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ABUJA, February 9, 2023 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Nigerian authorities on Thursday ordered the closure of all universities by Feb. 22 ahead of the country's forthcoming general elections starting Feb. [...]

ABUJA, December 5, 2018 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- One college worker was shot dead and eight others were abducted by unknown gunmen who stormed a technology campus in Nigeria's southern [...]

LAGOS, February 22, 2018 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The recent attack by suspected Boko Haram insurgents on a college in restive northeast Nigeria's Yobe and the following confusion with regard [...]

ABUJA, February 22, 2018 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday directed three members of his cabinet to investigate an attack by terror group Boko Haram on an [...]

ABUJA, February 22, 2018 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday ordered three members of his cabinet to investigate an attack by terror group Boko Haram on an [...]

ABUJA, February 21, 2018 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Forty-six students remained missing following an attack by terror group Boko Haram on an all-girls college in Nigeria's northeastern state of Yobe [...]

ABUJA, February 20, 2018 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Local police on Tuesday confirmed that a suicide attacker blew up himself right at the University of Maiduguri in Nigeria's northeastern state [...]

ABUJA, February 12, 2018 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Three Nigerian university lecturers and 10 policewomen abducted last year by terror group Boko Haram will soon be reunited with their families, [...]

LAGOS, Aug 15, 2017 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Academic activities in Nigerian universities are grounded as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has commenced an indefinite nationwide strike for [...]

ABUJA, Aug 07, 2017 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Seventy lecturers in the University of Maiduguri have resigned their appointments following recent attacks by terror group Boko Haram on the university [...]

ABUJA, Jul 28, 2017 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- There is no plan to order a temporary closure of the University of Maiduguri located in the largest city in Nigeria's northeast [...]

ABUJA, Jan 17, 2017 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Terror group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the University of Maiduguri in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno [...]

LAGOS, Jan 17, 2017 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Nigerian police have intensified a massive joint operation backed by other security agencies in the southwest state of Ogun to rescue eight [...]

ABUJA, Jan 16, 2017 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- by Olatunji Saliu Nigeria will not order shutdown of the University of Maiduguri which was attacked by suicide bombers in the capital [...]

ABUJA, Jan 16, 2017 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari has described as 'saddening' the terrorists attack on a university in the country's northeastern state of Borno early [...]

ABUJA, Nov 29, 2016 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Nigeria has ordered the closure of a college in the northwestern state of Kaduna due to recent attacks on villages bordering the [...]

ABUJA, Nov 16, 2016 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Lecturers in public universities across Nigeria began a seven-day warning strike on Wednesday over the government's allegedly 'unfulfilled promises.' The Academic Staff [...]

ABUJA, Nov 12, 2014 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A female suicide bomber was confirmed dead after detonating explosive devices at a college in Nigeria's central Niger State on Wednesday, security [...]

ABUJA, Sep 17, 2014 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- An explosion followed by sporadic gun shots rocked the premises of the Federal College of Education in northwest Nigeria's Kano State on [...]

ABUJA, Sep 17, 2014 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- An explosion followed by sporadic gun shots rocked the premises of the Federal College of Education in northwest Nigeria's Kano State on [...]

ABUJA, Jul 30, 2014 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A female suicide bomber died Wednesday aftet detonating explosive devises at a technical college in Nigeria's northwestern state of Kano, sources said. [...]

Jul 30, 2014 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- FLASH: BLAST ROCKS COLLEGE CAMPUS IN KANO, NIGERIA -- REPORT Copyright 2014 XINHUA NEWS [...]

ABUJA, Mar 07, 2014 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Ten days after the gruesome killing of more than 29 students of a local government college in Buni Yadi area of northeast [...]

ABUJA, Feb 26, 2014 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- By Olatunji Saliu and Omokola Kolajo The attacks are becoming more gruesome, and the attackers are daringly blowing hot. Apparently, Boko Haram, [...]

LAGOS, Jan 30, 2014 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- At least 25 students have been admitted into the University of Lagos in southwestern Nigeria to study the Chinese language at degree [...]

ABUJA, Nov 21, 2013 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A university teacher alleged to be in charge of recruiting new Boko Haram fighters has been arrested in a neighboring state to [...]

YOBE, Nigeria, Oct 03, 2013 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Nigerian military on Thursday claimed a heavy blow at the militant sect of Boko Haram in operations after a deadly [...]

ABUJA, Sep 30, 2013 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- by Olatunji Saliu A Nigerian college reopened for education 13 days ago but the door to a bright future of dozens of [...]

BENIN, Nigeria, Jan 08, 2013 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Authorities of Nigeria's University of Benin (UNIBEN) located in the capital of southern Edo State on Tuesday announced the discovery of [...]

KANO, Nigeria, Apr 29, 2012 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Several explosions rocked an old campus of Bayero University Kano (BUK) in northwestern Kano state of Nigeria on Sunday, with undisclosed [...]

KANO, Nigeria, Apr 29, 2012 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Several explosions rocked an old campus of Bayero University Kano (BUK) in northwestern Kano state of Nigeria on Sunday, with undisclosed [...]

LAGOS, Jan 24, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The third edition of the West African Universities Games (WAUG) opened on Saturday at the Bayero University (BUK) in northern Nigeria's Kano [...]

LAGOS, Jun 18, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Nigeria has begun trials for 150 students selected to represent it at the World University Games slated for Belgrade from July 1 […]

LAGOS, May 05, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has charged on Monday in Abuja African universities to live up to expectations by driving development on […]

LAGOS, Sept 24, 2007 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- As the countdown to the 2008 Nigerian Universities Games Association (NUGA) sports festival begins, authorities of the host institution, University of Nigeria, […]