A boat carrying residents returning from a wedding capsized in northern Nigeria killing about 100 people, police and local residents said Tuesday, as a search for survivors intensified.

The boat was carrying more than 100 people when it sank," said Ibrahim. Many of the victims drowned because the accident happened at about 3 a.m. and not many knew of it until hours later, he said.

MAIDUGURI and LONDON -- The death toll from a capsized boat that was carrying wedding guests in Nigeria has risen to more than 100, authorities said Wednesday. The wooden boat overturned early ...

At least eight people have died and 100 are missing after a boat capsized on the River Niger in northern Nigeria, the country's authorities have said. Initial reports early on Friday morning ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — At least 27 people were killed and more than 100, mostly women, were missing on Friday after a boat transporting them to a food market capsized along the River Niger in northern ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A boat carrying mostly farmers capsized on a river in northwest Nigeria, drowning at least 40 people, President Bola Tinub u said Sunday.

Hundreds of people, including wedding guests, are feared dead in north-central Nigeria after a boat they were traveling in capsized in the river Niger early Monday, a local chief told CNN on ...

A boat carrying residents returning from a wedding capsized in northern Nigeria, killing more than 100 people, police and local residents said as a search for survivors intensified.

An overloaded wooden boat ferrying nearly 300 wedding guests across the Niger River in a remote part of Nigeria split in half and capsized, leaving at least 106 people dead, including children.

At least fifteen people have died after a boat capsized in Nigeria’s northwestern Sokoto State on Tuesday, authorities told CNN. A police spokesman, Sanusi Abubakar, told CNN on Wednesday that ...