Tag: Nigeria

Nigeria's main opposition on Tuesday claimed victory in the country's tense general election as former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari pulled ahead of President Goodluck...

Nigeria's military claims it has destroyed the headquarters of Boko Haram in Gwoza, a town in northeast Nigeria. It was not possible to verify...

Three crew members of a Maltese-flagged supertanker, who were kidnapped by pirates three weeks ago off Nigeria, have been released, Greece's foreign ministry said...

KANO: A girl bomber blew herself up and killed five others on Sunday in an attack on a market in the north-eastern Nigerian city...

At least 30 people were killed in Boko Haram raids on two villages in northeast Nigerian Borno state near the town of Chibok, a...

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on Sunday called for global support to help secure the release of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko...

A blast ripped through a car park outside a stadium minutes after Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan had addressed a re-election campaign rally there on...

Nigeria's military repelled an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants on Borno state capital Maiduguri in the northeast of the country, security sources said...

  Boko Haram fighters killed a woman as she was in labour during what is feared to be the deadliest attack in the militants' six-year...

LAGOS- A Nigerian archbishop called Monday for the same international support to tackle Boko Haram as France has received since it was hit by extremist...

Hundreds of bodies, too many to count, remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested Friday...

ABUJA, Nigeria — A defense attorney says a court-martial that sentenced 54 soldiers to death will try another 43 soldiers and officers also accused...

KANO- Boko Haram has claimed the 219 schoolgirls it kidnapped in Nigeria earlier this year have converted to Islam and been married off, according to...

This year's outbreak of the highly infectious hemorrhagic fever thought to have originated in forest bats is the worst on record

At least three people were killed when a Lagos guest house being built by one of Nigeria's biggest Christian churches collapsed, and the final...

Teen education activist says she would hold Nigerian leader to his pledge Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan promised on Monday that more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls...

Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban, held meetings on Sunday in the Nigerian capital of Abuja with some...