While Nigerian soldiers search the forests in the northwestern state for the 280 learners kidnapped by gunmen riding motorbikes, desperate families are still waiting for news

Nigerian troops have arrested a suspect in the country’s Christmas Day bombings, as the US put three Boko Haram leaders on its global terror list.

Street battles have continued in Kaduna, Nigeria, despite a round-the-clock curfew meant to halt the violence in which at least 101 people have died.

Deadly violence between Christians and Muslims in Kaduna has flared again, adding to the more than 90 deaths in clashes in the city this week.

Samples taken from a Nigerian family suspected of contracting a fatal bird flu strain have been sent abroad so experts can determine whether the virus has jumped to humans in…

A boycott of the vaccine for polio spread to two more northern Nigerian Islamic states on Tuesday, United Nations Children’s Fund officials said, hampering a massive drive to…