Recent News Headlines : Abama - Nigeria

'I SHARE MY HOME WITH 28 REFUGEES'


Emergency officials in Nigeria say more than 40,000 refugees have poured over the border from Cameroon since last October... READ MORE

9th February, 2018 619

'BLACK PANTHER', THE SUPERHERO MOVIE FEATURING AN 'AFRICAN KINGDOM'


She said ''painted just after the end of the Nigerian Biafran conflict, she does symbol this moment of reconciliation and hope for the nation... READ MORE

8th February, 2018 3

WILL MOROCCO ROAR OR NIGERIA WILL SOAR?


Road to CHAN 2018 final Will Morocco roar or Nigeria will soar?... READ MORE

7th February, 2018 26

OIL TANKER WITH 22 INDIAN CREWMEN MISSING OFF BENIN


The International Maritime Bureau said the Benin navy was searching for the Marine Express, which is carrying 13,500 tonnes of gasoline... READ MORE

4th February, 2018 408

16 NIGERIAN WOMEN ARE SAFE AFTER VOODOO DEATH THREATS AND FORCED PROSTITUTION, POLICE SAY


The women reflect a recent wave of Nigerians who have headed to Europe from Benin City, where poverty and traditional witchcraft suffocate opportunity... READ MORE

2nd February, 2018 1678

GUNMEN CROSS FROM NIGERIA, ATTACK CAMEROON BORDER POST


Cameroon refugee crisis graphic tmsnrt.rs 2Djfjx5 The militaries of Cameroon and Nigeria repeatedly clashed over the disputed Bakassi peninsula in the 1980s and 90s... READ MORE

25th January, 2018 107

BOKO HARAM ATTACKS IN NUMBERS - AS LETHAL AS EVER


For years, critics have accused the Nigerian military of not properly equipping its soldiers to deal with Boko Haram... READ MORE

25th January, 2018 595

KIDNAPPED AMERICANS, CANADIANS RESCUED IN NIGERIA, POLICE SAY


Tuesday, while traveling with police escorts from Kaduna city to Abuja... READ MORE

24th January, 2018 4

NEW 360 FILM REVEALS NIGERIA OIL SPILL DEVASTATION


Oil in Our Creeks allows viewers to grasp the havoc wrought by oil spills on Niger Delta communities... READ MORE

23rd January, 2018 666

2 AMERICANS, 2 CANADIANS ABDUCTED IN NIGERIA ARE FREED


Gunmen ambushed the foreigners Tuesday as they traveled from Kafanchan in Kaduna state to Abuja... READ MORE

20th January, 2018 0

AMERICAN INVESTORS AMONG FOUR FREED AFTER NIGERIA KIDNAPPING


Gunmen ambushed the foreigners Tuesday as they traveled from Kafanchan in Kaduna state to Abuja... READ MORE

20th January, 2018 5

2 CANADIANS, 2 AMERICANS FREED AFTER KIDNAPPING IN NIGERIA


The foreigners have been taken to the capital, Abuja, Kaduna state police spokesperson Mukhtar Aliyu said... READ MORE

20th January, 2018 216

TWO AMERICANS, TWO CANADIANS FREED AFTER KIDNAPPING IN NIGERIA


Mukhtar Aliyu, a spokesman for Kaduna state police, said they were freed on Friday... READ MORE

20th January, 2018 0

AT LEAST 10 DEAD, DOZENS INJURED IN ATTACK


The Muna Garage area lies on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in northeastern Nigeria... READ MORE

18th January, 2018 175

POLICEMEN KILLED AS AMERICANS AND CANADIANS ARE KIDNAPPED IN NIGERIA


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... READ MORE

18th January, 2018 36

REX TILLERSON SAYS 'NOTHING HAS CHANGED' BETWEEN AFRICA AND US SINCE TRUMP'S 'S***HOLE COUNTRIES' REMARKS


Photography by Adriaan Louw Design Network Africa Gestalten 2016 2 12 An art piece by South African-born artists Athi-Patra Ruga... READ MORE

18th January, 2018 85

FEMALE SUICIDE ATTACKER AT MARKET IN NIGERIA'S MAIDUGURI KILLS AT LEAST 12


A double suicide bombing at a market in Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri killed at least 12 people and wounded 48 others on Wednesday, residents and an... READ MORE

17th January, 2018 5

NEW BOKO HARAM VIDEO PURPORTS TO SHOW CHIBOK GIRLS


Boko Haram has put out a video that it says shows some of the girls kidnapped from a town in northeastern Nigeria nearly four years ago... READ MORE

15th January, 2018 1786

[PHOTOS] NIGERIA ARMY AVERTS SUICIDE ATTACK BY THREE GIRLS IN BORNO STATE


The Nigerian Army has reported averting a suicide bomb attack in Borno State, the heartland of the Boko Haram insurgency... READ MORE

12th January, 2018 35

NIGERIA ARMY DEPLOYED TO STATES ROCKED BY DEADLY HERDSMEN VIOLENCE


The Nigerian Army has made deployments to three states hit by deadly violence as a result of clashes between herdsmen and locals, who are usually farmers... READ MORE

12th January, 2018 24

NIGERIA HOLDS MASS BURIAL FOR 73 KILLED IN CLASHES BETWEEN FARMERS AND HERDSMEN SEEKING FERTILE LAND


Seventy-three people killed since the start of the year in communal violence between semi-nomadic herdsmen and farmers were buried in Nigeria on Thursday h... READ MORE

11th January, 2018 0

AT LEAST 15,000 CAMEROONIAN REFUGEES FLEE TO NIGERIA AMID CRACKDOWN


Nigerian and Cameroonian officials have met to discuss the refugees and those talks are ongoing, she said, although she declined to give details... READ MORE

11th January, 2018 60

NIGERIA POLITICAL PARTIES MUST SELECT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES BY OCT. 7


Presidential and parliamentary elections will be held on Feb. 16, 2019, marking the end of President Muhammadu Buhari's first term... READ MORE

10th January, 2018 3

CAMEROON SEPARATIST LEADER TAKEN INTO CUSTODY IN NIGERIA


Cameroon separatist leader taken into custody in Nigeria sources... READ MORE

7th January, 2018 1453

BUHARI'S SUPPORTERS CAMPAIGN FOR 2019 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS


On Jan. 20, an office for the organisation of the campaign will be set up in Nigeria's southwest, Shittu said... READ MORE

4th January, 2018 7

2017 'TWEE-TREAT': HOW AFRICANS FOUGHT WESTERN MEDIA MISREPORTING VIA TWITTER


The African E-commerce market is estimated at 24 billion, and it's growing at 25 percent on a year on year basis... READ MORE

4th January, 2018 32

MORE THAN 700 ESCAPE BOKO HARAM: NIGERIA'S ARMY


More than 700 people abducted by the armed group Boko Haram in Nigeria have escaped from captivity, according to a spokesman for the army... READ MORE

2nd January, 2018 902

BOKO HARAM SAYS IT CARRIED OUT CHRISTMAS ATTACKS IN NIGERIA


Later it said not all the money would be spent on fighting Boko Haram alone... READ MORE

2nd January, 2018 431

NIGERIAN WOMEN LEARNING MARTIAL ART FOR SELF DEFENCE


In Nigeria, sexual abuse and harassment is rife and no current statistics as many women are quiet for fear of pervasive victim shaming... READ MORE

1st January, 2018 21

BOKO HARAM CAPTIVES ESCAPE, ARMY SAYS


Nigeria's army claims a recent military operation has allowed 700 Boko Haram captives to escape... READ MORE

1st January, 2018 522

Trending News Headlines : Abama

ENDLESS RAPE AS WAR REFUGE TURNS TO TERROR


They Fled Boko Haram, Only to Be Raped by Nigerias Security Forces... READ MORE

8th December, 2017 7064

SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS WORSHIPPERS AT MOSQUE IN MUBI


Police said a teenage bomber targeted the mosque in the town of Mubi, Adamawa state, as people arrived for morning prayers on Tuesday... READ MORE

21st November, 2017 5412

RED CROSS ADMITS EBOLA CASH LOST TO FRAUD


An investigation by Red Cross auditors has revealed that in Liberia 2.7m disappeared in fraudulently overpriced supplies, or in salaries for non-existent aid workers... READ MORE

3rd November, 2017 5035

A FARMER ARRIVED AT WSU WITH $6,000 TO HIS NAME. NOW HE'S WON $100,000 TO HELP FEED THE WORLD.


Six years ago, Adewale moved to Pullman with 6,000 in his pocket -- money he'd earned from the vegetable harvest at his farm in southwest Nigeria... READ MORE

31st October, 2017 4537

AFRICA'S RICHEST MAN TO INVEST UP TO $50 BILLION IN U.S., EUROPE


Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, plans to invest 20 billion to 50 billion in the U.S. and Europe by 2025, in industries including renewable energy and petrochemicals... READ MORE

17th August, 2017 3606

BOKO HARAM ATTACKS KILLED 400 SINCE APRIL


In neighbouring Cameroon, Amnesty said since April at least 158 civilians died in Boko Haram strikes, a figure four times higher than the preceding five months... READ MORE

5th September, 2017 3158

BOKO HARAM USE OF CHILD BOMBERS SOARS


The number of children, mainly girls, used by the Nigerian armed group Boko Haram as human bombs has quadrupled this year, according to UNICEF... READ MORE

23rd August, 2017 3126

BOKO HARAM RELEASES VIDEO OF PURPORTED CHIBOK GIRLS


Boko Haram released a second video on Friday claiming to show five commanders that the Nigerian government freed in exchange for the 82 Chibok girls... READ MORE

13th May, 2017 2494

BUHARI RETURNS AFTER LENGTHY UK MEDICAL TREATMENT


President Buhari is expected to speak to Nigerians in a broadcast by 7am on Monday, his office said... READ MORE

19th August, 2017 2408

MUHAMMADU BUHARI ADDRESSES NATION ON RETURN FROM UK


Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has addressed the nation after spending more than three months in London for medical treatment... READ MORE

21st August, 2017 2348

MASS NIGERIAN ARRESTS FOR GAY SEX IN LAGOS STATE


Homosexuality, gay marriage, gay groups and displays of same-sex affection are all illegal in Nigeria... READ MORE

31st July, 2017 2336

BOKO HARAM ATTACK ON NIGERIA OIL TEAM KILLED OVER 50


There has been no serious suggestion that Boko Haram is motivated by a desire to control oil in northeast Nigeria... READ MORE

28th July, 2017 2078

CAN AFRICA LEARN ANY LESSONS FROM CATALONIA?


The crisis in Spain's Catalonia region is being closely watched in Nigeria and Cameroon, where secessionist movements have been stepping up campaigns for independence... READ MORE

17th October, 2017 1949

BOKO HARAM ATTACKS BLAMED FOR DEATHS IN NIGERIA, CHAD


Nine civilians are killed in suicide attacks in Nigeria's Maiduguri, while eight troops die in raid in next-door Chad... READ MORE

26th June, 2017 1778

THE BBC IN PIDGIN PEOPLE LIKE IT WELL-WELL


In Nigeria, the largest former British colony in West Africa, Pidgin thrived as more and more people interacted with the colonizers... READ MORE

30th December, 2017 1727

BEYOND BOKO HARAMS REACH, LOVE AND FEMINISM FLOURISH


MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- Boko Haram kidnaps young women and girls, turns them into sex slaves and passes them around to its fighters like prizes... READ MORE

16th December, 2017 1561

CHIBOK GIRLS REUNITED WITH PARENTS AFTER BEING RELEASED BY BOKO HARAM


The Chibok girls released by Boko Haram militants this month are reunited with their parents in the Nigerian capital Abuja... READ MORE

21st May, 2017 1560

AIDS EPIDEMIC: FOR 1ST TIME, OVER HALF TAKING HIV DRUGS


For 1st time, over half of people with HIV having treatment... READ MORE

20th July, 2017 1519

NIGERIA FUEL CRISIS SPAWNS THRIVING BLACK MARKET


I've been on queue since last night, motorist Abednego Abna told Al Jazeera, outside a petrol station in Abuja... READ MORE

29th December, 2017 1482

DOUBLE SUICIDE ATTACK KILLS 15 PEOPLE IN NIGERIA


Suspected Boko Haram assault targets aid distribution point in Mashalari village in Nigeria's northeastern Konduga area... READ MORE

18th September, 2017 1367

'THAT I AM ALIVE TODAY IS A MIRACLE'


ABUJA, Nigeria -- Amina Ali Nkeki was calm as she recalled her two years of torment while held captive by Boko Haram terrorists... READ MORE

23rd December, 2017 1311

DEATHS AS SUICIDE BOMB ATTACKS HIT MARKET IN BIU


However, local officials believe the attacks had the signature of Boko Haram, he added... READ MORE

2nd December, 2017 1285

FOUR SUICIDE BOMBERS KILL 18 IN MAIDUGURI


The first explosion on Wednesday evening took place at a prayer ground in the Muna Gari suburb of the regional capital, Maiduguri... READ MORE

16th November, 2017 1282

THE NIGERIAN WHO COMPOSED HYMNS FROM A LEPER COLONY


Ikoli Harcourt Whyte had lessons to teach Nigeria, Mr Achinivu said... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 1274

NIGERIA MOSQUE TARGETED IN DEADLY SUICIDE BOMBING


Boko Haram's recent attacks in the state had taken place farther to the north... READ MORE

22nd November, 2017 1253

RUSSIA TO BUILD NUCLEAR PLANTS IN NIGERIA


Russia has signed a deal to build two nuclear power plants in Nigeria, as Africa's largest economy seeks to end its energy crisis... READ MORE

1st November, 2017 1245

SUSPECTED BOKO HARAM FIGHTERS KILL 11 IN CAMEROON


Many people fled the village for a camp near Kolofata that houses thousands displaced by Boko Haram violence, he said... READ MORE

26th August, 2017 1220

SUSPECTED BOKO HARAM BOMBERS KILL DOZENS IN NIGERIA


Three suicide bombers detonate explosives near northeast city of Maiduguri in attacks bearing hallmark of Boko Haram... READ MORE

16th August, 2017 1168

NIGERIA'S GROWING TASTE FOR HAUTE CUISINE


This night market serves popular traditional Nigerian dishes in a relaxed and informal environment... READ MORE

1st November, 2017 1167

AMNESTY: SHELL INVOLVED IN NIGERIA ABUSES IN 1990S


Amnesty International has obtained internal documents pointing to complicity by Royal Dutch Shell in crimes committed by the Nigerian military during the 1990s... READ MORE

28th November, 2017 1031


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