A Catholic priest has been kidnapped and murdered in the Diocese of Kafanchan, in Nigeria's Middle Belt. Father Sylvester Okechukwu was ...

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

Gunmen kidnapped dozens in a raid on Kakin Dawa village on Sunday. Zamfara police said that additional security forces were being deployed...

Kidnappings are rising in Nigeria. Experts blame the issue on worsening economic conditions. Gangs of armed men kidnap people for ransom, ...

A gang of gunmen kidnapped more than 50 women and children in a raid on Kakin Dawa village in Nigeria's northwest Zamfara state, police ...

Doctors in Nigerian public hospitals have started a seven-day nationwide strike to demand the release of their colleague, Dr Ganiyat Popoola...

Twenty Nigerian medical students who were kidnapped on their way to a convention have been freed more than a week after their abduction, pol...

Gunmen stormed the residence of Salisu Ango, Governor Umar Dikko Radda’s liaison officer, in Gyaza village, Kankia Local Government Area, Ka...

Police in Nigeria are searching for 20 medical students who were kidnapped by gunmen last Thursday. The students were on their way to a medi...

  The whereabouts of a pastor and his daughter kidnapped in northwestern Nigeria were unknown after their captors threatened to kill them ev...

The 20 students were kidnapped while heading to a convention in Benue State on Thursday evening. CGTN Related story: Nigeria police workin...

Nigerian police and security agencies are working to secure the release of 20 medical students who were kidnapped in the eastern part of the...

A British hostage was killed in a military operation in Nigeria on Wednesday which released six other hostages, the Italian foreign ministry...

At least seven people were killed and 100 kidnapped on Saturday night when gunmen attacked a rural community in Nigeria’s northwestern Katsi...

Police authorities confirmed the incident with witnesses saying the gunmen attacked with sophisticated firearms, shooting sporadically int...

Ten people were killed and 160 others, including children, were abducted during a raid by suspected Boko Haram militants on a remote village...

Some of those rescued were kidnapped 10 years ago. Most of the victims were women and children. CGTN Related story: 386 civilians rescued ...

The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said its operatives on Sunday foiled a kidnap attempt and rescued victims in Dawak...

No fewer than 386 people, mostly women and children, have been rescued by the Army in Sambisa forest ten years after their abduction. The ac...

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