In Nigeria, farmers are calling on the government to make their communities safer so they can help relieve a food-security crisis in the c...

Authorities say assailants stormed a village in the Mangu Local Government area and two additional nearby communities on Tuesday. In addit...

The additional deployment follows attacks by gunmen who invaded communities in Plateau state on Christmas Eve, killing over 150 people. An...

Attacks in Nigeria's central Plateau state left nearly 160 people dead after gunmen rounded several villages over the weekend. Authori...

Communities in Plateau state, Nigeria are in mourning after at least 160 people were killed in a series of attacks by armed groups over th...

Nigerian mother-of-three Grace Godwin was preparing food on Christmas Eve when her husband burst into the kitchen and ordered her and the ch...

According to the Food and Agricultural Organization, as many as 26 million Nigerians could face severe hunger by next year. The UN agency ...

Sixteen people have been killed in two attacks in north-central Nigeria in a region struggling with inter-communal violence, the army said. ...

Dozens of cattle herders and bystanders were killed and several injured by a suspected bomb blast in Nigeria's north central region, a s...

  Armed groups have terrorised people in northern Nigeria for years. The 'bandits' burn down villages, steal cattle and kidnap peop...

Nigeria’s presidency says dozens of people have been killed in violence between farmers and herders in the country’s central Nasarawa state....

  Attacked by armed bandits, and being kidnapped or forced to pay levies before they can reach their farmlands. Farmers in Northern Nigeria ...

This month BBC’s Hausa language service which covers northern Nigeria reported a remarkable story of 12 Nigerian police officers being kidn...

After years of military action in north-west Nigeria, the government is choosing dialogue to end killings and kidnapping mainly by nomad...

Farmers and herders once lived harmoniously on Nigeria’s bucolic central plateau, but when Amos Lenji, a farmer, caught a young herdsman...

The Chinese Government has donated relief items worth sixteen thousand dollars to internally displaced persons in Jos, Plateau State, Nort...

Six traders were hacked to death and at least 17 others wounded in an attack at a local market in Nigeria's northeastern state of Taraba...

The fight for fertile land and other resources between farmers and cattle herders in central Nigeria has forced hundreds from their homes....

The police have arrested 11 suspects in connection with the recent killings in Barkin Ladi, Riyom and Jos South council areas of Plateau Sta...

The Nigerian government says it has deployed a Special Intervention Force to restore peace in the central plateau region that saw violence...