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Dozens of children who were kidnapped by gunmen in north-west Nigeria nearly two weeks ago have been freed. In a video, the governor of Zamfara state is shown with some of the male and female students from a state-run secondary school in Maradun District, BBC News reports. They were seized …

After the attack on a prison center by gunmen on Sunday, at least 240 prisoners escaped, officials from Kogi state in Nigeria said. Nigeria’s prison service said a large number of heavily armed attackers arrived at the prison and fought a fierce gun battle with the guards. Read also: Somalia: …

Three people working on a farm owned by Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo in south-western Ogun state have been kidnapped by gunmen. Ogun police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the abductions. The gunmen opened fire on a vehicle transporting the three, before abducting them and running into a forest, BBC News …

Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has sued President Muhammadu Buhari for violating his fundamental human rights. In a suit filed at the High Court of Abia state, in south-east Nigeria, Mr Kanu is also asking to be paid five billion naira ($12m;£8m) for various damages he has suffered. He is …

Godwin Obaseki, the governor of Edo State in Nigeria has announced that citizens will no longer be able to visit churches or mosques from the second week of September without proof of vaccination. According to Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo state, citizens should also be able to prove that they …

The Nigerian army has announced that nearly 6,000 Boko Haram members have surrendered to the authorities in the past two weeks. These are the commanders, the combatants and their families. The army describes the massive surrender of members of the militant group as the result of the intense military offensive …

Five girls among dozens of students abducted from a secondary school in the northern Nigerian state of Zamfara have escaped from captivity. Gunmen attacked their school in Kaya-Maradun town on Wednesday and seized more than 70 students, most of them girls and a senior member of staff. Parents of the …

In Nigeria, the authorities are very criticized in the aftermath of the kidnapping of 73 students from Kaya high school by armed men. The abduction was the umpteenth targeting schools in a few months. Security has since been stepped up in the village of Kaya and its surroundings to prevent …

Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has sacked two of his ministers in a rare reshuffle. Those affected are the minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Mohammed Sabo Nanono and his counterpart from the Ministry of Power, Sale Mamman. The cause of their removal has not been evoked but a statement from …

The Nigerian military has urged residents of Plateau state not to arm themselves, as local politicians advised a few weeks ago. Last week, Plateau’s parliament said as the security forces could no longer guarantee people’s safety, they should take up arms. But the self-arming decision has not been welcomed by …