ABUJA: Fresh negotiations have started with Boko Haram militants for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped last year but the Nigerian government...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: A bomb blast hit a cattle market in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno late on Saturday, with as many as 16 people dead, hospital and...
ABUJA: Gunmen broke into a prison in the central Nigerian city of Minna, freeing around 200 inmates, a police spokesman and security sources said. The sources...
YOLA/ABUJA: Suspected Boko Haram militants kidnapped at least 25 girls in an attack on a remote town in northeastern Nigeria, witnesses said, despite talks on...
ABUJA: A bomb exploded at a bus station in northern Nigeria's Bauchi state late on Wednesday, killing at least five people and wounding 12, police said....
ABUJA/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: An explosion killed at least three people outside an army barracks in Nigeria's northeastern city of Gombe on Sunday, witnesses...
PARIS/ABUJA: A French engineer who had been held hostage by Islamist militants in northern Nigeria for almost a year has escaped his jailers, President...
MAMUDO, Nigeria: They crept up to the school under cover of darkness, armed with petrol and automatic weapons. Most of the teachers and pupils had fled, but...
KADUNA, Nigeria: The leader of Boko Haram Islamist rebels said on Wednesday a Nigerian military offensive is failing in its goal of crushing the four-year-old...
KADUNA, Nigeria: Nigerian Islamist group Ansaru said on Sunday it was behind the kidnap of a French national last week, citing France's ban on full-face veils...
KADUNA, Nigeria: A suicide bomber drove a jeep full of explosives into a Catholic church during morning mass in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least...
ZARIA, Nigeria: Suicide car bombers attacked three churches in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least 19 people and wounding dozens, and triggering...