Tag: Islamic extremism in Northern Nigeria

Five people have been killed in a landmine explosion and a roadside ambush in northeast Nigeria blamed on Boko Haram ...

Suspected militant Islamists have ambushed a convoy of about 200 vehicles on a major highway in north-eastern Nigeria, killing a ...

Up to half the food aid meant for people who have fled Nigeria’s Islamist insurgency has reportedly not been delivered, ...

Up to half the food aid meant for people who have fled Nigeria’s Islamist insurgency has reportedly not been delivered, ...

In 2013, thousands of young men formed a rag-tag militia and rounded up Boko Haram members in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, ...

Boko Haram gunmen killed eight members of a civilian militia force on Sunday, hiding in trees and opening fire as ...

Islamist insurgency Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the attack on Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri Wednesday night that killed ...

Farmers and fishermen displaced by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria want to return home, saying it will help ease ...

Eleven people were killed when Boko Haram gunmen and suicide bombers launched a rare combined attack inside the strategic northeast ...

Suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, the Islamist militant group's most serious ...

Around 30 Cameroonian soldiers fighting the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram were arrested after a demonstration to demand the payment ...

Nigeria's information minister on Wednesday said fears for President Muhammadu Buhari's health were unfounded, despite more than three weeks with ...

The rescued Chibok girls will not be going back to their rural home town to complete their schooling, Nigeria's minister ...

Nigeria's ailing president was glaringly absent on Monday as his deputy marked their two years in power, with no word ...

Aid agencies warn that humanitarian efforts against hunger in northeastern Nigeria are dangerously underfunded and some communities remain cut off ...

Lack of funding is forcing aid agencies to cut feeding programmes for starving people in northeast Nigeria, the UN said ...

Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed six people fighting alongside the military in two separate incidents in northeast Nigeria, vigilantes told ...

A group of the “Chibok girls” freed from Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants have been reunited with their families. The 82 ...

A group of the "Chibok girls" freed from Nigeria's Boko Haram militants have been reunited with their families. The 82 ...

There were emotional scenes Saturday as 82 kidnapped Chibok girls released by Boko Haram Islamists earlier this month were reunited ...