Italian prosecutors are investigating the deaths of 26 Nigerian women – most of them teenagers – whose bodies were recovered at sea. There are suspicions that...
At least 15 million teenage girls worldwide have been forced into sex – often by partners, relatives or friends – yet only one in 100 sought...
Abdulsalami Abubakar, former military head of state, says Nigeria loses $13.7 billion annually as a result of farmers-herdsmen conflicts in Benue, Kaduna, Nassarawa and Plateau states....
The Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, has said President Muhammadu Buhari is aware of the reinstatement of a former Chairman of the...
Africa needs 11 million more doctors, nurses and teachers by 2030 to prevent a “social and economic disaster” that could propel millions to migrate, the United...
A devout Christian who was thrown off a university social work course after being accused of posting “derogatory” comments about gay and bisexual people on a...
At least eight soldiers were killed in heavy fighting when Boko Haram raided a military camp and looted food from villagers in northeast Nigeria, a military...
The New York Times interviewed 18 girls who were captured by militants in Nigeria and sent into crowds to blow themselves up. Here are their stories....
Many Ghanaian children under the age of five suffer the irreversible effects of malnutrition in their critical first 1,000 days of life. This is the time...
(Photo: Girls sit in a dilapidated classroom in Maiduguri, Nigeria, 2012. Credit: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images) Nigeria’s government recently acknowledged for the first time that...
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered his disengagement of Abdulrasheed Maina, a fugitive former federal official who was declared wanted and somehow regained a top position in the...
I have been following the news and reading the accounts of women coming forward to talk about being assaulted by Harvey Weinstein and others. I had...