A third of nearly 300 girls abducted a decade ago from a government girls’ secondary school in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok by jihadist group Boko Haram are still being held.

Kannywood filmmakers are struggling to keep producing movies after the censorship board revoked working licenses of all actors, actresses, directors and producers.

Northern Nigeria and Niger’s Hausa peoples have deep cultural, religious and economic ties that go back centuries — further than the border created by colonialists.

Kano, the country’s second most populous state, is the site of one of the most fiercely contested election battles.