At least 24 people have been killed in ethnic violence in a rural town in Nigeria, according to a health official.

At least four people have died in riots that erupted in central Nigeria after a Muslim was killed at an illegal checkpoint, a local official said.

The alleged mastermind of a radical Islamist sect’s Christmas Day church bombing fled across Nigeria after escaping police custody and hid for about a month before finally being apprehended, authorities said.

Armed men dressed in military uniforms massacred more than 200 people in central Nigeria after rebels killed 19 soldiers in the region, according to reports today.