Morocco and Nigeria face off in AFCON Semi-finals on January 14. Both teams topped their groups and won decisive knockout matches to reach this stage. Match airs on beIN SPORTS (US), fuboTV (Canada), ...

Nigeria have booked their AFCON 2025 quarter-final place after thumping Mozambique in the last 16. Ademola Lookman finished into the top corner from Akor Adams' square pass to open the scoring in the ...

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Nigeria have rested a few key players for their final group game at the Africa Cup of Nations against Uganda, though Victor Osimhen starts with qualification to the knockout stage already secured.

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The US carried out strikes on Islamic State-linked targets in north-west Nigeria over Christmas, in what both Washington and Abuja describe as a joint operation. The basics: when, where, and what each ...

Nigeria beat Tunisia 3-2 in a dramatic Group C clash against Tunisia at AFCON 2025. Having squandered a string of early chances, Victor Osimhen opened his account at the tournament by heading Ademola ...

Two ISIS-linked camps were taken out in US-backed airstrikes on Christmas, the Nigerian government confirmed Saturday. “These locations were being used as assembly and staging grounds by foreign ISIS ...

LAGOS, Dec 27 (Reuters) - U.S.-backed air strikes in Nigeria hit two Islamic State-linked camps in the Bauni forest of Sokoto State, targeting foreign fighters infiltrating from the Sahel, the ...

The United States carried out a strike against Islamic State militants in northwest Nigeria at the request of Nigeria's government, President Donald Trump and the U.S. military said on Thursday, ...

The United States launched airstrikes in Nigeria against Islamic State militants on Christmas Day after President Donald Trump threatened in November to go into the country "guns-a-blazing" over what ...

President Trump said Thursday that the U.S. launched "powerful and deadly" strikes against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country's government of ...