Barack Obama welcomed Nigeria’s freshly elected president to the White House on Monday, lending a personal endorsement after the country’s first ever democratic transition. Obama praised the March ...

Nigeria has Africa’s largest population and its biggest economy, but relations with the US have been strained. Newly elected President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in Washington today at the invitation of ...

US President Barack Obama described the kidnapping of more than 220 schoolgirls by Islamists in Nigeria as “heartbreaking” and “outrageous” as Washington deployed military experts in the hunt for the ...

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The Obama Foundation has announced that Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby has been commissioned to create the first official portrait of President and Mrs. Obama for the Obama Presidential ...