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

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.

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 nominated the former military chief as defense minister just weeks after he was made to step down.

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.

Nigeria’s oil and gas industry is losing billions of dollars annually to crude evacuation challenges, with operators now spending as much as $12 per barrel just to move crude from fields to export terminals,

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Dec 8 - Nigeria's government has rescued 100 schoolchildren abducted last month from a Catholic school in Niger state, a Christian group said on Monday after one of the country's biggest mass kidnappings in recent years.