Washington: The US government on Thursday announced that it had designated the head of the main branch of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram a “global...
Abuja: At least 25 people have been killed and several others injured when a radical Islamist sect ‘Boko Haram’ unleashed multiple attacks in northeastern Nigeria,...
Kano: At least four suspected Islamist militants, belonging to Boko Haram, were killed during a dawn raid conducted by Nigerian troops on one of the...
Abuja: At least three people were killed and several others wounded when a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives outside a church in central Nigeria...
Maiduguri: Sixteen suspected militants from the Islamic sect Boko Haram have been shot dead by Nigerian security forces in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri....
Abuja: Nigerian Defence Minister  Bello Mohammed said that a U.S. Congress push to designate Nigerian militant group Boko Haram a “foreign terrorist organisation” would not...
Abuja: The Nigerian police on Monday arrested a man who tried to smuggle grenades and rifle ammunition into Nigeria’s Information Ministry where ministers were attending...
Abuja: At least two guards were killed and several inmates were freed when militants stormed a prison in their northeastern heartland on Friday, in the...
Kano: A police inspector was fatally shot dead by unidentified gunmen suspected of belonging to the Boko Haram Islamist sect outside his home in northern...