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

The risk of mass deaths from starvation is growing in parts of east Africa, Yemen and Nigeria due to a combination of conflict, drought and a shortfall in humanitarian aid, it has been warned.

Michael Werz and Max Hoffman say the effects of climate change, such as drought, flooding and the undermining of agriculture, are among the drivers of migration and policymakers need to face up to that.

The UN’s human rights chief has said his office has received reports that Boko Haram fighters retreating from advancing military forces in Nigeria murdered women and girls they had taken as “wives”, along with other captives.

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

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said the attacks in Paris last week were an assault not only on the people of Europe but also on people’s basic values of freedom and democracy.

More than 102 people were killed in the bomb explosions at the central mosque in Kano.

A staunchly Muslim family in northern Nigeria has forced their son into a mental hospital for declaring himself an atheist, according to a lawyer and supporters who have started an online campaign to #FreeMubarak.

Fifty-four people were killed in two attacks in northern Nigeria suspected to be by Islamic extremists, officials said.

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.

Four young men convicted of having gay sex have been whipped publicly in an Islamic court in northern Nigeria, a human rights network says.

A video posted online appears to show the bodies of some of the seven foreign hostages abducted from northern Nigeria and later killed by Islamic extremists.

A shadowy Islamic extremist group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of seven foreign building workers in northern Nigeria.

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 kidnapped seven foreign workers from a construction company, including at least one British citizen, according to officials in northern Nigeria.

Witnesses in northern Nigeria’s largest city say gunmen suspected to belong to a radical Islamic sect have opened fire on polio vaccine drives in the city, killing at least 12 people.

A suicide bomber rammed an SUV loaded with explosives into a Catholic church holding Mass on Sunday in northern Nigeria, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 100 others in an attack that sparked reprisal killings in the city, authorities and witnesses said.

Gunmen armed with rifles and machetes attacked a rural village in northern Nigeria today, killing at least 10 people, including worshippers leaving a mosque after prayers.

Suicide bombers killed 21 people in attacks on three churches in Nigeria during Sunday services, exacerbating religious tensions in a West African nation that is almost evenly divided between Muslims and Christians.

Three churches in northern Nigeria have been targeted by bomb blasts injuring dozens of worshippers.

At least six people were killed today in an attack on a university campus in northern Nigeria where Catholics were holding a worship service.

A British and Italian hostage have died in Nigeria, during a failed attempt to free them from their captors.

Gunmen have killed at least six people when they opened fire on the congregation during a prayer service at a church in Nigeria.

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.

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

One person was killed and 11 others were wounded after bombs rocked three football viewing centres in the central city of Jos in Nigeria.

A video showing a kidnapped Briton and an Italian being held by armed men apparently from an al-Qaida group, is being investigated by the UK Foreign Office.

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.

At least 800 people were killed in post election violence that swept across northern Nigeria as it became clear that a northern candidate would not succeed in unseating the southern president, an international human rights group said.

Rioters set homes on fire and youths armed with machetes set up roadblocks through a Nigerian city plagued by violence between Christians and Muslims.

LASAGNA, veal and cake were on the menu yesterday as Pope Benedict XVI invited about 250 poor people to join him for a post-Christmas lunch and denounced as “absurd” new attacks on the faithful around the globe.

Lasagne, veal and cake were on the menu today as Pope Benedict XVI invited about 250 poor people to join him for a post-Christmas lunch and denounced as "absurd" new attacks on the faithful around the globe.

Members of a radical Muslim sect shot and killed a political leader in northern Nigeria, the latest attack by a group that engineered a massive prison break last month, police said.

A radical Muslim sect used assault rifles to free more 750 prisoners in an armed attack on a Nigerian prison.

Doctors are struggling to save children stricken by lead poisoning – many of them blind, deaf and unable to walk – after poor herdsmen in northern Nigeria began illegally mining gold in an area with high concentrations.

Fighting between Islamic militants and security forces in northern Nigeria left at least 38 people dead as sect members armed with spears, knives, assault rifles and arrows ransacked a neighbourhood and set homes ablaze, police officials said.

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.

THE leader of a radical Islamic sect blamed for violent clashes between his followers and government forces has been shot dead in police custody.

Officials say the leader of the Islamist sect blamed for days of violence in northern Nigeria has been shot and killed while in police custody.

Nigerian troops shelled an Islamic sect’s compound and broke into their mosque, touching off a raging gunbattle that left scores dead.