Nigeria captain William Troost-Ekong says his team have been left at an abandoned airport for more than 17 hours.
Mostly women and children were on board a wooden vessel that capsized in Mokwa in the country’s Niger State.
The country’s highest food inflation levels in decades have pushed businesses to shutter and forced many to go hungry.
A school scheme to educate poor children and clean up pollution in Lagos brought hope. Now its future is at risk.
Floods are worsening by the year in Nigeria and standard food aid programmes after each disaster are not enough.
Floods have displaced 300,000 people and damaged thousands of buildings, affecting one million people in Maiduguri.
The wooden boat was carrying mostly farmers across a river near Gummi town when the incident occurred.
It’s the worst such flooding in the northeastern city of Maiduguri in 30 years, authorities say.
Collapse of major dam in Borno has caused the state’s worst flooding in decades, forcing residents to flee their homes.
Authorities in Borno State rush to provide shelter for residents displaced by the severe flooding.
Truck carrying people and cattle crashes head-on with tanker in Agaie area in the north-central Niger state.
Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen joins the Turkish side for the season from the 2023 Italian champions.
Fighters from the hardline group attacked Mafa village on Sunday burning down shops and houses.
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