The Nigerian Senate has acknowledged the receipt of 31 separate proposals seeking the creation of new states across the ...

Nigeria’s North Central region has been engulfed in protracted conflict for decades. But the violence receives less ...

Islamic extremists killed nine people and injured four in Borno state in northeastern Nigeria, authorities said Sunday. The ...

Nine killed, four injured in Boko Haram attack on Malam Fatori, Borno. Governor warns residents against aiding insurgents ...

Nigeria’s former president, Muhammadu Buhari, who died in London on 13 July aged 82, was one of two former military heads of state who were later elected as civilian presidents. Buhari was the ...

The United States Mission in Nigeria has announced the arrival of its new Consul General, Rick Swart, who officially assumed ...

Absence of Fulani militias from international terrorism rankings has had profound implications for Nigeria's security ...

There is no doubt I hurt some people and I wish they would pardon me’, said former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari.

During an evening worship service on Monday, suspected Islamic extremists gunned down a Baptist pastor and another worshipper and kidnapped a woman in Katsina state, northwest Nigeria ...

Nigeria’s immediate former President, Muhammadu Buhari, has left the nation in mourning following his ‘shocking’ death. The ...

Nigeria’s state authorities continue to negotiate with organised criminal gangs and bandits, who carry out mass attacks in north-central and north-west Nigeria.