From 12 January, public and private schools "in safe and secure areas" will be allowed to reopen, Niger state's education ...

It is often said that you cannot attend Mass in Nigeria without hearing a Jude Nnam composition, an ubiquity Nnam combines ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — In Papiri, a remote region in Nigeria’s north central state of Niger, 50 children ages 10-18 escaped captivity over the weekend after being kidnapped from a Catholic school late ...

Fifty students who were abducted from a Catholic school in northern Nigeria on Friday have returned to their families after they managed to escape, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on ...

Some of the children appeared to be malnourished or in shock on Monday as they arrived at a government ceremony. Police said they were freed Sunday, a month after gunmen stormed their Catholic school.

A man in Lagos reads local newspapers with headlines on gunmen abducting schoolchildren and staff of the St. Mary's Catholic Primary and Secondary School in Papiri community in Nigeria, Saturday, Nov.

Nov. 21 (UPI) --The Christian Association of Nigeria said 215 Catholic school students in Central Nigeria were kidnapped on Friday by a group of armed men. The attackers also kidnapped a dozen ...

A vendor display local newspapers on the street of Lagos with headlines of the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, where gunmen on Monday attacked the school dormitory, abducted ...

Pope Leo XIV calls for the release of over 300 hostages taken from a Catholic school in Nigeria - one of the largest mass kidnappings the country has ever seen. Addressing those gathered in the ...

An empty classroom at St Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri, Nigeria, where kidnappers seized more than 300 children - Copyright AFP Ifeanyi Immanuel Bakwenye An ...