TEHRAN, September 21 - Police in Nigeria recovered $470.5 million in bank accounts related to the state oil company as part of an exercise to recover stolen funds, and the money will be sent to government coffers, the country's police force said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, September 18 - Nigeria has declared a national disaster after severe flooding left about 100 people dead across 10 states, the country's main relief agency said on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, September 11 - At least 35 people were killed on Monday and hundreds injured when a gas tanker exploded in northern Nigerian state of Nasarawa and started a blaze, the state emergency agency said.
TEHRAN, September 09 - Boko Haram militants were in control of a town in northeast Nigeria on Saturday after sacking a military base, in the latest attack that raises questions about claims they are weakened to the point of defeat.
TEHRAN, September 08 - Many people are feared dead after militants dressed in military uniforms carried out an attack on a town in the northeast Nigerian state of Borno, residents and a vigilante say.
TEHRAN, September 08 - Many people are feared dead after militants dressed in military uniforms carried out an attack on a town in the northeast Nigerian state of Borno, residents and a vigilante say.
TEHRAN, September 06 - Cholera has killed 14 people with almost 400 hospitalised in the past week in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, the Borno state health commissioner said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, August 31 - Amnesty International has accused Nigeria’s government of carrying out unlawful arrests and practicing “enforced disappearance,” calling on Abuja to clarify the fate of hundreds of Shia activists taken into custody.
TEHRAN, August 20 - At least 19 people were killed in a Daesh attack on a village in northeast Nigeria in the early hours of Sunday, a survivor of the attack said.
TEHRAN, August 16 - The number of countries switching to national currencies to settle bilateral trade deals is growing in the face of the US weaponization of the dollar.
TEHRAN, August 7 -A blockade of Nigeria's parliament on Tuesday by security forces that prevented lawmakers from entering for up to an hour was done without the presidency's knowledge, said the acting president who sacked the head of the security agency.
TEHRAN, August 4 - In a congratulatory message to Niger on its Independence Day, the president of Iran voiced Tehran’s readiness to enhance ties with Niamey in various fields.
TEHRAN, July 28 - A combined team of soldiers and police on the orders of Governor El-Rufa'i again opened fire on peaceful Shia mourners in Nigeria on 25/7/2018 in Zaria, injuring 4 persons with gunshots.
TEHRAN, July 10 - A court in Niger has sentenced 17 members of the violent extremist movement Boko Haram to between two and seven years in jail, a senior state prosecutor said Monday.
TEHRAN, July 04 - Nigerian police say they have found the bodies of 41 men with their throats cut in a northern area that is notorious as a hideout for criminal gangs.
TEHRAN, June 27 - More than 200 people were killed in violence against farming communities last weekend in Plateau state, central Nigeria, according to a speech by the governor published on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, June 25 -At least 86 people have been killed in clashes over the past days between herdsmen and farmers in central Nigeria, prompting local officials to impose a curfew to contain the fresh wave of communal violence there.
TEHRAN, June 23 - At least five people have been killed and six others injured after Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists launched an attack on a village in Nigeria’s northeast.