Nigerian officials prevented kidnapped girls freed from more than two years of captivity by Boko Haram Islamic extremists from spending Christmas at home with their families, according to a lawyer.

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A crowd beat to death a teenage girl accused of being a suicide bomber and then set her body ablaze, according to police and witnesses at a north-eastern Nigerian market.

An explosion has rocked an area of the Nigerian capital near the site of a bombing that killed at least 75 people last month.