- 21 May 2013 11:12 - AFP
- Pressing on with a sweeping offensive against Boko Haram militants, Nigeria's military says it re-established control in five remote areas.
- 18 May 2013 15:25 - Aminu Abubakar
- Nigeria's military has enforced a round-the-clock curfew in parts of the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, the home base of Boko Haram.
- 17 May 2013 14:24 - Haruna Umar
- Soldiers in Nigeria have shelled suspected camps of extremists in the first military action of a new offensive against insurgents, says an official.
- 17 May 2013 00:00 - Monica Mark
- President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states
- 15 May 2013 09:16 - AFP
- Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has imposed a state of emergency in three states worst hit by increasing violence by Boko Haram extremists.
- 13 May 2013 14:47 - AFP
- The purported head of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for two recent deadly attacks in the northeast in a video.
- 08 May 2013 10:46 - Sapa-AP
- Co-ordinated attacks by Islamic extremists armed with heavy machine guns have killed at least 42 people in northeast Nigeria.
- 22 Apr 2013 10:12 - Sapa-AP
- At least 185 people in a fishing community have been killed in weekend clashes between Nigeria's military and Islamic extremists.
- 11 Apr 2013 09:44 - Sapa-AFP
- The leader of Nigeria's radical Islamist group Boko Haram has rejected the presidency's idea of a potential amnesty deal to curb a bloody insurgency.
- 20 Mar 2013 09:48 - Salisu Rabiu , Yinka Ibukun,
- At least 41 people have died in a suicide car bomb attack in Kano, northern Nigeria's busiest commercial centre.
- 19 Mar 2013 08:56 - AFP
- A series of blasts targeting buses full of passengers in Kano, Nigeria has killed at least 20 people and sources say the toll is expected to rise.
- 08 Mar 2013 00:00 - Donu Kogbara
- Kidnapping in Cameroon reveals the extent of the brutality and power of the Nigerian jihadists.
- 18 Feb 2013 12:52 - Aminu Abubakar
- A construction company has evacuated its staff from a Nigeria site after gunmen blasted into the facility and kidnapped seven foreigners.
- 17 Feb 2013 15:33 - Bello Buhari
- Gunmen have kidnapped seven foreigners and killed a security guard when they stormed a construction company in Nigeria's Bauchi State, claim police.
- 26 Dec 2012 07:31 - Reuters
- Gunmen have killed six people at a church in Nigeria, making 2012 the third year that Christmas services have come under deadly attack in the country.
- 22 Dec 2012 19:15 - Salisu Rabiu , Yinka Ibukun,
- Authorities have blamed a radical Islamist sect for twin suicide car bombings targeting two major mobile phone companies
in Nigeria.
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- 05 Dec 2012 13:08 - Jon Gambrell
- More than 770 people have been killed in a spate of Boko Haram attacks in Western Africa and seem to be growing more violent.
- 28 Oct 2012 13:39 - Reuters
- A suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a church in northern Nigeria, killing three people and triggering reprisal attacks.
- 21 Oct 2012 15:02 - Sapa-AFP
- Hundreds of residents of a northeastern Nigerian city were fleeing after three days of attacks that left at least 31 dead.
