Nigeria

The home secretary is to decide whether to deport a kidney transplant patient whose life depends on anti-rejection drugs despite claims that deportation would mean certain death. Fatima Manji reports.

A Californian filmmaker linked to an anti-Islamic film which sparked a wave of violent protests across the world is taken in for questioning by officers.

As Unicef releases figures showing that more children now survive their fifth birthday than ever before, a charity praises the efforts of two post-conflict African nations on child mortality targets.

Nigeria begins three days of national mourning after a plane crashes in Lagos, killing all 153 passengers and crew.

At least 38 people have been killed in a car bomb exploded near the Gwari area in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna State on Sunday.

Writing for Channel 4 News, defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones warns that the west ignores the escalation in activities of Nigeria’s Boko Haram at its peril.

After British and Italian hostages die in Nigeria during an attempted rescue mission, the Italian president says his country should have been informed before the mission was carried out.

The Italian president lashes out at the UK for not informing his country before launching the operation to rescue an Italian and British hostage, which resulted in their deaths.

The gold-mining state of Zamfara is the site of the world’s worst lead-poisoning disaster. Hundreds of children have died, and campaigners tell Channel 4 News thousands more face permanent disability.

At least 178 people are now dead after a string of bomb blasts and shootings in northern Nigeria and a senior doctor in the city of Kano says that number could rise.

Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones assesses where conflicts are most likely to erupt over the next 12 months.

As Nigeria’s president declares a state of emergency after a fatal blast in Maiduguri, Anthony Tucker-Jones reports on the Nigerian Taliban’s attempt to spark a sectarian civil war.

Five explosions rock Nigeria killing dozens of people. The most serious blast is at a Catholic church on the outskirts of the capital Abuja.

Witnesses say a spate of coordinated gun and bomb attacks in the city of Damaturu have left the area deserted, with bodies piling up in local morgues.