ABUJA, Nigeria — Dozens of women and young girls have been unlawfully detained and abused in Nigerian military detention facilities after escaping captivity by Boko Haram extremists in the country’s ...

Nigeria's small-scale fishers and women traders face twin threats of piracy and climate change - and a government with no clear plan to help.The first part of this series captured the stories of ...

Many communities have thrived for years on the peninsula and islands in the lagoon around Nigeria's crowded commercial capital Lagos. But the last decade has seen a violent shift, as thousands of ...

Fati wondered if her life was over. Nigerian soldiers surrounded the Lake Chad island village where Islamist insurgents held her and many other women captive. Shells ...

Details about the Nigerian Navy’s journey from colonial roots to modern commands, highlighting its history, structure, and ...

When she ran for governor of Nigeria’s Kogi state in 2019 gunmen shot at Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s cars, her party’s offices were burned down and her followers were beaten and killed. People called ...

The U.S. president, claiming widespread persecution of Christians in Africa’s most-populous country, seeks a military solution. Yet even as West Africa generally confronts Islamic extremism, nations ...