Chris Stein

During Muhammadu Buhari’s stint as military ruler of Nigeria in the 1980s, Fela Kuti, a well-known Afrobeat m…

Dazed and wearing a blood-spattered undershirt, Blessing Dacodonu sat on the floor of a clinic propped above …

In a sweaty restaurant in Lagos, Ajayi Oluwatosin David, a member of a government-affiliated paramilitary gro…

Factories are closing, dollars are scarce and the country is in recession. Yet Frank Jacobs, leader of a big …

Blogger Musa Azare supported Muhammadu Buhari during his successful run for president of Nigeria last year, w…

In the north, Islamic fighters are defying a military offensive by five countries, while in the south, milita…

Though he grew up in one of Africa's largest English-speaking cities, Alexander De Souza remembers a childhoo…

The clock was running out at the Lagos Under-17 Monopoly Championship, and the pace of play was becoming so f…

They were taken deep into the Sambisa Forest to Boko Haram's stronghold, where the more than 200 schoolgirls …

People fanned out on bicycles and on foot across a remote region of northeastern Nigeria on Friday to notify …

Two and a half years after nearly 300 girls were kidnapped from a school in northeastern Nigeria, the governm…

Arriving late to meetings. Buying imported fabrics. Drinking and driving. Cheating in school. Stealing crude …

Nigeria's president has claimed "mind-boggling" sums have been stolen from the country's oil industry. Just h…

Two and a half years after more than 200 girls were kidnapped from a school in northeastern Nigeria, the gove…

Exactly 36 hours after it left a northern Nigerian town, a freight train brimming with cattle and sheep rumbl…

Secretary of State John Kerry issued a carefully worded warning on Tuesday to Nigeria 's military against com…

The pace and scope of the killing are dizzying. Some 300 members of families blown apart by bombs as they cel…

The last service at the EYN church in Michika started with prayers and ended with gunfire as Boko Haram fight…

One of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram more than two years ago during a mass abduction at a school in Niger…

The people of Nimbo knew an attack was coming. A villager who said he was kidnapped by nomadic herdsmen had r…

In a village somewhere in Nigeria, students bicker over the origins of one of the country's major ethnic grou…

Two years after Islamist militants kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria, a new video purpo…

The last time Manasseh Allen saw his teenage cousin was at a family wedding two years ago. She was a shy girl…

In a city known for violence, Fati Abubakar walks the streets of Maiduguri armed with a camera. Her mission: …