Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 21:34
Nigeria`s military on Friday confirmed that it was to release 167 people who were detained as part of counter-insurgency operations against Boko Haram militants in three northeast states.
Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 07:53
Nigeria`s troops in northeast state of Borno said Thursday that 38 Boko Haram suspects were killed after it successfully repelled an attack on Damboa community in by suspected Boko Haram fighters.
Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 05:35
Nigeria and Britain on Thursday signed a "compulsory prisoner transfer" agreement, allowing their nationals jailed in the other country to serve the rest of their time behind bars back home.
Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 04:00
Authorities in Nigeria`s central Plateau state said that 34 people were killed in a brutal village raid in the centre of the country, in a revised death toll after the attack earlier this week.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 16:03
The father of a state governor who defected from Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan`s ruling party escaped unhurt after gunmen attacked a mosque in his village, police said on Wednesday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 12:03
Nigeria`s police authority in central north state of Plateau Tuesday confirmed 16 people dead in an attack on Shonong community, consisting of four villages in the restive state.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 20:56
Survivors and a legislator say 30 villagers were killed, in an attack on a mainly Christian village in ongoing ethnic and religious strife in central Nigeria.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 03:44
Gunmen killed 30 people in a village in central Nigeria on Monday, officials said, in a religiously-mixed region with a long history of ethnic and communal violence.
Last Updated: Friday, January 3, 2014, 07:24
The volume of oil theft in oil rich Nigeria`s Niger Delta region has reduced from 100,000 barrels to 40,00 barrels per day, the governor of oil rich Delta State said Thursday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 1, 2014, 15:44
he chaos triggered by the brutal murder of 35-year-old Nigerian Simeon Obobo, allegedly by a rival drug mafia in Goa, and the subsequent arson has died out.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 08:49
At least 63 Boko Haram fighters were killed during Nigerian army`s raids following a recent pre-dawn attack on military barracks in Bama town by the militant sect in the northern state of Borno, a military spokesperson said Monday.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 05:34
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