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...

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...

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

Clashes between herdsmen and farmers in the Nigerian state of Benue left at least 23 people dead, a local official said on Thursday, the lat...

Several women and children drowned while trying to escape an armed attack in Nigeria’s troubled northern region, residents and a government ...

One sunny afternoon in April, Rahmata Adeagbo, was seated on a bed in her brother’s house where she now lives, staring blankly at the visito...

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...

Villages in Nigeria continue to bear the brunt of clashes between Fulani herdsmen and farmers. Attacks carried out by Fulani militants k...

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

At least 59 "bandits" were killed by a civilian defence force when they attacked a village in northwest Nigeria, security official...

Conflict between farmers and herders are affecting Nigeria's rising levels of poverty. Analysts say the violence is forcing millions...

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

At least 86 people have died in central Nigeria after violent clashes broke out between farmers and cattle herders, police in Plateau state ...