Suspected Islamic extremists have abducted about 100 female students from a school in north-east Nigeria, officials said.

A radical Muslim sect attacked a church worship service in Nigeria’s north-east during assaults that killed at least 15 people, authorities said today, as Christians vowed to defend themselves from the group’s widening sectarian fight against the country’s government.

Members of a radical Muslim sect attacked a church in north-east Nigeria during a worship service, part of a series of assaults that killed at least 13 people, authorities said.

At least 25 people were killed today when an explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria’s capital.