Young designers from across Africa, Europe, and the UK showcased their work on Saturday at Fashion Finest Africa’s Epic Show ...

In Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, an emerging crop of young comics are leveraging social media to create video content that makes people laugh – and makes money.

In Nigeria and across West Africa, passengers often travel on the back of large trucks or even on their roofs, with little to no safety measures. Some 50 cattle were also burned alive in the crash ...

Buhari is a Muslim from Nigeria’s poorer North, while Jonathan hails from a Christian and animist South that is rich with oil. After Jonathan’s victory in 2011, amid accusations of vote ...

Africa Purchase Licensing Rights Macdonald Dzirutwe Thomson Reuters MacDonald leads a team of reporters in Nigeria that covers energy, politics and economic news in Africa's biggest oil producer.

A 61-year-old civil engineer was supervising a digging project on a farm in southern Nigeria when five young men carrying AK-47s stormed the place and dragged him into the bush. For five days, the ...

Nigeria beat USA in an Olympics exhibition game. It was one of the most lopsided losses in Olympic basketball history: Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony and Team USA thrashed the Nigerian men’s ...

Speaking at the landmark event held on Africa Day at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Sunday, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment Dr Jumoke Oduwole, announced that ...

Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, has one of the world's lowest tax-to-GDP ratios, at 10.8%, forcing the government to rely on borrowing to fund the budget.

Arrests of LGBTQ people are common in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, where people can face up to 14 years in prison under the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act.

At the end of May, African start-ups had raised over $1bn, which compares favourably to 2024 ($750m over the same period), for instance. Also encouraging is the fact that start-ups in Africa have ...

Nigeria has 18.5 million out-of-school children, with Kano State accounting for 1.9 million, the highest rate in the country, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in a 2022 survey.