Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has nominated the former military chief as defense minister just weeks after he was made to step down.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces policy allowing State Department to deny visas to individuals involved in religious freedom violations globally.

Last Saturday, 13 Muslim women and girls, aged between 16 and 23 were kidnapped near their farms in land near a nature reserve that has become a hideout for the jihadists. The gang freed one of them after she told them she was nursing a baby.

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has sought more help from France to fight widespread violence in the north of the country, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday, weeks after the United States threatened to intervene to protect Nigeria's Christians.

Ecobank Nigeria is trying to fend off concerns that it will default on a $150 million bond coming due in February. It wants to buy back that debt, announcing a tender offer on Nov. 27 in response to S&P Global Ratings downgrading the credit to CC and saying it saw an increased likelihood of a restructuring or regulatory intervention.

The federal government has launched its most ambitious public finance reform in more than a decade, unveiling a unified revenue platform