An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) allegedly planted by suspected Boko Haram members on Sunday exploded at a popular market, Gamboru Market in Maiduguri, leaving four persons critically injured, a member of the youth vigilante group in the town, Yunus Kaka has said.‬ ‪It would be recalled t...

Two Yobe towns, Fika and Ngalda, were on Saturday attacked by the Boko Haram insurgents that were on a looting spree, the chairman of Fika Local Government Area of Yobe State, Alhaji Baba Abare, told journalists on Sunday. According to Abare, the militants shot sporadically on arriving at the two...

The United Nations High Commission for Refugee (UNHCR), Nigeria, says it will train its staff and partners on protection of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the country. In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by Mr Hanson Tamfu, External Relations Officer, UNHCR, the commission said ...

Boko Haram militants have slit the throats of 12 people in northeast Nigeria as the army was trying to evacuate civilians from the area, a military source and a witness said on Friday. The Islamist group has been driven out of much of the huge swathe of territory they controlled at the start of the...

Nigerian forces in the area had advance warning of more than four hours. As foreign experts begin to arrive the country to help the Nigerian military in the search of the over 250 girls kidnapped from the Government College, Chibok, 24 days ago, global human rights organisation, Amnesty Internati...

AUN-API organized a special pre-Easter food distribution on Thursday April 2, for nearly 6,000 Internally Displaced Persons, all women. This event, which took place at St Teresa Catholic Cathedral, Jimeta, had members of the University community as volunteers. Having lost family members, their bu...

UNICEF said on Monday that no fewer than 800,000 children have fled their homes in north-eastern Nigeria because of the activities Boko Haram insurgents. UNICEF’s regional director for West and Central Africa, Manuel Fontaine, told newsmen in Berlin that the number of child refugees has over doub...

Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai on Monday criticised Nigerian and world leaders for not doing enough to help free 219 schoolgirls kidnapped a year ago by Boko Haram militants. “In my opinion, Nigerian leaders and the international community have not done enough to help you,” she said in a l...

The Nigerian soldiers on Tuesday successfully completed a raid on all terrorists’ camps in Alagarno in Borno State, which is one of the few remaining towns to be liberated from the Boko Haram sect. This was confirmed on Tuesday by the Director of Defence Information (DDI), Maj-Gen. Chris Olukolad...

The two-day meeting, which holds in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, is to prepare for a Heads of State summit this week. The countdown for the end of insurgency by the Nigeria-based terrorist sect, Boko Haram, has begun. Defence and Foreign Affairs Ministers from member countries of the Economic Commu...