The president of Nigeria is to meet with 82 Chibok schoolgirls freed this weekend after being kidnapped three years ago by Boko Haram.

Nigerian security officials say they have thwarted plans by Boko Haram members to attack the embassies of the United States and Britain.

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.

The hype around the La Liga ‘Clasico’ between Barcelona and Real Madrid continues to burst through all barriers — with millions worldwide due to tune in this afternoon to see Lionel Messi and company take on Cristiano Ronaldo and his colleagues.

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.

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.

Two Nigerian priests have now been formally appointed to Irish parishes.

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

The slaying of hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent Nigerians has not garnered the sort of outrage the Paris attacks did. Why is this so, asks Áine Carroll

Nigeria’s government said Islamic extremists from Boko Haram have agreed to an immediate ceasefire.

Pakistani rights activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, has pledged while on a trip to Nigeria to help free a group of schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants.

At least eight people have been killed in an explosion which rocked a shopping centre in the Nigerian capital Abuja.

Many schools in Nigeria have closed to protest against the abduction of schoolgirls by Boko Haram, the government’s failure to rescue them and the killing of scores of teachers by the Islamic extremists.

Two car bombs have exploded at a bustling bus terminal and market in Nigeria's central city of Jos, killing at least 46 people, according to police.

A car bomb exploded killing four people in a Christian part of Nigeria’s second biggest city Kano, police said.

Residents in a village in Nigeria from where more than 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped have criticised the country's president for not turning up on a planned visit.

Nigerian security officials failed to act on a warning about a militant group’s raid on a boarding school that led to the abduction of more than 300 girls, Amnesty International says.

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight girls from a village near one of their strongholds in northeastern Nigeria overnight, police and residents said yesterday.

Delegates at the World Economic Forum on Africa will be isolated from reality on the ground, says Pascal Fletcher.

Britain has offered assistance to Nigeria to help respond to the kidnap of about 300 schoolgirls by Islamist militants, Foreign Secretary William Hague has said.

All schools and government offices in Nigeria’s capital will close during a three-day international conference next week, according to a presidential order that follows two bomb attacks in three weeks that killed nearly 100 people in Abuja.

A British Airways plane has had to make an emergency landing after a passenger went into premature labour and gave birth on board as the aircraft touched down.

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

Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors, a civil society group claims.

Some 234 girls are missing from a Nigerian school attacked last week by Islamic extremists – significantly more than the 85 reported by education officials, parents told the state governor today.

Scores of female students kidnapped by Islamic militants from a north-eastern Nigerian school are free, the military has reported.

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

A mob armed with wooden clubs and iron bars, screaming that they were going to “cleanse” their neighbourhood of gay people, dragged 14 young men from their beds and assaulted them, human rights activists in Nigeria said today.

Nigeria’s international airport in Abuja is closed with the runway blocked by a Saudi cargo plane, the Aviation Ministry said.

The Woolwich killers are of Nigerian background, sources have confirmed, but it is understood they are most likely to be British citizens converted to a radical form of Islam.

European diplomats said seven foreign hostages kidnapped in Nigeria had been killed as claimed by Islamic extremists, the worst such foreign abduction violence to hit the West African nation in decades.

Nigeria’s government and police remained silent today after radical Islamic fighters killed seven foreign hostages.

Gunmen attacked a camp for a construction company in rural northern Nigeria, killing a guard and kidnapping seven foreign workers from Britain, Greece, Italy, and Lebanon, authorities said.

Pope Benedict XVI has named six new cardinals, adding prelates from Lebanon, the Philippines, Nigeria, Colombia, India and the United States to the ranks of cardinals who will elect his successor.

A Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Nigeria landed safely today after the pilot discovered a problem with the aircraft’s landing gear, authorities said.

Arsenal have signed a three-year partnership with African mobile network operator Airtel for rights across five markets on the continent.

Three suicide bomb attacks on churches rocked a northern Nigerian state yesterday, killing at least 21 people and wounding about 100.

The American pilot of the passenger jet that crashed in Lagos, Nigeria, on Sunday reported engine trouble shortly before the crash, airline officials said.

Emergency workers in Nigeria fought fires and searched for bodies through the night after an airliner crashed, killing all 153 on board.

A passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed into a densely populated part of Lagos, killing all on board in what looked like a major disaster in Nigeria’s commercial hub.