Boko Haram militants dressed as soldiers slaughtered at least 200 civilians in three villages in north-eastern Nigeria and the military failed to intervene even though it was warned that an attack was imminent, witnesses said.

It is understood the search for 276 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria is closing in on a forest near the eastern border.

The military says a petrol tanker has crashed into a Nigerian army convoy killing 45 troops and injuring others.

The Nigerian Defence Ministry has asked 40 top army officials to retire, a Nigerian defence spokesman said today, two months after the country swore in a new president.

Two American oil workers were killed when a speedboat full of gunmen fired on a boat carrying the employees in Nigeria’s violence-wracked oil delta, an army spokesman said today.

Two American oil workers were killed when a speedboat full of gunmen fired on a boat carrying the employees in Nigeria’s violence-wracked oil delta, an army spokesman said today.

A soldier from the Nigerian army has killed seven people in an attack on Muslim worshippers near the army barracks in Kaduna state.

Armed men dressed in military uniforms massacred more than 200 people in central Nigeria after rebels killed 19 soldiers in the region, according to reports today.