Tag: Boko Haram

MAIDUGURI: Suicide bombings, mass kidnappings, tens of thousands of people killed. A ghastly insurgency by the homegrown Islamic extremist group Boko Haram marks 10...

NIGERIA: Another aid worker who was held hostage by Boko Haram for seven months has been killed after a deadline for negotiations expired, the...

  KANO: Borno state in northeast Nigeria has been devastated by Boko Haram's Islamist insurgency but candidates are lining up to become governor at elections...

MAIDUGURI: Boko Haram extremists have overrun a key crossroads and military outpost in northeastern Nigeria, residents and authorities said Saturday. Gudumbali is a town...

  KANO: The death toll from a Boko Haram attack on a Nigerian army post on the border with Niger has risen to 48, military...

MAIDUGURI: Islamist militants have killed up to 30 soldiers in an attack on a military base in northeast Nigeria, security sources said on Saturday,...

MAIDUGURI: At least 19 people were killed in an Islamist militant attack on a village in northeast Nigeria in the early hours of Sunday,...

    KANO: At least five people were killed and a village razed in an attack by Boko Haram jihadists in the northern Nigerian Borno state,...

  KANO: Boko Haram fighters killed six traders when they ambushed a convoy of lorries under military escort in northeast Nigeria, a civilian militia member...

KANO: At least five people were killed and six others injured in a night-time Boko Haram raid and suicide attack on a village in...

MAIDUGURI: At least four people were killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants in northeastern Nigeria late on Thursday, the national emergency agency...

ABUJA: Nigeria on Saturday marked four years since Boko Haram abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from the remote town of Chibok, with renewed calls...

ABUJA: Militants from Nigeria’s Boko Haram group have abducted more than 1,000 children in the northeast since 2013, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said...

ABUJA: Boko Haram fighters attacked a military base and two surrounding villages near the flashpoint Nigerian city of Maiduguri overnight, killing at least 18...

ABUJA: Nigeria’s government is in talks with Islamist militant group Boko Haram about a possible ceasefire with the ultimate aim of securing a permanent...

NIGERIA: Schoolgirls accompanied by school staff were able to escape an attack by Boko Haram militants in the North Eastern town of Dapchi in Nigeria...

KANO: Boko Haram militants made a failed Christmas Day attempt to attack Nigeria’s major northeast city of Maiduguri as they were pushed out by Nigerian...