CHIKA ODUAH, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — When Islamic extremists snatched more than 270 girls from the Chibok boarding school in Nigeria in the dead...
Chris Kay, Bloomberg News via CHICAGO TRIBUNE ABUJA, Nigeria (Chicago Tribune) — Nigeria’s military has six weeks to do what it failed to accomplish in...
Chris Kay, Bloomberg News via CHICAGO TRIBUNE ABUJA, Nigeria (Chicago Tribune) — Nigeria’s military has six weeks to do what it failed to accomplish in...
Dalatou Mamane, ASSOCIATED PRESS NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — A total of 109 Boko Haram fighters were killed by soldiers responding to attacks on two towns in...
DALATOU MAMONE, Associated Press EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI, Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Islamic extremists from Nigeria attacked a town inside the neighboring country of Niger...
EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI, Associated Press MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Hundreds of Boko Haram fighters took revenge Thursday on villagers in Cameroon, shooting...
(BBC) – With presidential polls on 14 February, it is clear that some of the potential voters residing in the troubled north-east of Nigeria will not...
(BBC) – With presidential polls on 14 February, it is clear that some of the potential voters residing in the troubled north-east of Nigeria will not...
(BBC) – When Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from a school in Chibok in April 2014, the world woke up...
(BBC) – When Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from a school in Chibok in April 2014, the world woke up...
(BBC) – Chad’s army says it has killed more than 200 militant Islamists and lost nine men during a battle to recapture a key town in...
(Reuters) – A bomb blast that went off just minutes after Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan left an election campaign rally was the work of a...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Nigeria, Africa’s so-called giant and the world’s biggest Black nation, is in the news again. And as usual, much of...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Nigeria has the largest Black population in the world – 178 million. Within that population are 300 differing ethnic...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press LEKAN OYEKANMI, Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Chad sent a warplane dropping bombs and ground troops to drive Islamic extremists from...
(BBC) – AU commission chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said the threat posed by the Islamist group required a “collective, effective and decisive response”. Boko Haram has...
(BBC) – AU commission chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said the threat posed by the Islamist group required a “collective, effective and decisive response”. Boko Haram has...
IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press JALINGO, Nigeria (AP) — Youths angry at the Nigerian government’s failure to fight Islamic extremists threw stones Thursday at President Goodluck Jonathan’s...
IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press JALINGO, Nigeria (AP) — Youths angry at the Nigerian government’s failure to fight Islamic extremists threw stones Thursday at President Goodluck Jonathan’s...
ELIAS MESERET, Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The threat posed by Boko Haram, Nigeria’s Islamic extremist rebels, will be a focus of U.N. Secretary-General...
ELIAS MESERET, Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The threat posed by Boko Haram, Nigeria’s Islamic extremist rebels, will be a focus of U.N. Secretary-General...
IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic extremists are rampaging through villages in northeastern Nigeria, killing, burning and looting with...
(Bloomberg) — Nigeria’s military failed to protect civilians despite being warned of impending Islamist attacks on two northeastern towns where hundreds died this month, Amnesty...
MAIGUDURI, Nigeria (BBC.com)—Nigerian Islamist Boko Haram fighters have attacked the strategically important north-eastern city of Maiduguri, with dozens reported dead. Earlier on Sunday they captured the...
KADUNA, Nigeria (New York Times) — Boisterous crowds packed the streets for the retired general, while young men climbed lampposts, walls and billboards to glimpse his...