NIGERIA

“We need the support of the World Bank for the repatriation of the funds,” Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said.

A recent Pew poll appeared to show vastly differing views toward the role of the Quran in making law.

The African nation’s army tried to cover up the slaughter of hundreds of Shiite men, women and children, an Amnesty International report says.

A severe fuel shortage is behind the move by the Nigeria-based terrorist group, say civilian and military sources in the African nation.

As its economy and population expand, Asia’s third-biggest economy could soon replace China as the main driver of global demand for petroleum.

Some of the Nigerian students abducted April 14, 2014, escaped from their captors. But what happened to the remaining 219 remains a mystery.

A Nigerian government official revealed this week that 347 Shiite Muslims were killed and secretly buried following clashes with the military.

The military conducted the vast operation with Cameroonian troops from the Multinational Joint Task Force, whose mandate is to end Boko Haram’s brutal insurgency.

The extremist group has increasingly relied on its army of child soldiers as it has lost land in its stronghold in northeastern Nigeria, a new report has found.

Chadians must decide whether to re-elect one of the longest-serving leaders in Africa, President Idriss Déby.

A group called “Jahba East Africa” has pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, calling him the “rightful khalifa (leader) of all Muslims.”

Hopes are high that a punishing global oversupply may be approaching a tipping point after nearly two years.

In an online statement released Tuesday, the Nigerian military urged other militants to abandon the Islamic insurgency.

“In the past 16 years, we made a lot of money without planning for the rainy day,” Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said of the opposition.

“This leak is almost confirming our worries,” said Lucas Olo Fernandes, regional coordinator for Central Africa at Transparency International.

The Nigerian security forces have been stepping up their fight against Boko Haram and its allies in the past several months.

“You should know that there is no truce, there is no negotiations,” one of the unidentified masked men reportedly said in the video.

Under President Muhammadu Buhari’s watch, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. apparently failed to remit $4.2 billion to the treasury in the second half of last year.

The mass recruitment is part of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s efforts to curb crime and address a major shortfall in the police force’s manpower.

The meeting marks a continued shift in bilateral relations that faltered under Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan.

Col. Samaila Inusa was found dead Tuesday near a village in northern Kaduna state, where he was kidnapped over the weekend by unknown abductors.