Jihadi extremist groups, including Boko Haram and one of its factions, have been blamed for intensified attacks targeting Nigeria’s military bases in the northeast of the ...

Nigeria's military killed 45 militants in the country’s northwest region, the Katsina state government said Saturday.

Local officials say Islamic militants attacked a town in northeastern Nigeria, abducting more than 300 people, including women and children. The attack on Friday happened in the town of Ngoshe ...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has been applauded by a rights group, Civil Society For Peace, Security and Development (CSPSD ...

The military operations of recent months have confirmed that assessment. What is most striking about these interventions is just how limited they are in terms of commitment. Consider the record.

Islamic militant groups have stepped up attacks and deepened their presence in border areas of Benin, Niger and Nigeria in West Africa over the past year, ...

At least 15 people were killed and several homes burnt in an attack by Boko Haram Islamist militants on a village in Yobe state, northeast Nigeria, residents said on Monday. Gunmen on motorcycles ...

More than 200 pupils and staff were taken by gunmen from St Mary's School in November - all were freed by Christmas Nigeria's government has rejected a media report alleging that it paid a "huge" ...

The Nigerian government paid Boko Haram militants a "huge" ransom of millions of dollars to free up to 230 children and staff the jihadists abducted from a Catholic school in November, an AFP ...

(Kwara State) Boko Haram (Western Learning Forbidden) terrorists are shifting their operations from the Northeast into west-central Nigeria, exploiting ungoverned forests and under-policed rural areas ...

Troops of the Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) have killed scores of Boko Haram terrorists and recovered a cache of arms and ammunition during renewed offensive operations across the North-East theatre. The ...

Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have released a disturbing video in which they paraded 176 abducted victims, including women, children and a nursing mother, allegedly seized from Woro community in ...