Nineteen people have been killed in a series of attacks by Boko Haram suicide bombers, police in Nigeria said.

The first of more than 200 schoolgirls missing for over two years after they were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in Chibok in northeast Nigeria has been found, a parents group and local officials said.

The Foreign Affairs Committee will meet with newly appointed Ambassador of Nigeria to Ireland today to look at the development of trade links between Ireland and Nigeria.

HEAVILY armed troops and tanks patrolled the streets of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria yesterday, witnesses said, after the president declared a state of emergency in parts of the north affected by an Islamist insurgency.