MAIDUGURI: At least 16 people were killed while more than 20 sustained injuries followed by a suicide bomb explosion reportedly carried out by a 10-year-old...
ABUJA: At least 64 persons were killed while 126 others serious injured followed by double bombing inside a mosque during Friday prayers in Nigeria, foreign...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria:Â More than 60 women and girls abducted last month by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have escaped their captors, sources said Sunday....
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists have kidnapped eight more girls from Nigeria’s embattled northeast, residents said on Tuesday, after the extremist group’s leader claimed responsibility for...
Three foreigners have been kidnapped in Nigeria’s southern oil-producing Niger Delta region, police said Monday, after the Dutch foreign ministry told AFP it was “aware”...
KANO: Suspected Islamist insurgents killed 29 people in Nigeria’s embattled northeast, an area senator said Monday, putting 2014 on track to become the bloodiest year...
KANO, Nigeria: An armed gang has raided a northern Nigerian village and killed 48 people in an apparent reprisal attack targeting a local vigilante group,...
ABUJA, Nigeria: Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan imposed a “state of emergency” in three states menaced by Islamist group Boko Haram, saying the level of violence called...