Participating in the strikes raises the risk that the government will be perceived as endorsing the Trump's language on wider sectarian strife, a sensitive issue throughout Nigeria’s history.

A Nigerian presidential spokesman told The Associated Press on Sunday that the United States cannot launch a unilateral military intervention in Nigeria on the basis of its claims of Christian persecution. According to Daniel Bwala, a spokesman for ...

Nigeria’s president is planning talks with President Trump after the American commander-in-chief accused the Western African nation of persecuting Christians and added it to a list of nations subject to penalties for its lack of religious tolerance.

The full list of African countries Nigeria has launch military operation following its recent stopping of military take over in the Republic Benin has been compiled.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The U.S. cannot unilaterally carry out any military operation in Nigeria over its claims of Christian persecution in the West African country, a Nigerian presidential spokesman told The Associated Press Sunday. Such military threat ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he's ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria as he stepped up his allegations that the government is failing to rein in the persecution of Christians in the West African ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian Army soldiers opened fire and killed nine women protesting the army's handling of communal clashes in the northeastern Adamawa state, witnesses and Amnesty International told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The women were ...

The United States airstrikes targeting militants affiliated with the Islamic State in northwestern Nigeria are a major escalation of an offensive that Nigeria’s overstretched military has struggled wi