Nigeria’s economy grew at a slightly faster pace than expected in the third quarter.
Customers queue at an ATM machine in Lagos, Nigeria, on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. There are more than two million mobile agents operating across Nigeria — one for every 100 people — handling most of the country’s daily transactions and starving the formal banking system of cash.
Two dozen students abducted from a school in Nigeria were freed after more than a week in captivity, but hundreds of others seized in separate incidents remain missing as the West African nation reels from a spate of mass kidnappings.
Belongings scattered at a school following abductions in Papiri community, Nigeria, on Nov. 21.
The Central Bank of Nigeria is poised to extend its easing cycle after softer-than-expected inflation brought it closer to the government’s year-end target.
Paystack, the Nigerian fintech unit of Stripe Inc., sacked its co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Ezra Olubi after some of his old tweets resurfaced, which the company said are not consistent with its values.
Fifty Nigerian students who were abducted from a Catholic school escaped from their captors over the weekend.
A general view of a classroom at St. Mary's Catholic School in Papiri, Agwarra local government, Niger state, on November 23, 2025. Fifty of the more than 300 children snatched by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria have escaped their captors, a Christian group said in a statement on November 23. "We have received some good news as fifty pupils escaped and have reunited with their parents," said the Christian Association of Nigeria in a statement, adding they escaped between November 21 and 22. Gunmen raided early November 21 St Mary's co-education school in Niger state in western Nigeria, taking 303 children and 12 teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria. (Photo by Ifeanyi Immanuel Bakwenye / AFP via Getty Images)
More than 300 students are confirmed missing after armed men attacked a Catholic school in northern Nigeria on Friday, the latest in a series of mass abductions in Africa’s most populous nation.
Students are seen at a Koranic school in Igbo-Ora, on October 12, 2024. (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images) Photographer: OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP
Another group of schoolchildren has been kidnapped in northern Nigeria, in the second such incident this week in the West African nation where attacks by militants have displaced thousands of people.
Mass kidnappings of students has been a recurring peril in Nigeria.
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 security situation.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu postponed a trip abroad to deal with security issues after a spate of attacks, including the abduction of dozens of schoolgirls, the killing of a military general and the kidnapping of churchgoers.
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