With performance, participation and people, cricket in Nigeria hopes to shape people, and their mindset and value system

Nigeria’s powerful state governors dropped their opposition to an overhaul of the nation’s taxes, provided that plans to cut corporate tax and raise value added tax are abandoned.

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A report published on 13 January has given slightly good news for Nigeria’s clergy. The report shows that 11 priests and religious were kidnapped in the African nation in 2024, down from a total of 25 who were kidnapped in 2023.

Oba Otudeko, a former chairman of the First Bank of Nigeria (FBN), has suddenly left Nigeria, TheCable understands. His departure comes in the wake of his imminent arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a 13-count charge of alleged fraud.

The World Watch List, released Jan. 15, found that 3,100 Christians were killed and 2,830 Christians were kidnapped in Nigeria in 2024.

Nigeria's full ratification last year of the Cape Town convention will help the nation reach its goal of becoming the "aviation hub of Africa", according to its aviation minister. Source: Shutterstock Nigeria is inviting developers and operators from around the world to help it develop its airports

Nigeria’s economy has struggled in recent years due to lower oil prices and tough economic reforms, resulting in a severe cost-of-living crisis. Posts circulating on social media claim this has caused Ethiopia to replace Nigeria as Africa’s fourth-largest economy.

West Africa – especially Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos – becomes the world’s hottest winter party destination in “Detty December,” the festive period between December and early January.

Despite four years in prison for blasphemy, Mubarak Bala defends his atheist beliefs but says he keeps a low profile now in the face of threats in his mostly conservative Muslim region of Nigeria.

The capabilities of the Nigerian Air Force have geopolitical implications for combating terrorism and threats of coups in west Africa.

Sharia police in Nigeria's Kano state say they've "mopped up 300 of these boys from the streets" and put them in a camp for "rehabilitation."