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World powers join search for abducted Nigerian schoolgirls
The US, Britain and France are sending specialist teams to search for the missing schoolgirls, while China has pledged to provide satellite info.
School massacre by insurgents haunts Nigerian village
Boko Haram insurgents have killed 41 pupils in an attack on a school in Nigeria’s Yobe state.
Gunmen attack Nigerian government buildings
Islamist group Boko Haram have been accused of being suspects in the latest attacks on government buildings in the north of Nigeria.
Nigeria pressured to end Boko Haram violence
Boko Haram has killed hundreds in attacks that authorities have been unable to stop, prompting calls for talks to bring an end to the bloodshed.
Eight killed as ethnic violence, fuel chaos haunt Nigeria
Eight people have been killed in Nigeria’s north and a mob has torched an Islamic school in the south amid a fuel strike and rising religious tension.
Nigerian Islamists and security forces clash again
Hundreds of people have fled their homes in northeast Nigeria in fear, following deadly all-night gun battles between Islamists and security forces.
Nigeria attack the first during state of emergency
Gunmen have attacked a police station in Nigeria, killing a teenager and wounding an officer in the first such incident during its state of emergency.
US warns of possible Nigeria attacks
The US has warned of fresh attacks in Nigeria after a wave of deadly bombings claimed by Islamists Boko Haram killed 150 people in the country.
Bomb attacks investigated after Jonathan inauguration
Nigerian cops are investigating a series of blasts that followed President Goodluck Jonathan’s inauguration, including bombs that ri
Fresh bomb blasts as Nigeria votes in wake of riots
Fresh bomb blasts jolted Nigeria on Tuesday as the country went to the polls for state governors’ elections.
Deadly blasts rock Nigerian city
Bomb blasts have killed at least three people in north-east Nigeria, police said on Monday, in the latest unrest to hit Africa’s most populous nation.
Nigeria leader says unrest recalls civil war build-up
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Thursday that deadly post-poll unrest recalled the build-up to the Nigerian civil war.
‘Bodies thrown into wells’ in Nigerian post-poll riots
Post-election riots in Nigeria left many dead, thousands displaced and hundreds wounded on Tuesday amid claims that bodies had been thrown into wells.
Nigeria rocked by deadly post-election violence
An outbreak of post-poll rioting in northern Nigeria left many dead overnight, after President Goodluck Jonathan appealed for unity following his win.
Nigerian flood victims face food shortages, disease
Thousands of people from more than 30 flooded villages in northwestern Nigeria faced shortages of food and shelter on Wednesday.