1. FBI bust of Nigerian email fraud shows evolving scam tactics  Quartz Africa
2. US names Nigerians in massive fraud investigation  BBC News
3. Feds indict 80 people in massive web of scams tied to Nigerians  CNN
4. US charges 80 people, mostly Nigerians, in $46m internet scam  Aljazeera.com
5. Nigerian scammer FBI bust: 80 defendants in US, Nigeria charged in cyberfraud conspiracy to steal millions  WLS-TV
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) Joseph Kalu makes his way on his motorbike past the frustrated motorists blaring their car horns in the heavy traffic in Lagos, Nigeria's ...

US prosecutors charged 80 people -- mostly Nigerians -- in the widespread conspiracy that defrauded $6 million from businesses and vulnerable elderly women ...

At least 130 Nigerian refugees who fled the Boko Haram insurgency have been flown back from Cameroon in the first phase of a voluntary repatriation exercise ...

The Abagena camp in the city of Makurdi was supposed to be a refuge for the people, but most people don't feel safe here anymore. A sharp increase in rape of ...

The U.S. Justice Department makes a major bust on a business email scam ring that targeted citizens.

KANO, Nigeria—Addau Saidu weaved his motorbike between lanes crowded with bright yellow kekes, the three-wheeled cabs that ferry people back and forth ...

At independence in 1960, Lagos had an estimated population of 763000; today it is about 13 million. Together with Lagos state, the population reaches 21 ...

Nigeria is restructuring its police force to tackle rising insecurity by acquiring modern equipment, recruiting new staff and building community intelligence, ...

A group of Nigerians stole millions from US companies and individuals by sending fake emails to businesses and using romance scams, according to the FBI.

Faced with the prospect of a weakening naira, the Central Bank of Nigeria is digging out its 2015 playbook to stem the currency's decline. After losing out then, ...

The color and flair of traditional ceremonies give brides and grooms a way to express a vibrant cultural heritage.

Nigeria is on the verge of being declared polio-free, which would mean the virus has been eradicated across Africa. Wednesday marks three years since ...

Jumia Technologies AG has identified improper transactions at the Africa-focused online retailer's Nigeria business that amounted to as much as 4% of ...

Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled a cabinet dominated by politically connected loyalists, in a sign that Nigeria's president intends to push harder on a series of ...

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has instructed the country's central bank to stop providing foreign currency for food imports, ...

Four-time Women's Africa Cup of Nations winner Ifeanyi Chiejine dies aged 36 after a long illness.

From accusations of cabals, to threats of prosecuting everyone involved, Nigerians still don't know how a $9bn debt happened.

Jumia Technologies AG has identified improper transactions at the Africa-focused online retailer's Nigeria business that amounted to as much as 4% of ...

Nigeria has become the first country to approve open cultivation of genetically modified (GM) Bt cowpea, according to a report by the International *Service* for the ...

Two football associations in West Africa are mourning two ex players. The Ghana Football Association, GFA; on Thursday confirmed the death of Manuel Junior ...

Nigeria's challenges are multi-faceted, fundamental, and reach from one end of the country to the other. Over the past week, following another violent clash with ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria to block food importers' requests for foreign currency in a bid to boost local agriculture in ...

Former Nigeria Super Falcons footballer Ifeanyi Chiejine has died in Lagos at the age of 36.

We live in a time where sexuality or gender identities that do not fit with the “norm” are considered unAfrican. (AP) · Comments. “If you haven't come out to ...

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc will consider acquisitions outside its home market as Nigeria's biggest lender by market value seeks to expand on the rest of the ...

A British judge has ordered the Nigerian government to pay $9bn in assets to a small private company. The firm, P&ID, had reached a deal with the Nigerian ...

A priest in the Enugu state of Nigeria reportedly escaped a murder attempt at the hands of gunmen who shot up his car just weeks after the killing of another ...

Nigerian central bank moves to push banks to increase lending will be a damp squib, meaning an interest-rate cut is in prospect, says John Ashbourne, senior ...

The Nigerian Men's Basketball Team is the top-ranked team in Africa and went undefeated while qualifying for the upcoming FIBA World Cup, but according to ...

Tobi Aworinde and Oluwatobi Akindele The United States Department of Justice has indicted 80 individuals, 78 of whom are Nigerians, accused of inv...

The spokesperson says Zakzaky was whisked away to an undisclosed location after his arrival in Abuja. He is expected to be returned into custody of the ...

Nigerian stocks extended their rally on Friday to a three-week high following President Muhammed Buhari's inauguration of cabinet ministers, boosting hopes for ...

Nigeria were the first country to qualify for the 2019 FIBA World Cup, and they're on the brink of being the first team out, before the event even begins.

Over the course of the past month, the voice on Google's Maps *service* in Nigeria has sounded more, well, “Nigerian.” Directions and local street names, ...

The source said Adamu was deported Friday last week by road through Lagos.

Nigerian freight logistics startup Kobo360 has raised a $20 million Series A round led by Goldman Sachs and $10 million in working capital financing from ...

The Nigerian president directed the military to hunt down the perpetrators of the attack, which local officials attributed to the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.

25-year-old David Adedeji Adeleke known by his stage name, Davido, has made an audacious prediction on YouTube relative to views for his new musical ...

Four Nigerian troops were killed on Sunday, August 18 in an ambush in Borno state carried out by fighters suspected to be from Islamic State West Africa ...

By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews. Global wild poliovirus total. Officially this week, the global total wild poliovirus (WPV1) cases are double what they were ...

The police had in early August made public demand for the army to come clean on the whereabouts of the kidnapper and also demanded justice for their slain ...

A woman who was videotaped beating a 10-year-old boy before locking him in a dog cage has been arrested in Lagos, a police spokesman told CNN Thursday.

Nigeria may appear to have relatively low debt to GDP, but its debt *service* costs constitute a very large fraction of total government spending, and recent ...

Kellumi was abducted by Boko Haram fighters when he was 14. Among the killings he committed after being pressed into the ranks of the infamously brutal ...

Nigeria's equities market traded in positive territory for four out of five trading sessions this week. To assess the performance of Nigeria's equities market this ...

English News and Press Release on Nigeria about Protection and Human Rights and Safety and Security; published on 23 Aug 2019 by ECHO.

Counsels others to seek Indian-owned companies for outsourcing An international firm, Dynamics Intelligence, has shut its offices in Nigeria, ...

Tensions escalate as supporters of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria demand the release of their leader Ibrahim Zakzaky.

LAGOS: Seventeen people were killed when a passenger bus collided with an oncoming truck in central Nigeria, a road safety official said Friday. The.

Nigeria's government has taken the controversial decision to ban a pro-Iranian Shia group, accusing it of unleashing violence and being an "enemy of the state".

Nigeria is set to mark three years since it saw its last case of polio on Wednesday – an important landmark on the road to official eradication of this deadly ...

The Nigerian Conservation Foundation has said that only about 300 elephants remain in the wildlife in Nigeria. Mr Oladapo Soneye, Head of Commun...

National Association of Nigerian Students is calling for the expulsion of South Africans and protests at South African owned businesses.*

Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has said that calls for separation and dismemberment of Nigeria is threating the unity of the country.

Adeleke Adeleye stands in front of a bank of whirring printers spinning out dozens of envelopes a minute in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos. His stationery ...

Uzoma Dozie is one of Nigeria's leaders in the financial sector and was the last Group Managing Director of Diamond Bank, Nigeria. During his tenure at ...

As Nigeria and South Africa seek ways to end the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in that country, the Nigeria Union South Africa on Wednesday annou...

The ban will target politicians who "operated with impunity at the expense of the Nigerian people and undermined democratic principles and human rights."

They held a traditional Nigerian ceremony before the customary "white wedding."

Videos of the incident on social media showed how despite running to seek shelter in the hall where the event was slated, he was pursued and pulled back and ...

The challenge of producing cement - a process that requires huge amounts of energy - can be a taxing one in Nigeria where power cuts are common. Nigeria's ...

Homonyms are words that are spelled or sound alike but have different meanings. The word “bow,” for example, can mean the front of a ship, a wooden stick, ...

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) Lawmakers in Nigeria's Ondo state have postponed sessions indefinitely after a snake was found in their chamber, a spokesman for the ...

Ten Turkish sailors who were kidnapped last month off the coast of West Africa have been released, according to reports in Turkish state media. The 10 men ...

Former Nigeria coach Samson Siasia vows to clear his name following a decision by Fifa to ban him for life from all football-related activities.

The full list of Nigerians indicted by the US government.

Ade Adesomoju, Abuja. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), said on Thursday that the Federal ...

The imprisoned leader of a banned Shia Muslim group in Nigeria has been flown to India for medical treatment. A court recently granted him medical leave after ...

Fifa bans former Nigeria player and coach Samson Siasia for life after finding him guilty of match-fixing.

Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja The Federal Government through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has increased the tariff payable by power co...

The full scholarship will be available to two Nigerians every year for life, according to the LNI that also added that the scheme will help strengthen the ...

There are three levels of heat in the spice rubs at Brooklyn Suya, starting with mild, which is in fact hot. Not too hot, just enough to open the pores and bring a ...

Pangolins have long been hunted for food and traditional medicine. They are traded openly in bushmeat markets in Nigeria and neighboring Cameroon.

Nigeria's state oil company plans to partner with a private refinery under construction on the shores of Lagos to turn the oil-producing country into a fuel supplier ...

Belgium's Genk sign Nigeria international forward Paul Onuachu from Danish club Midtjylland.

Making online purchases in Nigeria could soon come with a tax bill. As part of plans to raise more revenue to fund a record budget, Nigeria's government is ...

The fledgling mobile money market in Nigeria is about to get a major shake-up. MTN Nigeria, the country's largest telecoms operator, has been granted a “super ...

By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net. The Nigerian national team landed in China ahead of the 2019 World Cup. The team traveled to China after securing ...

Young promising Nigerian billionaire Obinwanne Okeke has allegedly been arrested by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for conspiracy to commit ...

The saying that if you give a hungry man a fish, you will feed him for a day but if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for life is so true for eight teens from ...

Secret military graveyards in Nigeria's northeast hold the bodies of more than 1000 soldiers killed in attacks by Islamist groups, a picture at odds with a war ...

The construction workers were captured by unknown gunmen, amid a wave of abductions in the country.

Ten years after the start of a violent insurgency in north-east Nigeria plunged the country into a humanitarian crisis that is “still far from over”, the United Nations ...

Legit.ng News ☆ The personal assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on new media, Bashir Ahmad, has cautioned against tagging Nigerians of Igbo ...

A certain accommodation policy led to about 70 per cent of students leaving the campus to places in town and Ile-Ife town is not really a safe place and this has ...

Informants have penetrated inaccessible areas occupied by the ISIS-linked sect, vaccinating many of the 66000 children in the northern state of Borno.

Shoprite is feeling the pinch of troubled economies in key markets. Retail group Shoprite that operates in 15 countries in Africa, this week released its results for ...

Nigerian fintech firm Carbon — an early-stage financial services startup based in Lagos — has posted on its website financials audited by KPMG. This comes ...

Islamic State published a series of images that it said were from an ISWAP attack on a military base in Nigeria's northeast Borno state.

WhatsApp was used in an increasingly sophisticated political way by the two main presidential candidates, Buhari and Atiku.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4dfVgFsjQc&feature=youtu.be The Critics Company is a collective of Nigerian teen afrofuturist filmmakers who make ...

Femi Adeyemo of Arnergy, says solar energy could be one answer to Nigeria's numerous power cuts.

Nigerian stocks extended their rally on Friday to a three-week high following President Muhammed Buhari's inauguration of cabinet ministers, boosting hopes for ...

The 43 Nigerian Ministers under President Muhammadu Buhari's second administration have all been assigned their portfolios. For an analysis of the list and ...

The leader of the secessionist Indigenous People of Biafra is Jewish, as are many members, and that's putting the community at greater risk of attack.

Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Wednesday, urged Nigerians to be ready at all times to share opinions with...

It may be a new kid on the block, but MTN Group Ltd.'s Nigerian unit has become the most valuable company on the Lagos stock exchange. Three months after ...

Busola Dakolo said she had been expecting to hear from the police. Three weeks earlier the photographer had filed a case against the flamboyant Nigerian ...

A Sugar Land man is facing federal prosecution after he was accused of assaulting one of two Immigration Customs Enforcement officers carrying out his ...