Boko Haram insurgency
Some 14 Million In Northeast Nigeria May Need Humanitarian Aid In 2017
Around 14 million people will need humanitarian help in the former northeast Nigerian stronghold region of Boko Haram...
Nigeria’s Presidency Deny Paying $21million Ransom For Chibok Girls Release
The Presidency has described as untrue and unfair media reports which claimed renewed attacks in Borno State were as a...
Bomb Blast By Nigeria Barracks In Maiduguri
A bomb has exploded behind one of the military barracks in Nigeria’s north-eastern city of Maiduguri. The BBC's...
‘Boko Haram’ Features On Al Jazeera Thursday Night
International media started paying attention to Boko Haram in April 2014 when the group abducted over 250 school girls...
The Boko Haram Menace And The Inactions of The International Community
The struggle against the evil extremist Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria suffered a terrible setback last week with the...
Nigerians Pay Tribute To ‘war King’ Killed By Boko Haram
Tributes are being paid to a Nigerian army commander nicknamed "war king" after he was killed by Islamist militants...
Nigerian Army Rescues Another Chibok Girl
The Nigerian Army says that it has rescued another one of the girls abducted from the Government Secondary School...
Nigeria Investigates Reports That Officials Raped Displaced Women
Nigeria has launched an investigation into reports alleging that government officials raped and sexually abused women...
Buhari Orders Investigation Over ‘sex Abuse’
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse at camps where women...
Nigerian Officials ‘sexually Abusing’ Victims
Women and girls in several camps in the Nigerian town of Maiduguri are being sexually abused by officials, a rights...
Nigeria-Boko Haram-Missing Soldiers Story
In a story Oct. 23 about 83 missing Nigerian soldiers, The Associated Press erroneously quoted senior military...
Widows of Victims of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Say Aid Overdue
After her husband was killed by a Boko Haram suicide bomber late last year, Hajjagana Mbasaru was forced to pull her...
83 Nigerian Soldiers Missing In Boko Haram Attack
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Some 83 Nigerian soldiers are missing in action since Boko Haram Islamic extremists...
Boko Haram Overruns Nigerian Military Base In Northeast
Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists have overrun a remote military camp in the northeast, leaving 13 soldiers...
Nigeria Denies Boko Haram Prisoner Swap
Boko Haram seized 276 pupils from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok on April 14, 2014. Fifty-seven...
Boko Haram Frees 21 Chibok Girls
Boko Haram militants handed over 21 missing Chibok schoolgirls to the Nigerian government Thursday morning, according...
Group of Chibok Schoolgirls ‘freed’ In Nigeria
Twenty-one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been freed, a senior Nigerian government official has...
Nigerian Lawmakers To Probe Use of Funds For People Fleeing Boko Haram
The use of Nigerian government funds earmarked for assisting displaced people who are living in desperate conditions in...
Living In Fear of Boko Haram Suicide Bombers In Far North Cameroon
Maroua (Cameroon) (AFP) - With his finger on the trigger, ready to fire his weapon in an instant, a policeman keeps an...