In an effort to break the previous record for the longest cooking session, a Nigerian chefspent 100 hours continuously making meals.According to Guinness World Records, since the chef began her cooking marathon, Hilda Bassey, also known as Hilda Baci...

Nigeria's former deputy Senate president faces up to life in jail in Britain on Friday when he is sentenced for plotting to harvest a man's kidney for his sick daughter.In the first UK case of its kind, Ike Ekweremadu, 60, was found guilty in March a...

Nigeria, which elects a new president on Saturday, is one of Africa's richest and most vibrant nations, but is dogged by corruption, Islamist violence and a cost-of-living crisis.Here are key facts about the country:- Land of two halves -West Africa'...

By AFPGunmen abducted 19 Muslim worshippers after attacking a mosque in the restive northwest of Nigeria, police said Sunday.The attackers stormed the mosque in Maigamji village, in Katsina state, during evening prayers Saturday and carried out the k...

Nigeria's police force said it was beefing up security as the United States ordered diplomats' families to leave the capital Abuja due to a "heightened risk of terrorist attacks."The details of any threat are unknown but residents of the Federal Capi...

Jihadists have killed three policemen and a vigilante in an ambush on the convoy of a local official in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, two militia sources said Thursday.Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters fired a rocket-propelled gr...

Nigeria's main opposition party has won the governorship election in southwest Osun state, the electoral commission said on Sunday, in a major upset against President Muhammadu Buhari's ruling All Progressives Congress.Osun is among eight of Nigeria'...

By AFPThe raid bore all the hallmarks of the Islamic State group.After dividing themselves into three squads, more than a hundred gunmen stormed a Nigerian prison, using explosives to blast though a wall and free dozens of jailed jihadists.But the as...

The Nigerian and German governments signed on Friday, July 1, an agreement in Berlin for the return of 1,130 Benin bronzes from Germany.Nigeria's Ministry of Information and Culture said the joint historic declaration will pave the way for the return...

Gunmen have kidnapped 22 farmers from their fields just outside Nigeria's capital Abuja, local police said Friday, in the latest wave of mass abductions in the country.Heavily-armed criminals known locally as bandits frequently attack rural areas wit...

Illegal baby factories are common in Nigeria, and these factories are part of the broader human trafficking industry.A baby factory is often a small, illegal facility masquerading as maternity homes, hospitals, welfare homes, or orphanages, where it...

Jihadists have killed at least 23 men in Nigeria's northeast Borno state in the latest violence to hit the conflict-ridden region, militia sources said Thursday.Fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) seized the men on Tuesday as...