Nigeria

Police said seven men detained by special forces after the suspected hijacking of an oil tanker off the Isle of Wight will face no further criminal prosecution (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Decision to drop prosecution of men held after oil tanker ‘hijacking’ criticised

January 8 2021

(Nardus Engelbrecht/AP)

Another new variant of coronavirus ’emerges in Nigeria’

December 24 2020

More than 300 schoolboys kidnapped last week in an attack on their school in north-west Nigeria have arrived in the capital of Katsina state to celebrate their release (Sunday Alamba/AP)

Freed Nigerian schoolboys welcomed in state capital after abduction ordeal

December 18 2020

Nigerian police say hundreds of students are missing after gunmen attacked the secondary school (Abdullatif Yusuf/AP)

Boko Haram claims responsibility for abduction of Nigerian pupils

December 15 2020

People gather inside the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Nigeria (Abdullatif Yusuf/AP)

Fears grow for missing students in Nigeria after school attack

December 14 2020

People gather at the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Nigeria (Abdullatifsuf/AP)

Hundreds of students missing after attack on Nigerian school

December 13 2020

Benin brass plaque showing Benin court officials flanking a palace entrance or altar (Trustees of the British Museum)

British Museum to help look for Benin royal treasures in archaeological dig

November 13 2020

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Mary Slessor charity founder Dr Lawrie Mitchell dies, aged 84

October 21 2020

Beyonce (Ian West/PA)

Beyonce backs #EndSARS movement amid protests in Nigeria

October 21 2020

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Dundee graduate to create poetry book inspired by Mary Slessor

March 27 2020

Bamidele Agbakuribe

Protest concert planned to fight Dundee student’s deportation

May 23 2019

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Military operation launched to free Scots oil worker in Nigeria

April 30 2019

Fishermen on a river in the Niger Delta region, Nigeria.

Scottish oil worker kidnapped in Nigeria

April 29 2019

BBC director general Tony Hall (Ben Stansall/PA)

BBC to launch ‘timely’ season to bridge political differences in divided world

February 27 2019

Katie Price said she has room for another child (Ian West/PA)

Katie Price wants to adopt Nigerian orphan

January 28 2019

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Nigerian missionaries come to Dundee to learn about Mary Slessor

May 14 2018

Mary Slessor.

Iconic film tribute to famous Dundee missionary

January 18 2018

Oluwafani Oki in his Hilltown office with one of the drink bottles left behind by thieves visible on the desk.

Thieves raid Hilltown freight business – and stop to have a party

January 11 2018

Chinese President Xi Jinping with Queen Elizabeth II at a state banquet at Buckingham Palace.

Queen caught on camera saying Chinese officials were ‘very rude’

May 11 2016