The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Head of the United Nations Office of West Africa (UNOWA), Dr...
The BBC Hausa Service has announced the winner of its first short-story competition aimed at women writers. Aisha...
Some 501 sacked Army recruits have threatened to join terrorist groups like ISIS or Boko Haram after what they say is...
Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - The embattled leader of jihadist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, resurfaced in a video posted...
A struggle within Nigeria's Islamic extremist group Boko Haram is playing out in public, with a new leader named by the...
Nigeria's Defense Headquarters on Thursday dismissed the reported change in the leadership of the terrorist group Boko...
A 36-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker has been beaten to death after stepping in to defend his wife from an apparently...
The Nigeria Army reported today its soldiers last night staged an ambush of Boko Haram terrorists, killing two of them...
The Boko Haram sect threatened Buhari in a new video released some hours ago, where the leader of the terrorist group...
Niger's government said on Thursday that Boko Haram militants killed 18 people, including a local religious leader, in...
Four civilians were killed in northern Cameroon on Saturday in a suicide bomb assault by suspected Boko Haram militants...
This week, the world’s deadliest terror group wrought extraordinary carnage on crowds of people going about their...
A night-time explosion blamed on Boko Haram extremists killed 32 people and wounded 80 Tuesday at a truck stop in...
Chad has declared a state of emergency in the Lake Chad region after attacks by Boko Haram militants from Nigeria. The...
Brigadier General Sampson Adeti, General Officer Commander of the Southern Command of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF),...
Nigerian military have successfully rescued 338 captives mostly women and children, from Boko Haram camps in a forest...
Islamist Boko Haram militants disguised as preachers killed at least 24 people and wounded several others in an attack...
Nigeria's election commission on Saturday postponed presidential and legislative elections for six weeks due to...