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More than 800 inmates were freed by heavily armed gunmen who stormed a jail in Nigeria’s Oyo State, raising concerns about how safe detention facilities are in the West African nation where authorities have struggled to stem rising violence. Gunmen have attacked a jail in...

Private jets filled up the runway of the airport in the northern Nigerian city of Kano as members of Nigeria’s elite and West African dignitaries flew in for the wedding of the president’s son and the daughter of a prominent religious and traditional leader. The...

Michael Usifo Ataga, the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, and a director in Super Network Limited, a telecoms firm, has been gruesomely murdered and his alleged sidechic has been arrested in relation to his death. Ataga, who resides in Banana Island, was reported missing on...

An American citizen abducted last week in Niger has been rescued during a high-risk U.S. military raid in neighboring Nigeria, officials told ABC News early Saturday. The mission was undertaken by elite commandos as part of a major effort to free the U.S. citizen,...