NIGERIA

The members are among 850 people arrested in the country on charges of links to Boko Haram, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group in 2015.

Despite the global oversupply, Iran has accelerated production as it seeks to recover the output it lost under Western sanctions.

The militant group known as Boko Haram has been terrorizing Nigeria since 2009, killing thousands of people.

Concerns over the national budget have been “very embarrassing and disappointing,” President Muhammadu Buhari said.

An explosion rocked the Central Bank of Nigeria office in Calabar, southern Nigeria, on Friday afternoon after a gas cylinder reportedly caught fire.

While the Nigerian government has proclaimed a vicious insurgency "technically defeated," some are concerned the suggestion for displaced people to return home could be premature.

Switzerland and Nigeria have agreed for the latter to return $321 million confiscated from former Nigerian military ruler Sani Abacha.

Nigeria’s oil refineries have never reached full production due to sabotage and poor maintenance, forcing the nation to rely on pricey imports.

Dozens were reported killed as Nigeria’s military stepped up a campaign against the militant group over the weekend.

The ratings agency placed more than 10 oil producing nations on review for a downgrade late Friday.

The sales of stolen animals at four major cattle markets in the northeast were allegedly helping to finance the militant group’s brutal insurgency.

Heavily armed kidnappers allegedly snatched three teenage girls Monday night from Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School in Lagos.

A senior military officer said the emaciated-looking detainees are now being held at Nigeria’s military headquarters in Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram.

The new group, dubbed the Peoples Mega Party, held its first meeting in the Nigerian capital of Abuja on Tuesday.

An audit ordered by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari revealed nearly 24,000 employees on the government’s payroll did not exist.

A plan to escalate the battle against the terror group emerged from an assessment by the top U.S. Special Operations commander for Africa.

The bombs, which had been seized from militant group Boko Haram, detonated accidentally and were not planted, police said.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said unauthorized revisions had completely changed the 2016 national budget from the document he proposed.

With more than 65 percent of the poll results released Thursday, a run-off vote seems possible.

Despite the recent discussion of a crude production freeze, oil prices remain at very low levels around the world.

Tensions are rising amid a failed military coup, a slew of contentious arrests and one presidential challenger running his campaign from behind bars.