World & Nation
Nigeria on Saturday celebrated the announcement by the U.N. health agency that polio is no longer endemic in the West African country.
Sept. 26, 2015
Olympics
Nigeria stunned the U.S. men’s basketball team 90-87 in a pre-Olympic exhibition Saturday night in Las Vegas ahead of the Tokyo Games.
July 10, 2021
Nigeria, already grappling with COVID-19, faces one of its worst cholera outbreaks in years, with more than 2,300 people dying from suspected cases.
Sept. 14, 2021
In the latest school attack in Nigeria, gunmen abducted 287 students as they were about to start classes, according to the school’s headteacher.
March 7, 2024
Nigeria’s government is negotiating “seriously” for the release of more than 110 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls still held by Boko Haram and will exchange more detained members of the extremist group for them if needed, an official said Thursday.
May 11, 2017
When Nigeria’s dictatorship hanged famed author and political activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others--after convicting them of murder in a kangaroo court--the cameras and computers of an outraged world focused on the troubled West African giant.
Nov. 19, 1995
Sports Now
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June 22, 2010
Soccer
Francisca Ordega’s 87th-minute goal pulled Nigeria into a 3-3 tie with Sweden in a Women’s World Cup match on Monday.
June 8, 2015
Three years ago, Nigeria’s finest writer, Chinua Achebe, wrote a brief but important book about his country, “The Trouble With Nigeria,” the most populous nation in Africa.
Feb. 23, 1986
First Nigeria was the darling of this Women’s World Cup, dancing and singing its way to a surprising draw with powerful Sweden, during which Nigeria’s coach, Edwin Okon, knelt to pray after every goal.
June 16, 2015