Stanley Nwabali saved two penalties, setting up Ademola Lookman to score Nigeria`s winner in a 4-2 shoot-out victory over Egypt and seal third place at the Africa Cup of Nations...

Morocco reached their first Africa Cup of Nations final since 2004 as Yassine Bounou`s penalty heroics sealed a 4-2 shoot-out win over Nigeria after a 0-0 semi-final draw...

Victor Osimhen and Akor Adams were on target as Nigeria booked their place in the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations with a deserved 2-0 victory over Algeria...

At least 30 villagers have been killed while several others were abducted by gunmen who raided a village in northern Nigeria`s Niger state, police said Sunday, the latest in a cycle of deadly violence in the conflict-hit region...

Anthony Joshua, on Dec. 19 in Miami.Carmen Mandato / Getty Images for NetflixBritish heavyweight and Olympic gold medalist Anthony Joshua was riding in a speeding Lexus and survived a crash Monday morning in Nigeria that killed two others, authorities said...

Flip-flops belonging to worshippers are seen following a deadly bomb explosion at a mosque in Maiduguri, Nigeria, on Thursday...

The photo shows released children who are pupils at St Mary`s co-educational boarding school in rural Papiri, Niger state, Nigeria, on December 21, 2025...

The dormitories of St. Mary`s Catholic Primary and Secondary School after gunmen abducted children and staff in Papiri, Nigeria, on Friday...

File photo: Nigerian police deployed in June 2021 PIUS/UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images More than two dozen schoolgirls have been abducted and one staffer has been killed after gunmen attacked a high school in northwestern Nigeria, police said in the region...

Nigerian troops patrol the streets of the remote northeast town of Baga, Borno state...

A member of security forces stands guard outside a court in the northern city of Kaduna, Nigeria...

A police officer stands next to boxes of expired AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines as they are destroyed by a bulldozer, in Abuja, Nigeria, December 22, 2021...

A Nigerian police armored personnel carrier is parked at the scene of violent attacks at Shasha Market in Ibadan, southwest Nigeria, on February 15, 2021...

Security forces are pictured as smoke is seen in the background during a protest in Abuja, Nigeria...

A protester faces security forces during a demonstration in Ouagadougou on November 27, 2021...

This file photo shows Nigerian Shia scholar Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky following his release from prison on July 28, 2021...

Nigerian soldiers and police officers stand at the entrance of a school in Mando, Kaduna state, on March 12, 2021, after a kidnapping...

This file photo shows a member of Nigeria’s security forces standing guard outside a court in the northern city of Kaduna...

This file photo shows the Nigerian military riding on their truck as they secure the area where a man was killed by suspected militants during an attack around Polo area of Maiduguri, Nigeria February 16, 2019...

This photograph, taken on February 10, 2020, shows trucks burnt out by suspected members of the so-called West Africa Province (ISWAP) branch of Daesh during an attack in the village of Auno, in Nigeria’s Borno State, on February 9, 2020...

Sheikh Zakzaky supporters in south West Nigeria and members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria held a press conference and asked the Nigerian government to release religious leader in view of his deteriorating health condition...

Women sift through the remains of a market blown up during an attack on September 20, 2018, in Amarwa, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Nigeria’s Maiduguri...

The screen-grab image taken from a video released on January 2, 2018 by the Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group shows the militants during a Christmas Day attack on a military checkpoint in the village of Molai on the outskirts of the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri...

People internally displaced by violence try to climb a truck, protesting food shortages and an alleged diversion of aid supplies meant for them, at a camp in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, on June 27, 2019...

People walk past a rickety truck overloaded with tomatoes in a sparsely attended Mile 12 Market in Lagos, Nigeria, April 6, 2020...

Mozambican soldiers patrol the streets after security in the area was increased following a two-day attack by militants, in Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique, on March 7, 2018...

Chadian soldiers with the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) gesture while patrolling in Monguno, Nigeria, on December 15, 2019...

The Nigerian army has opened fire on protesters demanding the release of top Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, who has been held for four years on trumped-up allegations...

 Over than 20 million people are at risk from famine in war torn Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and the northeast of Nigeria, the UN warned on Wednesday...

Prolonged conflicts and droughts have left an unprecedented 81 million people needing food aid in 2017, a specialist US-based agency said on Wednesday, revising up its earlier estimates...

Following the Islamic Revolution of Iran and then the Soviet Union collapse, the Muslim world's developments saw transfer to a new stage...