Gabriel Oluwasegun Olanrewaju, a professional boxer from Nigeria, died suddenly over the weekend after he collapsed in the third round of a light-heavyweight fight in Ghana, according to officials.

Nigeria’s central bank sold dollars to lenders to stem an erosion of the naira exchange rate, after a selloff induced by US tariff turbulence. The Abuja-based Central Bank of Nigeria sold $197. ...

American rapper, Kanye West, has urged his colleagues to learn from Nigerian afrobeats artists, Jewish investors, Chinese and Indian tech gurus. In a recent interview with DJ Akademiks ...

The Trump administration should put pressure on the government of Nigeria to stop allowing Islamicists to attack Christians, a Catholic bishop told a congressional committee this week. Militant ...

A Georgia man admitted he was part of a five-person money laundering conspiracy that took at least $150,000 from sextortion victims, then sent proceeds of the scheme to a Nigerian criminal group ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Former Rivers State governor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, says his estranged successor ...

Of Nigeria’s nearly 229 million people, Muslims comprise 53.5%, while 45.9% are Christians. The violence is largely the work of two groups — the extremist Islamist militant Boko Haram and its ...

Bushmills, the oldest licensed whiskey distillery in the world, has just released the oldest Irish single malt whiskey yet, the 46-year-old Secrets of the River Bush. This release, named for the ...

Tinubu declares state of emergency in Rivers State Pipeline vandalism prompts federal intervention Political crisis in Rivers State involves PDP factions ABUJA, March 18 (Reuters) - Nigerian ...

In a post on Truth Social at the time, Trump highlighted the EU’s “nasty” 50% levy on US whiskey. The EU plans to bring in a second set of counter-measures on 13 April, including tariffs on food ...

The Nigerian Senate has explained to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) that Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Kogi Central, was suspended due to gross misconduct rather than any ...