Nigeria

A church in Owo, Nigeria was subject to a mass shooting this past Sunday (June 5) when assailants opened fire & killed least 50.

The world’s youngest billionaire is reportedly a 9-year-old Black boy from Lagos, Nigeria.

A medical student in Nigeria is speaking out about the day he was horrified to see his friend’s body on the dissection table during anatomy class.  

Popular makeup YouTuber Aaliyah Jay is under fire this week after posting a YouTube video where she made offensive comments after trying Nigerian food. Aaliyah, whose real name is Joy, along with her boyfriend Menelik decided to jump on the ‘mukbang’ TikTok trend of trying ‘exotic’ food from different African countries. They took to the […]

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Rebels from the Boko Haram extremist group claimed responsibility Tuesday for abducting hundreds of boys from a school in Nigeria’s northern Katsina State last week in one of the largest such attacks in years, raising fears of a growing wave of violence in the region. More than 330 students remain missing […]

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian protesters demanding an end to police brutality defied a curfew as gunfire rang out where they were setting up a blockade Wednesday, a day after shots were fired into a crowd of demonstrators singing the country’s national anthem. That disturbing turn drew global outrage. It’s not clear if any protesters […]

Kids never fail to amaze us with their creativity and talents. A new viral video shows a group of creative and resourceful kids all the way in Nigeria recreating the music video for Roddy Ricch’s no. 1 hit “The Box” shot for shot. For example, the kids swap the video’s expensive cars for wheelbarrows of the […]

Fela Kuti was a pioneer of the Afrobeat musical movement whose intense and pointed lyrics made him a target of the Nigerian government. The late musician was born October 15, 1938. Kuti was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti to a minister father and activist father in Abeokuta. In the late ‘50s, Kuti was sent to […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The relationship between a Japanese woman and a U.S. Army captain stationed in Syria started online, through an international social network for digital pen pals. It grew into an internet romance over 10 months of daily emails. It ended with the woman $200,000 poorer and on the verge of bankruptcy after […]

An all new episode of “Braxton Family Values” airs Thursday night and we’ve got an exclusive sneak peek at Tamar Braxton dropping a bombshell about her “special trip” with her new bae. The R&B singer shares with her family that she intends to travel to Nigeria with David to meet his family. While sister Traci wonders if […]

Adewumi and his family fled Bobo Haram in Nigeria in 2017 because of attacks on Christians.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Emergency crews sifted through debris as night fell on frantic efforts to rescue scores of school children and others feared trapped inside a three-story building that collapsed Wednesday in Nigeria’s densely populated commercial capital, Lagos. At least eight people were confirmed dead and 37 others were rescued alive. Anguished families crowded […]