350 hostages, including 209 children and 135 women, rescued from Boko Haram extremists in Sambisa Forest, highlighting the ongoing threat t...

Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) is now targeting Boko Haram's soldiers after raiding Shekau's stronghold in Sambisa forest in Bo...

Despite security measures, insurgents have launched repeated assaults on a dozen fortified towns where people had returned. "They're forcin...

Militant Islamist group Boko Haram and a branch of Islamic State are active in northern Nigeria, but kidnappings by other armed groups - mo...

The soldiers were attacked on Monday on the island village of Boma in the swampy Lake Chad zone in the west of the country, where the armie...

India today assured all possible assistance in key areas of oil and gas exploration and health during the meetings External Affairs Ministe...

The insurgents, allied to the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, have in recent months increasingly used suicide and bomb attacks.

Malala Yousafzai criticised Nigerian and other world leaders for failing to secure the release of over 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram mil...

The group has also repeatedly used young children as human bombs, including a case of a 14-year-old carrying a baby on her back who detonat...

As many as 92.3 per cent of IDPs live with host families and the rest in camps or "camp-like sites", according to the International Organis...

UN expressed concern over the return of hundreds of refugees to Nigeria from Niger, saying authorities in the two countries should stop the...

The Islamist group attacked the town of Baga on January 3, and razed it and at least 16 surrounding settlements, feared to be the worst mas...

More than 200 schoolgirls began their 2nd month as Boko Haram hostages as intl powers ramped up efforts to track down the Nigerian Islamist...

Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from the remote northeastern town of Chibok in Borno state on April 14 and 223 are still being held.

Manned US aircraft were flying over Nigeria, searching for over 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram after Abuja dismissed a prisoner-swa...

A total of 276 girls were abducted on April 14 from the northeastern town of Chibok, in Borno state, with sizeable Christian community.

At least 52 people, including women and children, have been killed in clashes between two rival ethnic communities in southeastern Ebonyi s...