Tag: Nigerian military

Police in the northern Nigerian city of Kano said they arrested five suspected Boko Haram militants after a gunfight Sunday, ...

A group of community elders in northeast Nigeria where Boko Haram has waged a bloody eight-year insurgency are urging the ...

Boko Haram jihadists believed to be from the IS-supported faction loyal to Abu Mus'ab Al-Barnawi have attacked three military bases ...

Four Nigerian women are taking legal action in the Dutch courts against Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell accusing it of complicity ...

The UN voiced alarm Wednesday at the many Nigerian refugees returning from Cameroon to Banki, a border town clouded by ...

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

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

The claims read like the plot of a best-selling thriller, with secretive arms dealers and a corruption-riddled government fighting jihadists. ...

After a night on the streets, the pack of young boys move into Maiduguri's abandoned amusement park in the early ...

Boko Haram released a video late on Friday claiming to show the Chibok school girls who refused to be rescued ...

Boko Haram late on Friday released a video claiming to show the Chibok schoolgirls who refused to be rescued as ...

The Nigerianarmy calls it "New Banki City", an optimistic name conjuring up visions of modern housing. The reality is an ...

Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau has been injured and one of his deputies killed in an air strike in northeast ...

An "alarming" number of children, most of them girls, have been used by Boko Haram as suicide bombers in the ...

The Trump administration plans to sell fighter planes to Nigeria despite concerns over rights abuses and a botched air strike ...

Four people were killed on Saturday evening when suicide bombers blew themselves up in a village on the outskirts of ...

Thousands of people in northeastern Nigeria remain beyond the reach of aid, Doctors Without Borders said. Many of them have ...

President Donald Trump has been increasingly chatting with other world leaders during his first weeks in office. On Monday he ...

President Muhammad Buhari is such a lucky president who came at the time of need; though he had seen; he ...

A Nigerian military jet has mistakenly bombed a camp for displaced people in the north-east, killing at least 52 people ...