Nigeria's government plans to write to 500 wealthy Nigerians with property and trusts abroad, urging them to come clean about their tax status or risk being being prosecuted and fined. In a statement, ...

Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari and his administration have spent much of the last two and half years since he came to office championing the idea that for Africa’s largest economy to have any ho ...

A teenage suicide bomber blew himself up as worshippers gathered for morning prayers at a mosque in north-eastern Nigeria, killing at least 50 people, police said on Tuesday, in one of the region’s de ...

Babachir Lawal removed from office after allegations that humanitarian aid was illegally diverted to companies he set up Nigeria’s highest ranking civil servant has been sacked by President Muhammadu ...

Eleven people have been shot dead as they made their way home from a village market in central Nigeria. Several others were wounded in the attack in Plateau state - an area which has enjoyed relative ...