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...

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

At least 37 students remain missing after gunmen raided their school in northeast Nigeria , according to local officials. The attack occurre...

Gunmen stormed a secondary school in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state on Monday morning and abducted students while they were sitting nati...

  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...

Nigeria continues to grapple with a range of security challenges, including terrorism, kidnapping and banditry, despite ongoing military ...

  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...

The Nigerian army says it has secured the release of 360 people abducted by the Boko Haram armed group earlier this year in the country’s no...

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