Help identify insect.

[materxxdxa]

Attached is a photo of an insect that attached itself
To my leg this morning in Nigeria abuja.

[adamcotton]

This is some type of tick or mite, not an insect but an arachnid (related to spiders, scorpions etc.).

See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mite

Adam.

[livingplanet3]

Attached is a photo of an insect that attached itself
To my leg this morning in Nigeria abuja...

It's a tropical bont tick (Amblyomma variegatum) -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblyomma_variegatum

This tick sometimes transmits a disease to humans called African tick bite fever, but even without treatment, the disease is typically resolves within several weeks -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_tick_bite_fever

If symptoms do develop, treatment with the antibiotic doxycycline is effective against the causative bacterium (Rickettsia africae), and will speed recovery.