The President of Chad’s transitional military council General Mahamat Idriss Deby is currently on a one-day official visit to Nigeria, where he has met President Muhammadu Buhari.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's son-in-law is wanted as part of an investigation into an alleged $65-million housing fraud, the country's anti-graft agency said.

The United States, has chided Nigeria over the level of religious intolerance and insecurity in the country.

The Chandler Good Government Index has ranked Nigeria as the third worst governed country in the world.

United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Tuesday participated in a virtual visit to Nigeria, where he met with President Muhammadu Buhari and Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama. Secretary Blinken, President Buhari, and Foreign Minister Onyeama discussed continuing joint efforts to counter terrorism and insecurity, strengthen health systems, support democratic institutions, bolster economic growth, advance gender equality, and boost bilateral trade between the United States and Nigeria. Two fact sheets released on Tuesday by the United States government unveil the gains of U.S.-Nigeria relations:

After being assailed by unrelenting insecurity across the regions of the country and yielding to calls for international collaboration, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday sought the help of the United States government to contain the situation in the country.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks Tuesday with the leaders of Nigeria and Kenya as President Joe Biden's administration seeks to demonstrate an early interest in Africa.

The federal government yesterday rejected a World Bank’s report, which indicated that over 78 per cent of electricity consumers in Nigeria received less than 12 hours of electricity supply daily.

At least 31 Nigerian soldiers were killed when IS-aligned jihadists ambushed a military convoy escorting weapons and overran a base in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, military sources said yesterday.

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Nigeria recorded the third-worst score in the inaugural Chandler Good Government (CGGI) Index launched on Monday in Singapore.

Five security officers including two soldiers were killed at the weekend by suspected separatists in Nigeria’s oil hub of Port Harcourt, according to a police memo seen Monday by AFP.

The federal government has suspended a leading media outfit in Nigeria, Channels Television.

The detained leader of the Islamic Movement, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky has distributed foodstuffs worth millions of Naira to the Zamfara and Sokoto States Internally displaced persons, IDPs, and Christian widows in Kaduna.

Remains of the students found in a village close to Greenfield University, according to Kaduna state security official.

The attacks on security establishments have compounded the problem of insecurity the nation has been grappling with in recent times.

The Nigerian Army says the troops of Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD), on Friday, eliminated 21 Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in the border town of Geidam in Yobe.

KANO, NIGERIA - At least 11 civilians were killed when IS-aligned jihadists invaded a town in northeast Nigerian Yobe state, an official and residents told AFP on Saturday.

Those arrested are being kept in military and Department of State Services facilities in Abuja and other places.

NO fewer than nine fleeing inmates from Nigeria Correctional Centre have been re-arrested in Ghana, myjoynews has reported.

Authorities for Katsina state for north west of Nigeria say dogs and prayer sessions na part of one new security set-up to protect students for schools from criminals.