One of Nigeria's biggest evangelical churches was on to a winner when it set up a football club - backed by millions of dollars and the power of prayer.
A judge in Lagos on Wednesday ordered the confiscation of two multi-million-dollar penthouses in the latest seizure of assets linked to Nigeria's former oil...
“I think of it as the African Mona Lisa,” said award-winning novelist Ben Okri, gazing at the long-lost portrait of a Nigerian princess that recently turned...
Three women set to make history by becoming the first people to represent Nigeria in the winter Olympics arrived in Africa's most populous country Thursday...
Wealthy Londoners are leaving the city as new taxes make it expensive to inherit and invest and as Brexit prompts rich Europeans living in the U.K. capital to...
In the picturesque Barcelona district of El Born, residents can get a better night’s sleep nowadays because garbage trucks pass only when bins in the street...
Some knelt and placed their foreheads to the ground in prayer. Several carried small children. After being stranded in Libya on a failed attempt to reach...
Ibrahim Aminu launched his first clothing line eight years ago when he designed a dress for his sister.
UNESCO’s 2017/18 Global Education Monitoring Report highlights the responsibility of governments to provide universal quality education and stresses that...
Towering over Cape Town’s Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, a clutch of abandoned grain silos has been transformed into Africa’s largest museum dedicated to the...
A top Nigerian official was scheduled to meet the Turkish ambassador Friday after hundreds of rifles allegedly from Turkey made it to the west African country...
Eighteen people drowned in boat accidents in Nigeria last weekend, the emergency services said Tuesday, nearly a week after more than 50 died when an...
At least 33 people drowned after an overloaded boat carrying traders from Niger capsized in northwest Nigeria, the National Emergency Management (NEMA) said...
Britain is considering a request to sell military equipment to Nigeria to help it fight Boko Haram Islamist militants, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said...
In Nigeria, jollof rice isn’t just a tasty West African dish – it’s a national obsession.
Malaysian authorities seized trafficked ivory tusks and pangolin scales worth nearly $1 million over the weekend, airport customs officials said on Wednesday,...
A four-story residential building collapsed in Nigeria's largest city and killed at least eight people, including a child, emergency officials and an...
Nigeria’s former oil minister faces charges only at home but her name crops up in a growing number of international cases that lift the lid on the scale of...
A traditional ruler in Nigeria’s commercial hub, Lagos, has been suspended indefinitely for faking his own kidnapping, the state government said.
Leggy dancers in tight shorts, bottles of Moet Champagne and flashy cars feature in Nigerian pop icon Wizkid’s bling-bling music videos.