A week after the Sadiku-led Boko Haram faction killed and abducted more than 170 women and children from Woro in Kaiama, Kwara State, the t...

  Nigeria's military says it has rescued the widow of a retired general who himself had died at the weekend while being held by kidnappe...

The Nigerian parliament has passed a constitutional amendment bill aimed at decentralizing the country’s security architecture through th...

  A retired Nigerian army general who had been kidnapped by gunmen in the country's north-west has died while being held captive, the mi...

The global war against terrorism is entering a new phase, and Africa has become its central battlefield following recent happenings in the f...

Armed bandits in north-west Nigeria abducted dozens of villagers whom they invited to a meeting about potential peace negotiations, authorit...

  A court in Nigeria has sentenced four men to death for attacking a church in the south-western Ondo state in 2022 in a case which sent sho...

Gunmen raided an off-campus residence in northwest Nigeria and kidnapped seven students, police said. The attack occurred early Wednesday in...

Teachers protest schoolchildren kidnappings in Nigeria Teachers in major Nigerian cities Tuesday protested a string of kidnappings and at...

Nigeria’s long-standing reputation as a transit hub for international narcotics is undergoing a dark evolution. The National Drug Law Enforc...

Nigeria's anti-drug agency said it had dismantled a methamphetamine syndicate in the largest seizure of ​its kind in the country, seizin...

Fear has gripped Nigeria’s southwestern Oyo State after gunmen killed a school official and abducted students and a vice principal in coord...

Nigeria ‘s military Tuesday denied a rights group’s claim that an airstrike killed 100 civilians in a market over the weekend, as attention...

Armed men abducted 39 students and seven ⁠teachers in an attack targeting several schools in Nigeria’s southwestern Oyo State last week, off...

A wave of militant attacks on schools in Nigeria over the last week has resulted in more than 80 children gone missing, local officials and ...

A Nigerian court on Wednesday sentenced former power minister Saleh Mamman to 75 years in jail for siphoning off millions of dollars from hy...

In the digital age, a "like" or a "share" is usually a sign of support. But for families of kidnapping victims in Nigeri...

As part of the ongoing efforts to strengthen international confidence in Nigeria’s anti-smuggling and cargo intelligence system, the Nigeria...

Operatives of a Special Operations Unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), in close coordination with the United States Dr...

Suspected members of the Nigerian-linked Black Axe crime gang have ​been arrested in Switzerland accused of ‌involvement in romance scams an...