A gas-fuelled fire, with flames as high as 5m, may burn for months in waters off the Niger Delta in south-east Nigeri...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria arrived in Senegal on Tuesday to mediate the country's political impass...

Intelligence agencies say young extremists are travelling to training camps in Somalia as they once did in Afghanista...

Nigerian troops killed eight suspected Islamist militants on Monday who had opened fire on a market in the northeaste...

Nigerian security forces say they have killed at least eight members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in fig...

There are millions of boys sent off to ramshackle Islamic schools by impoverished parents. Now, the government is wor...

Legal case involved 40 youngsters who were locked up in adult units under Home Office policy deemed to be unlawful Th...

The sect, Boko Haram, said it had freed seven followers in the attack on Wednesday evening in the town of Koton-Karif...

Authorities in Nigeria say 32 people have been killed in a head-on crash between two buses.

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