A United States captain, Wren Thomas, who was taken hostage and tortured in a filthy and mosquito-infested camp in Bayelsa State for 18 days after his supply vessel was hijacked by Nigerian pirates, has told Harris County Court in the … read more
A US official today confirmed that a ceasefire deal appeared to have been reached between Nigeria and Boko Haram militants, but said talks to release some 200 kidnapped girls were ongoing. Doubts have been raised since members of the Nigerian … read more
Nigerian terror group Boko Haram is believed to have abducted 40 women in Adamawa State. The mass kidnapping occurred during attacks carried out by the militants in the northern village of Wagga at the weekend, local reports said. The attacks … read more
Ebola had spread from a dying Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, to 19 other people in Lagos, a city of 21 million people. Despite Nigeria being a transport hub for western Africa, with the ebola epidemic out of control in countries a … read more
Footage of a badly burnt woman being berated by a crowd in Nigeria has been watched hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube. The film begins in a blur. An angry mob and a policewoman can just be made out, … read more
Nigeria and Senegal have been declared Ebola-free after completing a 42-day period with no new cases detected. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the end of the outbreak of Ebola in Nigeria today after active surveillance found the country to … read more
Nigeria said on Friday it had agreed to a ceasefire with Islamist militants Boko Haram and reached a deal for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the group six months ago. There was no immediate confirmation from … read more
Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed dozens of people in five attacks on Nigerian villages that occurred after the government announced a cease-fire to enable 200 abducted girls to be freed security sources and witnesses said on Saturday. However the … read more
Relatives of Nigeria’s kidnapped schoolgirls on Saturday dared voice cautious hope of seeing the teenagers finally freed after officials claimed to have reached a deal with Boko Haram militants. Senior government and military officials on Friday said they had struck … read more
Just as their economies had begun to recover from the man-made horror of coups and civil war, the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have been knocked back down by a terrifying force of nature: the Ebola … read more