Tag: Nigeria

Soldiers have opened fire on demonstrators gathered at a protest site in Lagos that has been the epicentre of widespread ...

The governor of Nigeria’s Osun state has escaped what officials call an “assassination attempt” when armed people attacked anti-police brutality ...

The authorities in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, have arrested police officers who attacked protesters on Monday in ongoing demonstrations against ...

An Ogudu Magistrate’s Court on Friday ordered that a 25-year-old man, Yusuf Nasiru, who allegedly defiled his neighbour’s 12-year-old daughter, ...

A man who killed nine women in a case that caused outrage in Nigeria has been sentenced to death in ...

Nigeria has dissolved the special police force at the centre of protests against police brutality. The government said a special ...

Nigerian police have fired tear gas at a protest against police brutality in the capital Abuja. A video of a ...

The Libyan authorities have arrested three suspects for killing a man by setting him on fire, the interior ministry has ...

At least 11 people have been killed in northeastern Nigeria in an attack on a security convoy that was taking ...

At least 25 people, including primary school children, have been killed after a lorry transporting petrol exploded in the city ...