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...

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

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...

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...

  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...

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...

Over 200 people have died in Nigeria's central state of Plateau where gunmen attacked many villages last weekend, according to a local l...

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 ...

At least 13 people have been killed by gunmen in two separate attacks in central Nigeria’s Benue state, an area that has recently seen a wav...

The African Union's Peace and Security Council is due to discuss the link between climate change and conflict in Africa. The problem&#...

Disputes over territory in central Nigeria have left hundreds of thousands of people displaced. Aid workers now fear a growing humanitaria...

Disputes over territory are escalating elsewhere in Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari's government is under pressure to prevent such...

West African leaders are meeting for talks in the Nigerian capital Abuja. They're seeking solutions to the conflict over land resource...

There has reportedly been another attack in Nigeria's Benue State. At least seven people have apparently been killed in a raid on a ch...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been summoned by the Senate over a spate of killings in the country's middle belt. The lawmaker...

At least 19 people were killed Tuesday after gunmen opened fire at a church in Nigeria's Middle Belt, police said.   Two priests a...