Faith Karimi and Amina Abubakar, CNN KANO, Nigeria (CNN)—The attackers sped into a Nigerian town with grenade launchers — their gunfire and explosions shattering the...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (BBC)—At least 19 people have been killed and several injured by a bomb strapped to a girl reported to be aged about 10 in...
IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of bodies — too many to count — remain strewn in the bush...
(BBC) – Nigeria’s militant Islamists have carried out a second attack on the key north-eastern town of Baga, an official has told the BBC. Boko Haram...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters)—Islamist militants have overrun an army base in the remote northeast Nigerian town of Baga, two security sources said on Sunday. Baga is...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters)—Gunmen abducted 40 boys and young men from a remote village in northeast Nigeria in a raid that residents and a security source...
Julia Payne, REUTERS ABUJA, Nigeria (Reuters)—Parents of 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist rebels in April said they were appealing directly to the United Nations for...
LEKAN OYEKANMI, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — After the Nigerian government soldiers fled and the Islamic insurgents arrived in his village with guns blazing, Peter...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Like most people, I’d given up hope that the more than 200 high school girls who were kidnapped in northern Nigeria...
Adamu Adamu and Michelle Faul, ASSOCIATED PRESS POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — A suicide bomber disguised in a school uniform detonated explosives at a high school...
IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Thirteen-year-old Sulaiman wanders the streets of Nigeria’s northeastern town of Yola, hungry, dusty and...
Haruna Umar and Michelle Faul, ASSOCIATED PRESS MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — With a malevolent laugh, the leader of Nigeria’s Islamic extremists tells the world...
(BBC.com)—For six months the world has waited for news of the fate of more than 200 girls abducted by Nigerian militant group Boko Haram. As the...
(Business Week) – Persistent violence in northeast Nigeria is undermining the government’s claims to have brokered a cease-fire with Islamist militant group Boko Haram. A lack...
MESFIN FEKADU, AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Alicia Keys held a protest in New York City on Tuesday to raise awareness about the 200-plus...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The identity of what could be the first “Chibok girl” purportedly freed by Islamic extremists in Nigeria remains in doubt. A...
(CNN) — Nigerian forces battling the Islamist terror group Boko Haram have killed a man suspected of acting as the group’s leader, Nigeria’s Defense Ministry said. The...
(BBC) – The main cities in northern Nigeria have been bombed on many occasions. In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali...
African Nation’s Leaders Urged to Take Action by D. Kevin McNeir Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Little girls should have the chance to...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group, claims it has added the city of Gwoza to an Islamic state that it has established...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Columnist WASHINGTON (NNPA) – What do “Bring Back Our Girls,” “Justice for Trayvon” and “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” have in common?...
(BBC) – A group of soldiers in north-eastern Nigeria is refusing to fight Islamist Boko Haram militants until they receive better equipment, one of the mutineers...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Fighters from Nigeria’s Boko Haram militant group seized the northeastern town of Gwoza, overwhelming soldiers based in the...
by Craig D. Frazier Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Last week, a number of local and international events occurred to...
By William Covington Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly LOS ANGELES – Three months after 276 young girls were stolen from the “safety” of...
