In recent years, a rather troubling narrative has continued to gain traction across Nigeria and parts of West Africa .

Thirty-two years after the June 12, 1993, election crisis, which led to the annulment of the presidential election believed to have been won by the late ...

Nigerian Ogoni activists rejected on Friday a posthumous forgiveness for nine members of their community who were executed by ...

A wave of outrage swept across Nigeria on Friday as several ethnic groups, activists, and civil society organizations rejected President Bola Tinubu’s ...

Nigeria's Ogoni activists on Friday rejected a posthumous pardon for nine members executed three decades ago by a military ...

At the time, Nigeria’s political history was marked by moments of turbulence, courage, and sacrifice and among the most ...

The latest Most Neglected Crises report on world’s most invisible humanitarian emergencies lists African nations first.

In Nigerian politics, there has long been an informal understanding: presidential appointments should carefully balance the country's many ethnic and religious differences. Today, there are growing ...

Since the return of democracy in 1999, the major parties had always put ... AFP via Getty Images The rich traditions of Nigeria's many ethnic groups are often celebrated, but tensions between ...

Since the return of democracy in 1999, the major parties had always put ... The rich traditions of Nigeria's many ethnic groups are often celebrated, but tensions between those groups have ...

The musical centres on a patriarch who, influenced by his mother’s traditionalist beliefs, marries four women, each from one of Nigeria’s major ethnic groups: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, and South-South.

Nigeria inherited a colonial legacy that divided its multi-ethnic population into regions often polarised by ethnicity and religion. The three major ethnic groups- Hausa in the North, Yoruba in ...