About 19 people were killed and 17 others injured in a suicide bombing in north-east Nigeria, a day before the president visited another town hit by violence.

Nobel prizewinner Malala Yousafzai has called on world leaders to do more to free hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped 300 days ago.

Boko Haram extremists have kidnapped about 40 boys and young men in north-east Nigeria, fleeing residents reported.

The leader of Nigeria’s Islamic extremist group denies agreeing to a ceasefire and says more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls have all converted to Islam and been married off.

There are reports dozens of men and boys have been abducted in north-east Nigeria.

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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.

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.

The search for missing schoolgirls in Nigeria is being supported by US surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft.

Islamic extremists blew up a bridge, killed an unknown number of people, and abducted the wife and children of a retired police officer in north-east Nigeria over the weekend as as an international effort got underway to rescue 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militants.

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.

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

Suspected Islamic extremists have targeted two Christian villages in mainly Muslim north-east Nigeria and killed at least 12 civilians, including guests at a wedding reception, witnesses said.

Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories and torching classrooms in an ongoing Islamic uprising in north-east Nigeria, the school’s provost said.

Suspected Islamic militants gunned down students as they slept and killed as many as 50 in an early-morning attack in north-east Nigeria, a college provost said.

At least 30 people were killed when nomadic Muslim herdsmen attacked a Christian village in central Nigeria over long-running land disputes, police said today.

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.

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.

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.

At least 19 people have died in a series of bombings and shootings in north-east Nigeria, witnesses said.

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.