Nearly half a million children will face starvation in north-eastern Nigeria next year and 80,000 will die unless they receive treatment, amid the humanitarian crisis created by Boko Haram's Islamic uprising, the United Nations' children's agency has warned.

A second girl believed to be among those kidnapped by Islamic extremists from a school in Nigeria has been rescued, the military said.

The first kidnapped schoolgirl to escape from Islamic extremist group Boko Haram’s stronghold in the Sambisa Forest has been flown to Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, to meet the country’s president.

David Cameron has called Nigeria and Afghanistan "possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world".

Oil giant Shell is “blatantly false” when it claims it is cleaning up spills that continue to destroy the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Nigerians, Amnesty International has said.

Nigerian troops have driven Boko Haram extremists out of an abandoned north-eastern primary school in a shootout that killed four militants.

Suicide bombs have killed at least 64 people in multiple blasts in north-eastern Nigeria, according to officials.

Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists are offering to free more than 200 young women and girls kidnapped from a boarding school in the town of Chibok in exchange for the release of militant leaders held by the government, a human rights activist said.

On the first anniversary of the kidnapping by Islamic extremists of hundreds of girls from a school in northeast Nigeria, president-elect Muhammadu Buhari said he cannot promise to find the 219 who are still missing.

Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has conceded victory to challenger Muhammadu Buhari.

A car bomb has exploded at a polling station in Nigeria’s south-central Enugu state as people gathered to vote in a presidential election.

Nigeria’s electoral commission is to postpone presidential and legislative elections for six weeks to give a new multinational force time to secure north-eastern areas under the sway of Boko Haram, an official has said.

NIGERIA lacks competent leaders to tackle its security problems, a former military ruler said yesterday, after Christmas Day bomb attacks on churches by Islamist militants that killed more than two dozen people.

Riots broke out again in Nigeria’s Muslim north today, 24 hours after protesters set fire to churches and homes of ruling party supporters when national election results showed that the Christian candidate had won.

Nigeria's president called for calm and national unity today after violent riots swept across the country's Muslim north, forcing thousands to flee in the wake of the presidential election.

Rioting erupted in Nigeria’s Muslim north today as official election results likely to keep a Christian leader in charge were being prepared for release.

Nigeria's opposition has warned that a "massive revolt" will take place unless newly re-elected President Olusegun Obasanjo resigns and lets authorities launch a new round of corruption-free voting.

NIGERIA’S newly re-elected President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday ignored a torrent of claims that his spectacular victory was achieved by crude vote-rigging.

Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged opposition parties to "accept defeat gracefully" and drop threats of massive protests over balloting they say was rigged, following his landslide re-election.

International observers said today that stolen ballot boxes and fudged tallies could compromise Nigerians’ confidence in presidential elections held over the weekend.

International observers said today that stolen ballot boxes and fudged tallies could compromise Nigerians’ confidence in presidential elections held over the weekend.

PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo took a commanding lead in early returns from voting that could bring Nigeria’s first successful transition from one civilian government to another, but the main opposition party claimed the vote was rigged and a “huge joke”.

A Nigerian opposition politician today accused the ruling party of “massive rigging” in presidential elections that showed the incumbent Olusegun Obasanjo with an overwhelming lead.

PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo surged ahead of his main challenger, Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday in partial returns from Nigeria’s presidential elections, which were marred

NIGERIA’S police chief, worried that violence could disrupt today’s presidential election, yesterday warned “thugs” that his 250,000 officers would show no mercy to anyone who disrupted voting.