At least nine students have been abducted by gunmen during a late-night raid on their school in northern Nigeria ’s Kogi state, authorities ...

The incident marks the latest mass kidnapping incident in the northwestern state of Zamfara. A district head and residents said on Saturda...

Fourteen students of Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH), Osara in Kogi State, abducted by bandits on Thursday night, ...

Nigerian President Tinubu says ransoms will no longer be paid to kidnappers who have made the crime a business in the West African nation....

Nigerian troops have rescued a pregnant woman and her three children 10 years after she was abducted by Boko Haram militants when she was a...

kidnappings in Northern Nigeria have grown into an industry worth millions of dollars. Related stories: President Tinubu rules out ransoms ...

About 90 girls kidnapped from a government secondary school in Chibok, in Nigeria’s Borno State in 2014 remain missing. A total of 276 gir...

Farmers in northern Nigeria have abandoned their commercial farms and turned to small-scale subsistence farming close to their homes to av...

Security agents on Sunday announced the rescue of 23 students and workers kidnapped in September at the Federal University Gusau in Zamfara ...

Teachers and others employed in the education sector want Nigeria's government to do something to reduce kidnapping incidents at the c...

Nigeria is struggling to contain rising cases of kidnappings for ransom. Security experts say criminal elements are taking advantage of va...

First Lady Senator Oluremi Tinubu is one of the voices demanding the government aggressively address kidnappings in Nigeria. The country h...

BWARI, Nigeria — "They pointed their guns through the window of the children's room while they were sleeping," says the 49-yea...

Not a day goes by without Lawan Zanna remembering his daughter Aisha in prayers. She was among the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped 10 years ago wh...

In the decade since the armed group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 students at an all-girls school in the town of Chibok, abductions have b...

The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, Operation Delta Safe, says its troops on Monday rescued nine kidnap victims abducted by gunme...

Nigeria's federal government says it's doing everything it can to protect communities amid a recent surge in school kidnappings fo...

Gunmen kidnapped at least 15 students from a school in Nigeria 's northwestern Sokoto state in a dawn raid on Saturday. The kidnapping ...