'We know where missing girls are': Nigeria's top brassNigeria's highest ranking military officer on Monday gave a glimmer of hope to the families of more than 200 schoolgirls held by Boko Haram militants, revealing they had located the missing teenagers.
US deploys troops to Chad to hunt for Nigerian girlsThe United States has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad to help find 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, who are blamed for a spree of deadly attacks this week including a massive car-bombing.
22 May 2014
Twin Nigeria car bombs kill at least 118Twin car bombings in central Nigeria killed at least 118 people and brought entire buildings down Tuesday, in the latest affront to the government's internationally-backed security crackdown.
21 May 2014
International effort widens for missing Nigerian schoolgirlsInternational efforts have widened to trace more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamists militants in Nigeria, while France has called for African leaders to hold a summit focused on the issue.
12 May 2014
Boko Haram holding 223 Nigerian schoolgirls: policeNigerian police on Friday said Boko Haram militants were holding 223 girls of the 276 seized from their school in the country's northeast, revising upwards the number of youngsters abducted.
03 May 2014
Islamists abduct more than 100 girls from Nigeria schoolHeavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped more than 100 girls from a school in northeast Nigeria, sparking a search by soldiers to track down the attackers, a security source and witnesses said.
16 April 2014
Bomb attack kills 71 at bus station near Nigeria capitalSeventy-one people died in a bomb blast in a packed bus station in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Monday -- the deadliest attack yet to strike the city -- with the president blaming the explosion on Boko Haram Islamists.
15 April 2014
Nigerian arrested for tweeting attack pictures: AmnestyAmnesty International urged the Nigerian security forces Friday to disclose the whereabouts of a man who was arrested after tweeting pictures of an attempted jail break at the headquarters of the intelligence agency.
12 April 2014
Suspected Fulani herdsmen kill 79 in NigeriaThe death toll in an attack by Fulani herdsmen on a village in northern Nigeria's Zamfara State rose to 79 from 30, a governor spokesman said.
07 April 2014
15 civilians killed in Nigerian 'suicide attack': militaryFifteen civilians were killed in an explosion in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, after troops foiled what the military said was an attempted suicide attack by Boko Haram Islamist militants.
02 April 2014
Nigeria arrests two Britons over 'oil theft plot'Two British nationals were among 14 people arrested on suspicion of attempted bribery in connection with an alleged plot to steal oil from a pipeline, Nigeria said.
29 March 2014
Nigeria gets first visit from UN rights chiefNigeria, under fire internationally for banning gay marriage and alleged abuses while tackling Islamist insurgents, received its first visit from the United Nations human rights commissioner.
13 March 2014
At least 74 dead in Boko Haram violence in NigeriaAt least 74 people were killed in attacks blamed on Boko Haram militants this weekend, taking the overall death toll this year beyond 300, with no apparent end in sight to the carnage.
03 March 2014
43 killed in Nigeria in suspected Boko Haram school attackSuspected Boko Haram Islamists killed 43 people on Tuesday in an attack on secondary school students as they slept in the latest school massacre to hit Nigeria's troubled northeast.
Nigeria to hold presidential vote on February 14, 2015Nigeria is to hold its next presidential election on February 14, 2015, the electoral agency said Friday, with incumbent head of state Goodluck Jonathan expected to seek a second term.
25 January 2014
Same-sex ban 'legalises' homophobic violence: gay NigeriansGay activists on Tuesday vowed to fight the Nigerian government after the country outlawed same-sex unions, warning the act legitimised homophobic violence and increased fears of persecution.
15 January 2014
Boko Haram leader claims Dec. 2 attack in new videoBoko Haram's leader said in a video obtained by AFP on Thursday that the group was behind a daring raid on military installations in the north Nigerian city of Maiduguri earlier this month.
12 December 2013
9 Ambassadors to Kazakhstan present credentialsKazakhstan Secretary of State Marat Tazhin has accepted the credentials from Ambassadors of Denmark, Uruguay. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Bangladesh, Philippines, Zambia, Nigeria and Fiji.