Tag: Nigeria

MAIDUGURI- Suspected Boko Haram militants have abducted more than 60 women and girls, some as young as three, in the latest kidnappings in northeast...

KANO- At least 21 people were killed when an explosion ripped through a viewing centre showing World Cup football in Damaturu, northern Nigeria, a...

   Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have reportedly kidnapped 20 women from a nomadic settlement in northeast Nigeria near the town of Chibok, where militants abducted...

President Mamnoon Hussain will pay a four-day official visit to Nigeria from Monday. During his stay, the president will have one-on-one meeting with his Nigerian...

KADUNA- Ten generals and five other senior military officers were found guilty in courts-martial of providing arms and information to Boko Haram extremists, a leading...

Gunmen opened fire on a church service in the northeast Nigerian village of Attangara, killing nine people, police and a witness said on Monday. The...

JOS- Twin car bombings killed 46 people on Tuesday at a crowded market in the central Nigerian city of Jos, as emergency workers struggled to...

Nigeria and four neighbouring countries have declared a "total war" on Boko Haram saying that the dreaded Islamist militant group holding over 220 schoolgirls...

ABUJA- Nigeria's government signaled a willingness on Tuesday to negotiate with Islamist militants holding more than 200 schoolgirls, a month after the kidnapping that has...

LAGOS- The president of Nigeria for weeks refused international help to search for more than 300 girls abducted from a school by Islamic extremists, one...

Nigeria’s military was warned of an attack on a school in which more than 200 girls were abducted by Boko Haram militants but failed...

WASHINGTON-   Michelle Obama on Saturday criticized the kidnapping of scores of Nigerian schoolgirls as an "unconscionable act" carried out by a terrorist group she said...

JIDDAH- Top religious scholars working under the world's largest bloc of Islamic countries said Thursday they strongly condemn the kidnapping of more than 270 Nigerian...

ABUJA-   At least 19 people were  killed in a car bomb that exploded on a busy road in Nigeria's capital, just days before the city...

ABUJA A morning rush hour bomb killed at least 71 people at a Nigerian bus station on the outskirts of the capital on Monday, raising...

ABUJA- Suspected Islamist suicide bombers killed 15 civilians in a failed attack on a state oil company facility in northeast Nigeria, when soldiers at a...

Turkey’s national carrier denied on Wednesday allegations of an arms shipments to unknown groups in Nigeria, which has been ravaged by violence between the...