Nigeria

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to quit as he questions his competence to rule Nigeria beyond his current tenure.

Nigerian police on Tuesday briefly detained activists calling for the release of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram jihadists nearly four years ago, campaigners said.

Nigeria’s economy is projected to grow by 2.1 percent this year according to the International Monetary Fund. The prediction which represents 0.2 percent from the 1.9 percent projected in October 2017 was contained in Fund's World Economic Outlook Update, released on Monday. Though, the IMF upgraded its growth forecast for the global economy in 2018 to 3.9 percent, it however downgraded the 2018 and 2019 growth forecasts for sub-Saharan Africa to 3.3 percent respectively.

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari will not seek re-election without considering his state of health as pressure mounts on him to declare his stance on the issue.

The African Development Bank provided a much-needed lifeline at a time when it was very difficult to secure budget support loans from anywhere else, as the country struggled with the 2015-2016 economic recession, the Nigerian Government has said.

Officials in Nigeria have suspended a head teacher of a school and three other staff for meting out corporal punishment to their students.

Kidnappers have abducted two Americans and two Canadians in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna, killing two police officers, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.

The story of a Nigerian Physician, Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye who joined a team of doctors from Texas to perform a special surgery on a baby in a woman’s womb has gone viral on social media.

A Nigerian father slapped her own three-week old baby for being a girl, an action that has led to the baby been hospitalized.

The Nigerian army has announced that it has set free 244 Boko Haram fighters who it says have now repented or undergone rehabilitation and are no more a threat to society.