Nigeria

Attackers killed nine Nigerian construction workers early Monday in the restive northeastern city of Maiduguri, the base of the Islamist…

LAGOS — Nigeria began three days of mourning on Monday after a plane carrying 153 people plunged into a residential…

KANO, Nigeria — Several explosions struck a university campus Sunday morning in northern Nigeria near a theater hall where Catholics…

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria is opening a secret detention center to hold and interrogate suspected high-level members of a radical…

The World Bank on Monday chose Korean-born American health expert Jim Yong Kim as its new president, maintaining Washington's grip…

KADUNA, Nigeria  - A car bomb killed at least 16 people and wounded dozens more in the northern Nigerian town…

Global rights watchdog Human Rights Watch Wednesday condemned attacks by suspected members of Boko Haram on schools in and around…

A suicide bomber drove an explosives packed car into a church inNigeria's volatile central city of Jos on Sunday and killed three people, 

A man claiming to be a spokesman for Nigeria's extremist sect Boko Haram said Tuesday that the group was behind…

Islamist sect Boko Haram, whose attacks have killed hundreds in Nigeria, will continue its campaign until the country is ruled…