Nigeria's authorities have officially declared the Lakurawa armed group - which flogs people for listening to music - a ...

Popular Nigerian musician and performer Innocent Idibia, widely known as 2Baba or Tuface, has announced his separation from ...

A Nigerian man has been extradited to the US to face prosecution over alleged sextortion of a minor, which led to the ...

Niger has freed an editor-in-chief arrested after his TV news channel aired a programme critical of the ruling junta, the ...

Two high-profile Nigerian clerics took part in events surrounding the inauguration of US President Donald Trump on Monday.

Nigerians on social media are mourning the death of a woman who was allegedly beheaded by a man reported to be her boyfriend ...

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

The Austrian foreign ministry says a female citizen has been taken by unknown assailants in the military-run West African country, Niger. It confirmed the incident to the AFP news agency and said ...

Niger has cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine ... foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the RIA Novosti news agency. In recent years, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have undergone coups ...