Ruth Olurounbi

Artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling more than half of cybercrime in Africa, enabling criminals to launch faster, more sophisticated attacks as financial losses continue to mount, a new study found.

Nigeria’s capital-markets regulator ordered operators to freeze funds, assets and other economic resources belonging to six individuals and three entities designated as terrorism financiers by the country’s sanctions committee.

The US is easing long-standing conditions on Nigerian vessels entering its waters, after ports in the West African nation were judged to have improved their anti-terrorism safeguards.

Niger said it contained a mutiny by soldiers who detained some of their colleagues at a military base and fired on sites in the capital, the first major challenge from within the armed forces to the junta that seized power three years ago.

The man stopped by the authorities at a Lagos airport on a Wednesday in mid-August said he’d come to Nigeria to open a restaurant. Drug-enforcement agents had a different story.

Nigeria has dismantled four large-scale laboratories in six months.

They'd spent months hunting the Mexican national suspected of having links to an industrial-scale methamphetamine lab secreted in the country's

African governments from Nigeria to Kenya are adding fresh measures to soften a rise in fuel prices caused by the Iran war.

Nigeria is targeting an investment-grade credit rating and a return to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s flagship emerging-market government bond index as it seeks to draw more investment and deepen its capital markets, Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele said.

Nigerian Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele unveiled a draft economic policy framework designed to serve as a blueprint for government plans, budgets and policies, regardless of the administration in power.