At least 103 people were killed and about 100 others were rescued after a boat capsized in the country's central state of Kwara, police said.The accident occurred on Monday morning in a river in the Patigi local government area of the state, as the passengers...

A total of 25 people were killed and 10 others seriously injured in a bus crash in Nigeria's northern state of Bauchi, the traffic police said. Yusuf Abdullahi, a commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Bauchi, told reporters at a briefing on Friday...

At least 12 people were killed following an explosion from an oil pipeline in Nigeria's southern state of Rivers, the police said. The explosion in the Rumuekpe community in the Emuoha local government area of Rivers occurred as local residents were scooping...

The Nigerian government said 612 people have died and 3,219,780 others have been adversely impacted as a result of flooding in the country since the beginning of the monsoon season this year.Addressing the media here on Tuesday, Minister of Humanitarian...

At least 76 people were killed after a boat capsized in the southern state of Anambra, President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed in a statement.In the statement issued late Sunday, Buhari acknowledged that rescue agencies had officially reported the death toll...

At least 19 people were killed and eight others seriously injured in a road accident involving three vehicles in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja, traffic police said.The tragedy happened as two buses collided with a truck along the Yangoji-Gwagwalada road...

The number of people killed in an attack on a church in southwestern Nigeria has risen to 40, Ondo state governor Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu said.The incident took place on Sunday, Xinhua news agency reported.Sixty-one others wounded in the brutal attack...

More than 100 people have been killed following an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in Nigeria's southern state of Imo, official and local sources said.The explosion occurred late Friday at the illegal oil refinery in Egbema local government area, a boundary...

At least three people were killed and 19 others were injured when an explosion hit east Nigeria's Taraba state, local police said. The incident happened on Tuesday at a crowded restaurant in the Irawe town of the state, said Usman Abdullahi, the police...

Nigerian police on Thursday confirmed two police officers and five civilians were shot dead in a suspected robbery attack in the country's southeastern state of Edo.A police spokesperson said that the gunmen attacked four banks and a police divisional headquarter...

The Nigerian government has lifted the ban on Twitter, imposed in June last year, saying the micro-blogging platform has agreed to set "a legal entity" in the west African nation during the first quarter of this year.The Nigerian government had indefinitely...

At least 58 people were killed by armed bandits who attacked villages in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state, an official said. Ibrahim Bello Zauma, a spokesperson for the governor of Zamfara state Bello Matawalle, told Xinhua news agency that the attacks...

At least 16 people have been killed after the bus in which they were travelling collided with a truck on a highway in Nigeria's Bauchi state, the police said on Monday.The accident took place in Bambal village on Sunday evening, Yusuf Abdullahi, commander...

At least 35 people were killed in an armed attack in Nigeria's state of Plateau, a police source said.A police source told Xinhua news agency on Wednesday that the attack took place in the Yelwa Zangam village.Simon Lalong, governor of the Plateau state,...

At least 88 people were killed and several others injured following attacks by bandits in Nigeria's northwestern state of Kebbi, police confirmed. The bandits launched attacks on eight different communities in the Danko-Wasagu local government area of the...

Eighteen people were killed and 21 others injured when members of the Boko Haram terror group attacked Nigeria's northeastern town of Damasak earlier this week, wreaking havoc in the area, a top official said.Babagana Umara Zulum, governor of the restive state...

At least four people were killed and eight others injured when two cars exploded in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, according to the Nigeria delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross.The incident occurred in Dikwa, a town located...

Nineteen people were killed in a multi-car crash in a Nigerian village, police said on Monday.Seven people were hurt on Sunday in the accident at Dinyar Madiga village, about 85 km away from the Kano metropolis, said state Commander of the Federal Road Safety...

At least 50 people have been killed and 70 others injured after a fuel tanker exploded in Nigeria'a Benue state, authorities said on Tuesday.Eyewitnesses said the petrol tanker flipped over when the driver was trying to dodge a bump in the road and exploded...

At least 30 people died and 42 were injured in a triple suicide attack in a restive area of northeastern Nigeria, officials said on Monday.The attacks were carried out on Sunday evening in Mandarari in Borno, which borders Chad, Niger and Cameroon.Three...