The Latest Breaking News from Nigeria

As the world becomes increasingly connected, digital fraud has evolved from a local problem into a global one. West Africa, particularly Ghana and Nigeria, is witnessing the rise of “hustle kingdoms” – informal academies that train individuals to carry out digital scams.

At independence, most African states had two legislative chambers – a lower and upper chamber – in their parliament. African leaders saw that as a colonial legacy and as inefficient, so most states removed the upper chambers. Before 1990, only two states kept these bicameral parliaments: Liberia and Nigeria.

It’s the worst such flooding in the northeastern city of Maiduguri in 30 years, authorities say.

Simone, 8, has Down’s syndrome. Unable to find stories that reflected her modern African family, her mother decided to fill the gap, then publishers came knocking

Plastic pollution is a major problem in Nigeria.

Authorities say severe flooding in northeastern Nigeria has left 30 people dead and affected more than a million others

The collapse of a dam in northeast Nigeria caused heavy flooding in the city of Maiduguri that killed at least 30 people and forced 400,000 people to leave their homes.

Severe flooding in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri has claimed at least 30 lives and forced 400,000 people from their homes, officials said Wednesday.

Extreme weather is again striking multiple places around the world, including wildfires in California, a hurricane that threatens Louisiana, drought and wildfires in the Amazon and flooding in Nigeria

Authorities in Borno State rush to provide shelter for residents displaced by the severe flooding.

Six out of nine planetary boundaries for the liveable environmental niche are crossed, as North America and parts of Asia bake, Nigeria and Brazil flood, and Filipinos flee homes buffeted by another intense typhoon. I am thus worried about the people who are not feeling worried about the state of…