Some 43 suspected terrorists, their collaborators, and suspected logistics suppliers were also...

The reports of casualties came less than two weeks after officials say another air strike on a village...

Criminal gangs known locally as bandits have terrorized northwest and central Nigeria for years

Eight other soldiers and an anti-jihadist militiaman were injured in the attack

Since 2009, Nigeria has been fighting a jihadist insurgency in the northeast that has killed more than...

Borno is at the heart of Nigeria's grinding 12-year jihadist insurgency that has killed more than...

Kidnapping for ransom by armed gangs has become a grim trend in northwest and central Nigeria, with around...

One of the passengers, a 26-year-old male, survived the accident, police said.

The global rights watchdog said it documented at least 115 persons killed by security forces between...

Nigerian Okagbare by contrast will not be lining up in the women's 100 metres semi-finals later on...

On Friday, militants killed 45 people in an attack on the town of Faru in Nigeria

Such violence has increasingly become a part of everyday life in the region

A team of intelligence officials nabbed the three from near the Tamabil land port on Thursday...

The Kidnappers warned that the children could starve unless their parents delivered rice, beans, palm...

'The kidnappers took away 140 students, only 25 students escaped'

Efforts underway to rescue the victims

Children there regularly face nutritional problems due not just to the shortage of food but to a customary...

Gunmen stormed the Federal Government College in Kebbi State on Thursday, killed a policeman and snatched...

The attack is the third mass kidnapping in three weeks in northwest Nigeria

Many people were still unaccounted for Sunday after fleeing the attacks

The US tech firm said Buhari's post threatening to punish groups blamed for attacks on government...