More than 80 people have been reported missing in Nigeria after being abducted by armed gangs, a media report said, as authorities announced...

Residents of Nigeria's north-central Niger protested on Monday over the abduction of hundreds of people who they said remained in captiv...

Families in Nigeria’s Borno State continue to search for loved ones who have disappeared, as the world marks the International Day of the...

The mass abduction of hundreds of people from mosques in northern Nigeria this month was at once shocking and yet unsurprising: The targetin...

A SBM Intelligence report found that 7,825 people were kidnapped in Nigeria in the 12 months to June — a 66% rise on the previous year. Th...

  Armed groups in Nigeria collected nearly $6 million in ransom payments over the past year, as kidnappings surged across Africa’s most pop...

An armed group has posted a video appearing to show hundreds of people kidnapped from a mosque in Nigeria's Niger State. Sub-Saharan ...

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu ordered the military ​and other security agencies on Tuesday to launch an immediate rescue operation after s...

Kidnappers have released a video of what appears to be a large group of people being held captive by armed men in a forested area in Nigeria...

Extremists attacked and abducted a number of worshippers in Nigeria's Niger State, authorities said on Saturday. Police said the armed ...

  Parents of children abducted from Nigeria's northeastern Borno state protested in Uba town on Thursday, demanding the federal governme...

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

More than 300 people who had been kidnapped across Nigeria have been freed in an intelligence and security operation, the government has ann...

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...

Two months after they were abducted in southwestern Nigeria, dozens of students and teachers have been rescued, the presidency says. In a s...