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Call For Boko Haram Peace Talks Masks Ethnic Tensions

A group of community elders in northeast Nigeria where Boko Haram has waged a bloody eight-year insurgency are urging...

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Boko Haram Attacks Military Bases In Northeast Nigeria

Boko Haram jihadists believed to be from the IS-supported faction loyal to Abu Mus'ab Al-Barnawi have attacked three...

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Nigerian Widows Seek To Sue Shell In Dutch Courts

Four Nigerian women are taking legal action in the Dutch courts against Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell accusing it of...

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UN Warns Against Refugee Returns To Nigeria From Cameroon

The UN voiced alarm Wednesday at the many Nigerian refugees returning from Cameroon to Banki, a border town clouded by...

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Boko Haram Claims Deadly Attack On Nigerian City

Islamist insurgency Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the attack on Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri...

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Suspected Boko Haram Jihadists Kill Vigilantes In Nigeria

Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed six people fighting alongside the military in two separate incidents in northeast...

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US Court Battle Gives Clues To Nigerian Arms Scandal

The claims read like the plot of a best-selling thriller, with secretive arms dealers and a corruption-riddled...

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The Orphans of Boko Haram

After a night on the streets, the pack of young boys move into Maiduguri's abandoned amusement park in the early...

International

Boko Haram Releases Video of Purported Chibok Girls

Boko Haram released a video late on Friday claiming to show the Chibok school girls who refused to be rescued as part...

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Boko Haram Releases Video of Purported Chibok Girl

Boko Haram late on Friday released a video claiming to show the Chibok schoolgirls who refused to be rescued as part of...

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A Nigerian Border Town Choked By Boko Haram Homeless

The Nigerianarmy calls it "New Banki City", an optimistic name conjuring up visions of modern housing. The reality is...

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Boko Haram Leader Shekau ‘injured In Air Strike’

Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau has been injured and one of his deputies killed in an air strike in northeast...

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Rise In Boko Haram Child Suicide Bombers ‘alarming’

An "alarming" number of children, most of them girls, have been used by Boko Haram as suicide bombers in the first...

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Trump Administration ‘to Sell Nigeria Planes’ For Boko Haram Fight

The Trump administration plans to sell fighter planes to Nigeria despite concerns over rights abuses and a botched air...

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Four Dead In NE Nigeria Suicide Bombing

Four people were killed on Saturday evening when suicide bombers blew themselves up in a village on the outskirts of...

International

Thousands of Nigerians Trapped By Conflict Amid Worsening Humanitarian Crisis

Thousands of people in northeastern Nigeria remain beyond the reach of aid, Doctors Without Borders said. Many of them...

International

Trump Calls Presidents of Nigeria, South Africa

President Donald Trump has been increasingly chatting with other world leaders during his first weeks in office. On...

Opinion

How President Buhari Is Dealing With Nigerians

President Muhammad Buhari is such a lucky president who came at the time of need; though he had seen; he is attempting...

Politics

Nigeria Air Strike Error Kills Dozens In Refugee Camp

A Nigerian military jet has mistakenly bombed a camp for displaced people in the north-east, killing at least 52 people...