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US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One during travel to Palm Beach, Florida, from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, US, November 25, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Anna Rose Layden/File Photo

US says it struck Islamic State militants in northwest Nigeria

Reuters reported on Monday the US had been conducting intelligence-gathering flights over large parts of Nigeria since late November

People injured in an explosion during evening prayers at a mosque receive treatment at Borno State Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, December 24, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ahmed Kingimi

Blast hits mosque during evening prayers in Nigeria’s Maiduguri: Witness

Newspapers with articles reporting US President Donald Trump's message to Nigeria over the treatment of Christians hang at a newspaper stand in Ojuelegba, Lagos, Nigeria November 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Sodiq Adelakun/File Photo

US conducting surveillance flights over Nigeria after Trump intervention threat

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka responds to questions about the revocation of his US visa, in Lagos, Nigeria, October 28, 2025. REUTERS/Sodiq Adelakun

Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says US revokes his visa

A newspaper with an article reporting US President Donald Trump's message to Nigeria over the treatment of Christians hangs at a newspaper stand in Ojuelegba, Lagos, Nigeria, on 2 November 2025. Photo: Reuters

Whiplash: How Trump's threat to strike Nigeria further reshuffles Pentagon prioritie

A newspaper with an article reporting US President Donald Trump's message to Nigeria over the treatment of Christians hangs at a newspaper stand in Ojuelegba, Lagos, Nigeria, on 2 November 2025. Photo: Reuters

Trump says there 'could be' US troops on the ground in Nigeria, or air strikes

Security personnel patrol the streets amid a surge in violence in Mangu, Plateau State, Nigeria, January 24, 2024, in this screengrab obtained from video. Photo: Reuters TV via REUTERS

Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians

Photo: Collected via UNB

Fuel tanker explosion in Nigeria kills at least 31

People search in flooded area following a downpour in Mokwa, Nigeria, Friday, 30 May 2025. Photo: AP

Death toll in Nigeria floods rises to 151

49-year-old Christopher Obinya who retrieved his grandfather's cocoa farm from a cropper who had been leasing it, inspects it during a visit to the farm in Ikom community, in Cross River State, Nigeria, April 24, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Sodiq Adelakun

'Cocoa boys' flock to Nigerian farmlands, drawn by high prices

At least 70 people were killed and more injured in northern Nigeria when a petrol tanker truck overturned, spilling fuel that exploded. Screengrab: Reuters

Fuel tanker truck blast kills at least 70 in Nigeria

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained a Nigerian individual for trespassing into Bangladesh from India on 29 December. Photo: UNB

Nigerian national held for illegal intrusion from India

FILE PHOTO: A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration

Almost 800 arrested over Nigerian crypto-romance scam