HanWay Boards Olive Nwosu’s Debut Feature ‘Lady,’ Premiering at Sundance (EXCLUSIVE)

HanWay films has come aboard Nigerian-born writer-director Olive Nwosu’s debut feature Lady, which is set to world premiere ...
Within Nigeria

A close look at 2025’s most critically acclaimed Yoruba films

Labake Olododo hit cinemas on March 28, 2025. The film is directed by Biodun Stephen and produced by Iyabo Ojo. The story ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Abducted Nigerian schoolgirls rescued China sends spacecraft to stranded crew 4 more arrested in Paris Louvre heist US searching for drone near S. Korea

SOKOTO, Nigeria -- All 24 schoolgirls held by assailants after a mass abduction last week from a school in northwestern Nigeria have been rescued, the country's president announced Tuesday. A total of ...
Fox News

All 24 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls rescued after armed attack in Kebbi, president says

All 24 schoolgirls who were abducted by armed assailants from a school last week in Nigeria’s Kebbi state have been rescued, the country's president announced Tuesday. Gunmen with "sophisticated ...
Catholic News Agency

Nigerian priest: Those responsible for killing Christians, Muslims should be held accountable

Nigerian priest Father Mathias Ashinnoitian Adugba says more must be done to hold people accountable for the deaths of Christians and Muslims in the country. Amid increasing media reports of religious ...
CBS News

50 of 303 abducted Nigerian students escape captivity; remaining children and teachers still missing

Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in north-central Nigeria's Niger state have escaped captivity and are now with their families, the school authority said Sunday, ...
Newsweek

Nigerian School Kidnapping Update: 50 Children Escape Abductors

A group of 50 school children have escaped from their abductors after being kidnapped from St. Mary’s School in Nigeria’s Niger state on Friday, the Associated Press reported. The children, who range ...
UPI

More than 300 kidnapped from Nigerian school, revised report says

Nov. 22 (UPI) --Initial reports undercounted the number of students and staff kidnapped by Nigerian gunmen from the St. Mary's School in Papiri, Niger State, Nigeria. The Christian Association of ...
CBS News

Hundreds of children abducted from Nigerian Catholic school, days after similar crime

Armed men attacked a Catholic boarding school in northwestern region of Nigeria and abducted several schoolchildren and staff early Friday. It's the latest in a spate of abductions in Africa's most ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Nigerian Court Hands Life Sentence to Separatist Leader Kanu

A Nigerian court handed a life sentence to separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu, convicting him of terrorism in a ruling that risks reigniting regional tensions and worsening the nation’s already fragile ...
ABC News

Nigerian court convicts separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu of terrorism-related charges

A Nigerian court has convicted separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu of seven terrorism-related charges ABUJA, NIGERIA -- A Nigerian court on Thursday convicted separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu of seven ...