Kidnappers in Nigeria have killed at least 35 people they abducted from a village in northern Zamfara state despite ransoms being paid for t...

Nigerian security forces have killed at least 30 gunmen after armed attacks in the country’s troubled northwest, authorities said Thursday. ...

Insecurity in northern and central Nigeria continues to worsen, driven by violent farmer-herder clashes. These disputes, rooted in compet...

President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday directed security agencies to hunt down the perpetrators of a weekend attack that killed at least 150 peo...

Residents of Yelewata in Benue State, Central Nigeria, are struggling to recover from a devastating overnight attack this weekend. Such a...

The death toll from an attack by gunmen over the weekend in north-central Nigeria has climbed to 150, survivors said Monday as the village...

The spokesperson for Benue state's governor's said armed bandits attacked Yelwata town early on Saturday, killing 45 people. A po...

Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the central city of Makurdi on Sunday, as anger mounted over the killing of dozens of people...

Nigeria’s Borno State is facing a deepening insurgency, largely blamed on militants. In recent months, a wave of attacks has overwhelmed ...

The Nigerian authorities’ shocking failure to protect lives and property from daily attacks by armed groups and bandits has cost thousands o...

A suspected militant attack on two villages in Nigeria left at least 57 people dead and at least 70 missing on Thursday, witnesses said Sund...

Gunmen killed 23 people in four separate attacks in central Nigeria 's Benue state, a Red Cross official said Sunday, the latest flare-...

Rising incidents of violence in Nigeria’s north-east and north-central regions has caught the attention of President Bola Tinubu. On Wedn...

Nigeria's president said on Monday that at least 40 people were killed when Muslim gunmen, believed to be herders, attacked a Christian ...

Boko Haram launched a wave of attacks on military bases in Nigeria's Borno State. Governor Babagana Zulum responded with a call for a...

The Nigerian military on Sunday accused “outrageously violent” protesters at a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel procession in the capital Abuja ...

The repatriation is being coordinated by the Borno state government, Chad and the UN High Commission for Refugees. This is following an a...

Five men have been sentenced to death by hanging in Nigeria's Kano state for the 2023 murder of a woman they accused of witchcraft. The ...

  Nigerians on social media are mourning the death of a woman who was allegedly beheaded by a man reported to be her boyfriend in Nasarawa s...

Security officials in Nigeria are raising concerns after a National Bureau of Statistics survey revealed that more than 2 million people wer...