The US, Britain and France are sending specialist teams to search for the missing schoolgirls, while China has pledged to provide satellite info.
Boko Haram insurgents have killed 41 pupils in an attack on a school in Nigeria’s Yobe state.
Islamist group Boko Haram have been accused of being suspects in the latest attacks on government buildings in the north of Nigeria.
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 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.
Hundreds of people have fled their homes in northeast Nigeria in fear, following deadly all-night gun battles between Islamists and security forces.
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.
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.
Nigerian cops are investigating a series of blasts that followed President Goodluck Jonathan’s inauguration, including bombs that ri
Fresh bomb blasts jolted Nigeria on Tuesday as the country went to the polls for state governors’ elections.
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.
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Thursday that deadly post-poll unrest recalled the build-up to the Nigerian civil war.
Post-election riots in Nigeria left many dead, thousands displaced and hundreds wounded on Tuesday amid claims that bodies had been thrown into wells.
An outbreak of post-poll rioting in northern Nigeria left many dead overnight, after President Goodluck Jonathan appealed for unity following his win.
Thousands of people from more than 30 flooded villages in northwestern Nigeria faced shortages of food and shelter on Wednesday.
