(BBC) – A man purporting to be the leader of the Boko Haram Islamist group has said in a video that his fighters carried out a...
by Saeed Shabazz Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has been quoted as saying that the rebel...
Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Kwasi Kpodo ACCRA, Ghana (Reuters)—West African leaders will seek authority next week from the African Union to create a multi-national force...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As Islamic militants from Boko Haram step up attacks in Nigeria that have led to the slaughter of more...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremist group, is increasing the ferocity and tempo of its attacks, destabilizing Africa’s most populous nation as...
(PBS) – GWEN IFILL: Even as the world’s attention has been focused on missing planes in the Java Sea and terror attacks in Paris, another disaster...
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...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press SUNDAY ALAMBA, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan launched his bid for re-election Thursday at a time when...
(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...
BASHIR ADIGUN, Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s chief of defense staff acknowledged Tuesday that the headquarters of a multinational military force on Nigeria’s border...
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...
(InformationNigeria.com)—Fashion designer turned oil tycoon, Chief (Mrs) Folorunsho Alakija, is now officially the richest black woman in the world with an estimated net worth of...
HILARY UGURU, Associated Press MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press WARRI, Nigeria (AP) — The people of Odi were for years united in their outrage, demanding compensation after...
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...
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...
(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...
(The Washington Post) – The World Health Organization has declared Nigeria Ebola-free — after more than six weeks without a new case of the disease...
Bashir Adigun and Maria Cheng, ASSOCIATED PRESS ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The World Health Organization declared on Monday that Nigeria is free of Ebola, a rare...
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...
