At least 25 people were killed in an overnight attack on a ​village in Nigeria's central Plateau state, local officials and ‌residents s...

Nigerian security forces this week rescued more than 300 people abducted in separate attacks in Kwara and Niger states. President Bola Ti...

Two violent attacks against the Catholic Church in Nigeria have been perpetrated in less than a week. A priest was killed and days later, on...

Faruku Hassan Bunza, a Nigerian judge abducted from his home in Bunza town by unidentified gunmen on July 26, has been freed, police said...

Gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, have invaded a Catholic Church in Enugu State and abducted a seminarian and two other worshipper. One of...

Kidnappings have become a major source of income for armed groups in Nigeria, including jihadists in the northeast and criminal gangs known ...

Islamic terrorists, suspected to be Boko Haram or the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), abducted the wife of a pastor and their...

The 46 children and teachers that were abducted on May 15th in southwestern state of Oyo were rescued and reunited with their families on...

Aliyu Saheed feared he might not see his three young sons again. For nearly two months after al-Qaida-linked fighters carried out a mass abd...

At least 37 people, most of them children, remain missing after gunmen abducted them from a school in northeastern Nigeria. The attackers...

Historically, the image of a typical Southern Nigerian farmer was never complete without the muturu cattle breed grazing quietly behind the ...

  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...

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

Across the Sahel region, where many Fulani herders have historically lived, rising temperatures, drought and desertification have reduced ...

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 ...

Gunmen have killed at least 29 people in northeastern Nigeria , a state governor said Monday, with locals saying the attackers targeted youn...

Eight children are still missing after gunmen raided an unregistered orphanage in Nigeria's north-central Kogi State and kidnapped 23, a...

The police have confirmed the abduction of 15 passengers on the Calabar-Oron waterways. Some gunmen, on Friday, ambushed a ferry travelling...