A federal high court in Abuja has declined the application by Kabiru Turaki seeking to stop the police from presenting the ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have captured two key cities in Congo's mineral-rich east in less than a month after a major escalation in their yearslong fighting against overstretched and weakened Congolese ...

Nigerian lawmakers have approved an additional $200 million for the health sector as part of its 2025 spending plan to offset the shortfall from U.S. aid cuts. Nigeria, ...

Asadu reported from Abuja, Nigeria, and Kamale reported from Kinshasa, Congo. AP journalist Rodney Muhmuza in Kampala, Uganda, Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations and Gerald Imray in Cape Town ...

The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) has engaged 40 contractors to keep the Federal Capital City clean. The Director of the Board, Mr Osilama Braimah, disclosed this in an interview ...

Currently, only about 4% of Nigeria’s annual budget is allocated to the health sector—far below the 15 percent target set by African leaders in the 2001 Abuja Declaration. It's unclear whether ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Nigerian government is in talks with local communities to restart oil production in a region that’s previously suffered environmental damage after oil giant Shell’s ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People walk amid an oil spill in the Niger Delta in village of Ogboinbiri, Nigeria, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo ...

Shell's $2.4 billion sale of its onshore business to a group of local companies was confirmed last week by Nigeria’s special advisor to the president on energy, Olu Verheijen. It marks the end ...