pacifist is a distortion of his legacy.

El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat, have been detained by the Nigerian Government since 2015 after hundreds of his followers were killed by the Nigerian Army in Zaria, Kaduna State.

The United Nations (UN) has appointed Nigeria’s envoy, Ambassador Samson Itegboje, as the Interim President for the General Assembly’s Special Session on the coronavirus pandemic.

The Nigerian government on Monday arraigned 10 suspected pirates in a federal high court in Lagos, the nation’s economic hub for allegedly hijacking a Chinese fishing vessel.

The Nigerian Army has redeployed some of its top generals and senior serving officers.

Two leading petroleum workers unions in Nigeria on Tuesday said 850 oil workers have been sacked by the nation's oil corporation.

Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has been appointed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as a special envoy to head its mediation mission in Mali, a report said Tuesday.

As the population shrinks in many parts of the world, Nigeria – a developing country with a raging young workforce – could become the ninth-largest global economy, drastically changing the world order in 2100.

Gunshots were heard in Maiduguri in the early hours of Tuesday as insurgents’ audacious attempt to seize an Army barracks in the town.

The federal government yesterday led evidence to convince a United Kingdom (UK) High Court to accept its allegation that the Gas Supply Purchasing Agreement (GSPA) between Nigeria and Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID) for a 20-year contract on gas project, was conceived with the full intent of defrauding Nigeria.