Nigeria anticipates further strikes against jihadist groups. This follows a Christmas Day bombardment by US forces in the north, described ...

Nigerians across Sokoto state awoke to loud blasts Thursday night, worried their village was being attacked by one of the multiple armed gr...

Nigeria faces mounting security fears after a second mass school abduction. Over 300 students and teachers were taken from St Mary's school...

Nigeria faces a severe maternal health crisis. Boko Haram's resurgence and dwindling foreign aid worsen the situation. Women in the northea...

More than 100 people are missing after jihadists carried out a mass kidnapping in northeast Nigeria, targeting women and children from disp...

Perpetrators swept through eight villages, killing people and sending residents fleeing, police said, giving a death toll of 88. Details be...

The trend of abduction from boarding schools was started by the jihadist group Boko Haram, which seized 270 schoolgirls from a school at Ch...

President Muhammadu Buhari expressed "overwhelming joy" at their release and called on the security forces to hunt down their abductors, af...

Gunmen abducted the girls from the Government Girls Junior Secondary School in Jangebe town on Friday, in the latest in a series of mass ki...

Resident Musa Mustapha said the gunmen also attacked a nearby military camp and checkpoint, preventing soldiers from interfering while the ...

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

Nigeria's initially suggested there would be no negotiations with Boko Haram but it appears that stance may be relaxed.

Ten Indian citizens kidnapped early this month in volatile southern Nigeria have been released.