(The Washington Post) – The World Health Organization has declared Nigeria Ebola-free — after more than six weeks without a new case of the disease...
Bashir Adigun and Maria Cheng, ASSOCIATED PRESS ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The World Health Organization declared on Monday that Nigeria is free of Ebola, a rare...
MESFIN FEKADU, AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Alicia Keys held a protest in New York City on Tuesday to raise awareness about the 200-plus...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The spread of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa is a global health emergency. Countries around the world...
(Bloomberg Businessweek)—In the wake of the revelation that the Dallas man infected with Ebola flew on United Airlines flights from Liberia to Liberia, more than a...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The identity of what could be the first “Chibok girl” purportedly freed by Islamic extremists in Nigeria remains in doubt. A...
(CNN) — Nigerian forces battling the Islamist terror group Boko Haram have killed a man suspected of acting as the group’s leader, Nigeria’s Defense Ministry said. The...
(BBC) – About 50 MPs have stormed out of Nigeria’s lower house of parliament after a motion to discuss an alleged South African arms deal...
Lauran Neergaard and Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could threaten security around the...
(BBC) – The main cities in northern Nigeria have been bombed on many occasions. In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali...
African Nation’s Leaders Urged to Take Action by D. Kevin McNeir Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Little girls should have the chance to...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group, claims it has added the city of Gwoza to an Islamic state that it has established...
(BBC) – A group of soldiers in north-eastern Nigeria is refusing to fight Islamist Boko Haram militants until they receive better equipment, one of the mutineers...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization on Friday declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Fighters from Nigeria’s Boko Haram militant group seized the northeastern town of Gwoza, overwhelming soldiers based in the...
(AllAfrica.com) Abuja, Lagos — It was a solemn atmosphere in Abuja Wednesday as the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, and his Information counterpart, Labaran Maku,...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer Two American aid workers infected with Ebola are getting an experimental drug so novel it has never been tested for...
(Bloomberg) – A tiny San Diego-based company provided an experimental Ebola treatment for two Americans infected with the deadly virus in Liberia. The biotechnology drug, produced...
by Craig D. Frazier Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Last week, a number of local and international events occurred to...
Umaru Fofana and Clair MacDougall, REUTERS (Reuters) – Hundreds of troops deployed in Sierra Leone and Liberia on Monday under an emergency plan to fight...
(Reuters) – Nigeria could cut the number of polio cases to zero next year and be declared free of the disease in 2018 even though...
By William Covington Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly LOS ANGELES – Three months after 276 young girls were stolen from the “safety” of...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s president says he wants to borrow $1 billion from abroad for equipment and training for the military fighting an Islamic...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The National Hospital spokesman says a victim wounded in the bomb blast at a mall in Nigeria’s capital died overnight, raising the death toll to at least 22. The government...
(Reuters) – Some of the schoolgirls abducted by militant group Boko Haram may never return home, Nigeria’s influential former president Olusegun Obasanjo said, in some...
