Nigerian Government

Latest Stories

Idowu Bello, 56, prepares a meal in her kitchen in Ibadan, Nigeria, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Fortified bouillon cubes are seen as a way to curb malnutrition in Africa as climate worsens hunger

By Taiwo Adebayo - Associated Press

People queue to buy fuel at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited petrol station in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has scrapped a decadeslong government-funded subsidy that has helped reduce the price of gasoline, leading to long lines at fuel stations Tuesday as drivers scrambled to stock up before costs rise. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Drivers line up for gasoline across Nigeria after new president scraps fuel subsidy

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Christiana Eluozu stands outside her house with a damaged roof that she claims was damaged as a result of gas flare belonging to the Agip Oil company in Idu, Niger Delta area of Nigeria, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

The IPOB is not a terrorist organization

By Anthony Ejiofor

In this April 26, 2017, file photo is a Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. Millions of Nigerians were unable to access Twitter after the government enforced an indefinite suspension of the microblogging platforms operations in Nigeria. The Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria said in a statement Saturday, June 5, 2021, that its members have suspended access to Twitter in compliance with a government directive to do so. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

State Dept. slams Nigerian government over Twitter ban, says behavior ‘has no place in a democracy’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Parents of a missing Government Science Secondary School student wait for news on their child in Kankara, Nigeria, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Rebels from the Boko Haram extremist group claimed responsibility Tuesday for abducting hundreds of boys from a school in Nigeria's northern Katsina State last week in one of the largest such attacks in years, raising fears of a growing wave of violence in the region. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigerians anxious after 330 boys kidnapped by extremists

By LEKAN OYEKANMI and HARUNA UMAR - Associated Press

Sorrow: Martha Mark is the mother of Monica Mark, one of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram. The girls are likely facing forced labor and sexual assault, according to some who managed to escape. (Associated Press)

Boko Haram kidnapped Nigeria schoolgirls likely facing forced labor, sexual assault

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Michelle Obama (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Boko Haram leader: Kidnapped girls married, converted to Islam

Associated Press

President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria speaks with The Washington Times on Monday, August 4, 2014. Khalid Naji-Allah/Special to The Washington Times

EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian president using third parties to talk with Boko Haram, free girls

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illustration on the situation in Nigeria by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

ABATI: Nigeria’s offensive against Boko Haram

By Reuben Abati

US says Boko Haram now ‘top priority’

By MATTHEW LEE and BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, Nigeria's top military spokesman, speaks during a press conference on the abducted school girls in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, May 12, 2014. A Nigerian Islamic extremist leader says nearly 300 abducted schoolgirls will not be seen again until the government frees his detained fighters. A new video from Nigeria's homegrown Boko Haram terrorist network received Monday purports to show some of the girls and young women chanting Quranic verses in Arabic. The barefoot girls look frightened and sad and sit huddled together wearing gray Muslim veils. Some Christians among them say they have converted to Islam. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

US flying aircraft over Nigeria in hunt for girls

By BASHIR ADIGUN - Associated Press

In this Twitter photo, first lady Michelle Obama pleads for the safe return of more than 200 girls kidnapped by terrorists in Nigeria.

White House says U.S. rescue team now searching for Nigerian girls

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Shekau

WILLIAMS: Boko Haram, human trafficking must be stopped

By Armstrong Williams

Demonstrators hold banners, Friday, May 9, 2014, near the Nigerian High Commission in London, as they protest the kidnapping of girls in Nigeria. Global outrage against the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian girls by Islamist militant group Boko Haram heated up Thursday, as a social media campaign drew worldwide support. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Pentagon: No drones to help Nigerian girls, but U.S. State Dept. will provide experts

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to reporters at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Kerry announced sanctions on individuals involved in the conflict in South Sudan and spoke about Ukraine, Nigeria, Iran, and Syria. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

John Kerry offers aid to Nigeria in search for missing girls

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Debris from an MD-83 aircraft that crashed while approaching the airport in Lagos, Nigeria, on Sunday, June 3, 2012, is pictured on Monday. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria suspends airline’s license after crash

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press