minister has yet to be appointed. Reporting by Felix Onuah, Writing by Chijioke Ohuocha, Editing by

By Felix Onuah, Chijioke Ohuocha2 Min ReadABUJA( Reuters)-Nigeria has introduced custody rules for

By Chijioke Ohuocha2 Min ReadFILE PHOTO: Dr Ngong Cyprian receives his first dose of the Oxford

By Chijioke Ohuocha, Libby George3 Min ReadABUJA( Reuters)-Nigeria’s central bank is halting dollar

By Chijioke Ohuocha, Libby George3 Min ReadABUJA/ LAGOS( Reuters)-Nigeria’s central bank meets on

By Reuters Staff1 Min ReadFILE PHOTO: Nigeria's Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele briefis the media during the MPC meeting in Abuja, Nigeria January 24, 2020.... REUTERS/ Afolabi Sotunde/ File Photo ABUJA( Reuters)-Nigeria plans to launch its own crypto currency, called the “ e-naira ”, in October, its central bank governor said on Tuesday. Nigeria barred its banks and financial institutions from dealing in or facilitating transactions in cryptocurrencies in February. Central Bank Governor

By Reuters Staff1 Min Read( Corrects headline to show 100 feared missing, not hundreds) ABUJA( Reuters)-At least six people have died in Nigeria’s commercial capital of Lagos after the collapse of a high-rise building that was under construction, the state emergency services chief said on Tuesday. The official, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said a search and rescue effort had been launched for survivors of the incident late on Monday. Witnesses say up to 100 people are missing after the luxury reside

ABUJA( Reuters)-Five more students who were kidnapped by gunmen from a school in Nigeria three months ago have been released after ransoms were paid, the school administrator said. About 150 students went missing after armed men raided the school in Kaduna state in Nigeria's northwest in July, the 10th mass school kidnapping since December.... Such kidnappings at schools in Nigeria were first carried out by jihadist group Boko Haram, and later its offshoot Islamic State West Africa Province, bu

ABUJA( Reuters)-Nigeria received its first six A-29 Super Tucano planes, the air force said on Thursday, four years after the United States agreed to sell the West African country the light attack aircraft to fight insurgents. Nigeria is battling rising insecurity, including mass school abductions in the northwest, Islamist insurgencies in the northeast and kidnappings for ransom and armed robberies nationwide. The planes, the first half of an order of 12, arrived in the northern city of Kano on

MINNA, Nigeria( Reuters)-Six of the 136 students kidnapped from an Islamic school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger have died of illness, the school principal told Reuters on Monday. The abductors have demanded a ransom to release the students, kidnapped in May after an armed gang on motorcycles attacked the school in the town of Tegina. Criminal gangs carrying out kidnappings for ransom are blamed for a series of raids on boarding schools in northern Nigeria in which more than 1, 000