Nigerian soldiers have reportedly rescued Lydia Simon, a woman abducted by extremists in Chibok a decade ago while she was a schoolgirl. Simon, five months pregnant, was found in the Gwoza council ...

A popular Nigerian transgender woman was on Friday jailed for six months after a local court convicted her of throwing the local currency into the air, a practice known as spraying, a rare ...

A Nigerian woman who wrote an online review of a can of tomato puree is facing imprisonment after its manufacturer accused her of making a “malicious allegation” that damaged its business ...

ABUJA, April 22 (Reuters) - Six soldiers of the Nigerian army were ambushed and ... UN agency official says Twenty one migrants died and another 23 are missing after a boat carrying 77 people ...

A pregnant Nigerian mom was arrested and tossed in jail for making an online post criticizing a local brand of tomato puree, reports said. Chioma Okoli, 39, is facing up to a year behind bars for ...

According to Nigerian research firm SBM Intelligence, nearly 2,000 people have been abducted in exchange for ransoms this year. However, armed gangs find the kidnapping of schoolchildren a "more ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian soldiers rescued a woman who was abducted by extremists a decade ago while she was a schoolgirl in the village of Chibok, the army said Thursday. Her three ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in New York City’s Times Square to break the Guinness World Record for the longest ...

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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A popular Nigerian transgender woman was sentenced to six months on Friday after a local court convicted her of throwing money into the air, a practice known as spraying.

Backed by the likes of Left Lane Capital and Y Combinator (where it was part of the Summer ’21 cohort as Lemonade Finance), LemFi initially targeted Nigerian migrants in Canada, offering multi ...

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