At least 18 people were killed by a car bomb that ripped through the United Nations’ building in
the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday.
A public university says it is closing indefinitely after receiving bomb threats from a radical Muslim sect in Nigeria’s restive northeast.
At least 25 people were killed on Sunday when suspected Islamists threw a bomb and fired on a beer garden in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri.
Africa’s most populous nation — roughly divided into a Muslim north and Christian south with sizeable minorities living in both regions — is full of
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/ 7 February 2011
A radical Muslim sect responsible for killings across northeastern Nigeria demanded on Monday that troops withdraw from the troubled region.
Boko Haram, said to be linked to al-Qaeda,
is a growing threat to stability in the country
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/ 9 September 2010
Police on Thursday hunted hundreds of inmates who escaped when suspected Islamists used machine guns and bombs in a Nigerian prison attack.
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/ 8 September 2010
An attack on a prison in northern Nigeria by suspected members of an Islamist sect freed 732 inmates, the state prisons head said on Wednesday.
A leader of a radical Muslim sect that started a rampage that left 700 people dead in Nigeria has allegedly issued threat calling for new violence.
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/ 30 December 2009
A fresh surge of violence between Islamist militants and security forces in northern Nigeria has left at least 38 people dead, officials said.
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/ 21 September 2009
Members of an Islamist sect that staged an uprising in Nigeria in which at least 800 people died are preparing further attacks, an official says.
Samuel Yunana’s father was taken from his home, stabbed in the side of the stomach and told to convert to Islam. When he refused, his throat was slit.
Nigerian authorities swept dozens of bodies into mass graves on Sunday in the grisly aftermath of last week’s Islamist uprising that killed hundreds.
More than 600 people were killed last week in clashes between the security forces and members of a radical Islamic sect in the city of Maiduguri.
Residents ventured on to the streets of the Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday after the authorities cleared the bodies of hundreds of victims.