The Latest Breaking News from Nigeria

Agriculture is hugely important to Nigeria. It makes up about a quarter of the country’s economy, and almost half of the population are smallholder farmers. Most farm on less than 10 hectares of land.

Flood water from an overflowing dam has destroyed thousands of homes in Maiduguri, the capital city of Borno state in northeast Nigeria, with emergency officials fearing the situation could get worse.

A fuel tanker exploded after colliding with a truck carrying passengers and cattle in northern Nigeria, killing at least 59 people, a rescue agency said on Monday.

Rating agency Fitch recently warned that the rapid spread of the mpox virus in sub-Saharan Africa could add to the fiscal pressures many countries in the region are already experiencing.

Tragic fuel tanker collision in Nigeria claims 48 lives, including cattle, prompting search and rescue efforts in Agaie, Niger state.

Low and middle-income countries generally lack access to renewable energy and rely excessively on traditional fuels like firewood and charcoal. In these countries, 2.6 billion people depend mainly on polluting fossil fuels (for electricity) and traditional biomass fuels (such as wood or charcoal for cooking) to meet their daily energy…

Mother of Jordan DeMay, 17, who died in 2022, says: ‘While no sentence will bring him back, it does give some justice’

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Heineken Lokpobiri said the government wanted to make it clear it was not controlling petrol prices because the sector was deregulated, and added they were working hard to quickly resolve the situation, following which the prices will stabilize.

Two brothers from Nigeria have been sentenced to 17 1/2 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to sexually extorting teenage boys and young men across the U.S., including a 17-year-old from Michigan who took his own life