Abuja: Boko Haram militants killed five people in two separate attacks in the northeast Nigerian city of Gombe Sunday, witnesses said.One of the attacks, by a suspected suicide bomber, targeted a military checkpoint in the
Abuja: The Boko Haram militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Baga village in Nigeria earlier this month in which hundreds of people were killed, media reported on Wednesday.The group also threatened
Nigeria: A woman who was giving birth to a baby boy was killed by the Boko Haram terrorists in North- east Nigeria.The militants started shooting “indiscriminately”, killing small children and even a woman who was
Lagos: At least 3,200 people were displaced in the Nigerian state of Borno after attacks by Boko Haram militants last week in the town of Baga, Nigeria's emergency management agency said Monday.The National Emergency Management
New Delhi: At least 16 people have been killed and several injured by a bomb strapped to a girl reported to be aged about 10 in the city of Maiduguri of Nigeria, police say.“The explosive
United Nations: Around 7,300 Nigerian refugees have fled to the neighbouring Chad, over the last 10 days, following violence in northeastern Nigeria, the UN said Friday.Citing the UN Refugee Agency, UN deputy spokesperson, Farhan Haq,
Kano (Nigeria): Boko Haram, a militant Islamist movement based in Nigeria, destroyed at least 16 towns and villages after capturing a key military base in Northeast Nigeria today, according to officials.Musa Bukar, head of the
Abuja: An explosion at a market in Nigeria's northeastern state of Bauchi on Monday, killed at least 15 people, witnesses said.According to a witness, the explosion occurred near a police outpost inside the busy market,
Maiduguri, Nigeria :A new video from Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram extremists shows gunmen mowing down civilians lying face down in a dorm, and a leader saying they are being killed because they are “infidels” or
Abuja: At least 10 people were killed Monday in twin bomb blasts at a market in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the capital of northeastern Borno state, media reported.The two bombs went off at mid-morning
Abuja: Members of Nigeria's armed terrorist group Boko Haram have killed 48 people in an attack on fish sellers near the border with Chad, a media report said on Sunday.The attack took place on Thursday,
Maiduguri (Nigeria): At least 45 people were killed in a suspected Boko Haram attack in northeast Nigeria, officials and witnesses have said, in the latest violence to hit the restive region.The attack happened in the
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday condemned the suicide attack in a boy's school in Nigeria in which 48 people were killed.In a tweet, the Prime Minister said: "The attack in Nigeria is
Maiduguri, Nigeria: The leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has denied agreeing to any cease-fire with the government and said more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls all have converted to Islam and been married
Abuja:Nigeria today claimed to have reached a deal with Boko Haram militants on a ceasefire and the release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls but doubts immediately surrounded the purported breakthrough.Chief of Defence Staff Air
Yaounde: Cameroon's President Paul Biya today vowed his government would go after the Islamist group Boko Haram "until it's totally wiped out".He made the promise as he received 10 Chinese and 17 Cameroonians freed last
Lagos: A new Boko Haram video shows the beheading of a man identified as the pilot of a missing Nigerian Air Force jet and burnt out parts of a plane the first indication that Nigeria's
Abuja: Nigerian forces have killed a man claiming to be the leader of Islamist Boko Haram militants, Abubakar Shekau, the country's defence authority said on Wednesday.Mohammed Bashir, who has been acting or posing in videos
New DElhi: Twelve Nigerian soldiers were yesterday sentenced to death for mutiny after shots were fired at their commanding officer in the restive northeast city of Maiduguri earlier this year.A nine-member military tribunal, sitting in
NEW YORK: Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday urged the United Nations to come up with a more robust strategy to combat the growing use of kidnappings of girls and women as a war tactic across
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