A Carnival Cruise ship veered off course to rescue 27 Cuban migrants who were stranded on a rickety wooden boat in the waters between Florida and the island nation, according to a report.

Nigerian soldiers have reportedly rescued Lydia Simon, a woman abducted by extremists in Chibok a decade ago while she was a schoolgirl. Simon, five months pregnant, was found in the Gwoza council ...

More than 100 inmates escaped from a Nigerian prison near Abuja due to heavy rains destroying parts of the facility. The overnight downpour destroyed the perimeter fence of the medium-security ...

According to Nigerian research firm SBM Intelligence, nearly 2,000 people have been abducted in exchange for ransoms this year. However, armed gangs find the kidnapping of schoolchildren a "more ...

The bulk of migrants who qualify for the Biden administration’s mass parole program are flying into Florida, subpoenaed documents released Tuesday by the House Homeland Security Committee show.

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NEW YORK (AP) — A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in New York City’s Times Square to break the Guinness World Record for the longest ...

Backed by the likes of Left Lane Capital and Y Combinator (where it was part of the Summer ’21 cohort as Lemonade Finance), LemFi initially targeted Nigerian migrants in Canada, offering multi ...

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Tunde Onakoya, who beat previous record of 56 hours, hopes to raise $1m for children’s education in Africa A Nigerian chess champion has broken the record for the longest chess marathon after ...

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