The army says Nigerian soldiers have killed 79 militants and suspected kidnappers over the past week in an operation ...

Nigeria's authorities have officially declared the Lakurawa armed group - which flogs people for listening to music - a ...

Eighteen people were also killed in a truck accident in south-eastern Nigeria on Sunday, a week after a petrol tanker ...

The operation targeted a decades-long insurgency by Islamic militants in the north-east and attacks by various armed groups ...

Anambra government demolished a kidnappers’ den disguised as a hotel on Onitsha-Owerri Road. The hotel, with 30 graves, was ...

Mariam dreams of returning to education amid insecurity and mass kidnappings. UNICEF reports 18.3 million out-of-school ...

The 2014 kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram extremists in the village of Chibok in the northeastern state of Borno — the epicenter of the conflict between armed groups and the military ...

Prof. Mike IkharialeThe highly publicized expression of disgust and utter frustration by retired Gen. T Y Danjuma on the lamentable situation of insecurity in the country which led him to call for a ...

A yet-to-be-determined number of individuals, including a mother and her child, have lost their lives following a vehicle’s ...

Northeast Nigeria remains one of the world's most challenging regions for humanitarian operations, experts say, due to ongoing violence by non-state armed groups and socio-economic difficulties ...

The first time many people outside Nigeria heard of Boko Haram was in April last year, when the militant group abducted 276 girls from a secondary school in the small town of Chibok, sparking a ...