Tag: Nigeria

KADUNA Gunmen killed more than 100 people in an attack on three villages in central Nigeria, an area where longstanding disputes over land, religion and...

KADUNA- Gunmen killed more than 100 people in an attack on three villages in central Nigeria, an area where longstanding disputes over land, religion and...

MAIDUGURI- Suspected Islamic militants are attacking the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, with shooting and explosions putting residents to flight. Children walking to school when shooting...

TRIPOLI- Niger on Thursday extradited to Libya one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons, al-Saadi, who fled as his father's regime crumbled in 2011 and who was...

Suspected insurgents killed 29 people in Nigeria’s embattled northeast, an official said Monday, the latest carnage in a surge of violence that has left...

DAMATURU- Gunmen from Islamist group Boko Haram stormed a boarding school in northeast Nigeria overnight and killed 29 pupils, many of whom died in flames...

KANO- An attack by scores of Boko Haram Islamists in the north-east Nigeria town of Bama has killed 60 people and caused massive destruction to...

  At least 50 Islamist rebels fleeing towards Cameroon were killed in a battle by Nigerian forces, according to a military statement on Tuesday. 15 Nigerian...

The Pakistan High Commissioner to Nigeria, Lt. Gen. Muhammad Ashraf Saleem, has called for closer collaboration between his country and Nigeria specifically in the...

Suspected Islamist extremists killed at least 44 villagers in continuing attacks in an Islamic uprising in northeast Nigeria. An official of the National Emergency...

Nigerian soldiers have blocked roads out of a key northeastern city to deprive Boko Haram fighters of supplies in remote towns they control, the...

Suspected fighters from the Nigerian group Boko Haram have staged an attack on the northeastern town of Bama, freeing over 100 prison inmates and...

Nigeria would enhance two-way trade with Pakistan to $1 billion by the end of 2013by enhancing interaction between the business communities of both the...

A series of blasts targeting three buses full of passengers in Nigeria’s second city of Kano killed at least 20 people on Monday, a...

Nigerian security forces have said they have narrowed in on the area where the Islamist extremist group, Boko Haram, have held the French hostages,...

The Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) on Thursday foiled a bid to smuggle 100 capsules of heroin from Benazir Bhutto Shaheed International Airport. According to the...

Nigerians frustrated by years of waiting for their football team to again play to its potential erupted with screams of joy and celebration Sunday...