Jihadists blame country’s woes on secular state and say they have al-Qaeda’s support in their fight.
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/ 29 January 2012
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists has urged residents of the flashpoint city of Kano to "persevere" as the group attacks the country’s security services.
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/ 28 January 2012
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.
Many say the attacks are not religious in nature and are an attempt to overthrow the president.
A crowd of youths have stormed a bombed Nigeria police station, vandalising property and warning that police officers returning would be killed.
Members of the Nigerian terror group Boko Haram received explosives training at al-Qaeda camps in northern Africa, Niger’s foreign minister says.
The coordinated attack in Nigeria’s second largest city by the radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram has shown its metamorphosis.
The ANC has slammed religious killings between Nigeria’s Christians and Muslims, which have claimed hundreds of lives.
Kabir Sokoto, the man accused of the attack on a Nigerian church that killed 37 people on Christmas Day, has escaped from police custody.
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/ 13 January 2012
Mosques have been burnt and two people were killed in a mainly Muslim village in the latest ethnic attack to hit Nigeria.
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/ 12 January 2012
Nigerian oil workers have threatened to halt production as a strike over fuel prices enters its fourth day and secterian tensions simmer.
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.
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/ 10 January 2012
Nigeria’s street protests against rising fuel prices have resulted in ethnic attacks, leaving five dead and 10 000 displaced since Monday.
Nigeria’s leader Goodluck Jonathan says militant group Boko Haram is the biggest security threat since civil war and has secret backers in government.
Islamists Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for attacks in Nigeria amid growing concern about government’s inability to tackle sectarian violence.
Nigeria is braced for mass protests after fuel prices more than doubled at the weekend, amid stark Boko Haram threats against Christians in the north.
Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has threatened Christians in the north and threatened troops after the president declared a state of emergency.
Nigeria has begun the new year under a state of emergency in areas targeted by terror attacks as soldiers flood the streets of violence-hit cities.
President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Saturday in parts of Nigeria plagued by a violent Islamist insurgency.
Church leaders in Nigeria say Muslim extremists have made a "declaration of war" on Christians after a series of fatal attacks by Boko Haram.
Six children and an adult have been hurt in a blast at an Arabic school in Nigeria, after deadly Christmas Day attacks on churches around the country.
A Muslim leader has tried to calm tensions in Nigeria after deadly Christmas Day attacks claimed by Islamists that risk inflaming sectarian divisions.
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/ 26 December 2011
Christian shops were burnt and hundreds of residents sought to flee one violence-torn city in Nigeria’s north-east, residents have said.
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/ 25 December 2011
Boko Haram says it planted bombs that exploded on Christmas Day at churches in Nigeria, one of which killed at least 27 people just outside Abuja.
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/ 25 December 2011
A bomb has exploded in a Catholic church on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria, with a shortage in ambulances hampering the evacuation process.
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/ 24 December 2011
The death toll following violence over the past two days in northern Nigeria has risen sharply from seven to 46, medical sources have said.
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/ 13 December 2011
A powerful explosion has rocked the violence-torn Nigerian city of Maiduguri, epicentre of violence blamed on the Islamist sect known as Boko Haram.
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/ 12 November 2011
A Nigerian youth leader says armed police officers stopped his group’s planned protest in Abuja over a state proposal to remove fuel subsidies.
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.
The US says Boko Haram could attack three luxury hotels in Abuja after a report that more than 100 people have been killed in Nigeria since Friday.
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/ 10 September 2011
Fresh overnight attacks killed at least 15 people in Nigeria, the latest in a wave of recent killings in an area beset by sectarian violence.
Nigerian authorities say the man behind the attack on UN headquarters in Abuja last week is the al-Qaeda-linked Boko Haram sect’s Mamman Nur.