Lt. Gen. John Brennan details U.S. military support helping Nigerian forces combat Islamic State and Boko Haram terrorists following strikes that disrupted terror networks.

Nigeria, like Iran and Venezuela, has become a target of the United States’ increasingly aggressive foreign policy under President Donald Trump. The U.S. military launched airstrikes on northwestern Nigeria’s Sokoto state on Christmas Day, claiming that it was protecting Christians from what Trump called “ISIS Terrorist Scum.”

Nigeria will charge several officers over an alleged plot to overthrow President Bola Tinubu after the military acknowledged for the first time that 16 soldiers arrested in October were suspected of planning a coup.

Nearly three years on, Nigeria’s 230m people, especially the poor and the middle class, are still reeling from increases in fuel and food prices. Poverty has risen. But it looks as though Mr Tinubu’s bitter medicine is helping.

The gunmen who abducted more than 150 church worshippers in Nigeria’s conflict-hit northwest are demanding 17 motorcycles as ransom from families.

The U.N. World Food Program warns that over a million people in northeast Nigeria could lose emergency food aid soon without new funding

Community leaders in Lagos say evictions in the name of development have left many residents of this fishing village homeless.

CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali saved two penalties including the first from Mohamed Salah for Nigeria to beat Egypt 4-2 in a penalty shootout for third place at the Africa Cup Nations on Saturday.

BURN says clean cooking offers Nigeria a fast, investable climate solution as new carbon and tax policies boost investor confidence and expand stove access.