At least nine people have been reported killed and many abducted following an attack in Nigeria’s northwest, residents and local officials said, amid increasing violence against farmers by what have ...

A criminal gang killed nine farmers on Friday in Nigeria's Zamfara state, the epicentre of the country's violent cattle ...

Nigeria’s push into Boko Haram’s forest stronghold fraught with risk. ... The forest is about 60 miles from the village of Chibok, where 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped last year.

KANKARA, Nigeria, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Usama Aminu was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape when gunmen abducted more than 300 pupils from his school in northwestern Nigeria. "When I decided ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria-- Twin car bombs at a bustling city marketplace blasted buildings to rubble and tore apart bodies the same night an attack on a farming village razed every thatched-roof hut. At ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of hostages, mostly children and women, who were held captive for months or years by Boko Haram extremists in northeastern Nigeria have been rescued from a ...

The almost 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria may be captives in what one local newspaper has called the evil forest, a mysterious corner of the country dotted with tents and lined with tunnels ...

Nigerians express outrage over missing girls 10 photos. LAGOS, Nigeria -- After carrying out a mass rescue of 200 girls and 93 women from the forest stronghold of an Islamic insurgent group ...

Road construction crews in southeastern Nigeria have begun work on a six-lane, 260-kilometer “superhighway” in Cross River State, which a Nigerian governor argues will be an economic booster ...

Gunmen suspected to be ethnic Fulani herdsmen invaded a farming village in restive central Nigeria's Benue State, burning several houses, police said Saturday, amid reports that at least 20 people ...