Twin explosions from female suicide bombers suspected to be with Boko Haram have killed nine people and injured 24 in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri, officials and witnesses said.

Boko Haram has murdered 600 teachers and displaced 19,000 in an effort to stop children getting the education they need to break the cycle of poverty, writes AnneMarie McCarthy       

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.

At least 30 people were killed when Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck the north-east Nigerian city of Maiduguri with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers, witnesses said.

Suspected Islamic extremists detonated three explosive devices in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, in Nigeria’s north east – killing eight people.

Extremists detonated three explosive devices in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, in Nigeria’s north-east.

Nigerian troops have rescued 178 people from Boko Haram in attacks that destroyed several of the Islamic extremist group’s camps in the north east, according to the army.

Nigeria’s home-grown Boko Haram group, newly weakened by a multinational force that has dislodged it from a score of north-eastern towns, has reportedly pledged formal allegiance to the Islamic State group.

Suspected Boko Haram fighters killed at least 34 and injured several others in attacks on villages near Chibok and Konduga in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state earlier this week, according to residents and local officials.

Nigerian troops have repelled Islamic extremists who attacked from four fronts on Maiduguri, the biggest city in north-east Nigeria, with several civilians killed by aerial bombs, and grenades and mortar shells on the ground.

That US secretary of state John Kerry’s Davos call for an international plan to confront the roots of terrorism came as Japan faced the fact that Islamic State terrorists murdered a Japanese hostage; that Boko Haram attacked Nigeria’s major north-eastern city of Maiduguri, and as Spanish police arrested four people suspected of belonging to a militant Islamic network underlines the urgency around the proposal.

As Islamic militants from Boko Haram step up attacks in Nigeria that have led to the slaughter of more civilians, there is increasing talk that international military action, possibly including a multinational force, may be needed to help crush the insurgency in Africa’s most populous country.

At least three people have been killed and dozens more injured in twin suicide bomb attacks in Nigeria.

Hundreds of bodies remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested is the deadliest massacre in the history of Boko Haram.

Twelve soldiers fighting an Islamic insurgency in Nigeria have been sentenced to death by firing squad for mutiny and attempted murder of their commanding officer.

Nigeria’s Islamic extremists of Boko Haram have seized more towns along Nigeria’s northeastern border with Cameroon and are adopting a new strategy of encouraging civilians to stay, witnesses said, as the militants pursue their new aim to carve out an "Islamic caliphate" under their black and white flag.

Boko Haram extremists have killed more than 100 people in Nigeria, according to a civil defence spokesman.

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.

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.

Villagers in an area of Nigeria where Boko Haram operates have killed and detained scores of extremist Islamic militants suspected of planning a fresh attack.

Villagers in an area of Nigeria where Boko Haram operates have killed and detained scores of the Islamic militants who were suspected of planning a fresh attack, residents and a security official said.

Nigeria’s military had four hours’ advanced warning of the April 14 attack by Boko Haram that led to the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls but failed to take immediate action, Amnesty International said.

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.

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.

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.

Gunmen have killed six people attending a Christmas Mass in Nigeria.

At least 20 students have been killed in an attack outside a college campus in Nigeria’s troubled north-east.

Journalists in Nigeria, already the target of threats and bribes, face a new danger after a radical Islamist sect bombed the offices of a major newspaper and vowed to “hit the media hard” in Africa’s most populous nation.

HEAVILY armed troops and tanks patrolled the streets of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria yesterday, witnesses said, after the president declared a state of emergency in parts of the north affected by an Islamist insurgency.

Nigeria’s president has declared a state of emergency in parts of the West African nation after a slew of recent attacks blamed on a radical Muslim sect.

Terror attacks across Nigeria by a radical Muslim sect killed at least 39 people – the majority dying on the steps of a church after celebrating Christmas Mass as blood pooled in dust from a massive explosion.

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

A RADICAL Muslim sect responsible for attacks that left more than 100 people dead in north-east Nigeria at the weekend could bomb three luxury hotels frequented by foreigners in oil-rich nation’s capital, the US Embassy warned yesterday.

An attack by a radical Muslim sect which killed at least 69 people in north-east Nigeria has been condemned by the United Nations.

At least 67 people died in a wave of bombings and shootings carried out in north-east Nigeria overnight, officials said today, as frightened mourners left their homes to begin burying their dead.

SUSPECTED members of a radical Islamist sect threw bombs at a drinking spot in Nigeria’s north-eastern town of Maiduguri yesterday, killing around 25 people, witnesses and military sources said.

A bomb tore through a bar in a military barracks in Nigeria’s restive Muslim north, killing 10 people just hours after a southern Christian president was inaugurated.

Multiple blasts have rocked a city in Nigeria's restive north east where a radical Muslim sect is accused of a rash of targeted killings, authorities said.

Nigerian voters are deciding whether to keep their accidental president in power, though unease among the country’s Muslims about the Christian leader could force a runoff in the oil-rich country where elections have long been marred by fraud and violence.

Muslim extremists may have planted a bomb which struck an army barracks in Nigeria’s capital, the country’s president said today, highlighting the dangers and confusion still gripping a nation beset by violence in recent weeks.

Dozens of armed men attacked a Nigerian church on Christmas Eve, dragging the pastor out of his home and shooting him to death, it has emerged today.

MORE than 700 people were killed during a five-day uprising by a radical Islamic sect in northern Nigeria and the search for bodies is continuing, Red Cross and defence officials said yesterday.