Nigeria

The governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has suspended his reelection campaign temporarily following a fatal accident in the country's commercial center on Thursday. A train collided with a public bus, resulting in the…

Muhammed Bazza has been queueing for petrol in the blazing sun for four hours, while Alexander Okwori has spent the last two waiting at an ATM. Bazza said he had woken up at 4:30 am to try to beat the petrol queues, but it didn’t work –…

The National Gallery of Art (NGA), the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum held a joint ceremony Tuesday in Washington, DC, to mark the return of 31 Benin…

The death toll in an explosion that rocked the city of Kano in northwest Nigeria has risen to nine, authorities say. Earlier, Kano's Police Commissioner, Sama'ila Shu'aibu Dikko said the explosion was from a gas cylinder that went off…

Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry apologized Thursday for the manhandling of a Nigerian diplomat and announced it had launched a formal investigation of the incident. Nigeria earlier this week recalled its ambassador to Indonesia and summoned…