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World leaders have come out strongly with rescue plans for over 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls.

World powers join search for abducted Nigerian schoolgirls

The US, Britain and France are sending specialist teams to search for the missing schoolgirls, while China has pledged to provide satellite info.

A teacher inspects a burnt school hostel at the Government Secondary School of Mamudo in north-east Nigeria where Boko Haram gunmen launched attacks. (Aminu Abubakar, AFP)

School massacre by insurgents haunts Nigerian village

Boko Haram insurgents have killed 41 pupils in an attack on a school in Nigeria’s Yobe state.

Gunmen attack Nigerian government buildings

Gunmen attack Nigerian government buildings

Islamist group Boko Haram have been accused of being suspects in the latest attacks on government buildings in the north of Nigeria.

Nigeria pressured to end Boko Haram violence

Boko Haram has killed hundreds in attacks that authorities have been unable to stop, prompting calls for talks to bring an end to the bloodshed.

Eight killed as ethnic violence

Eight killed as ethnic violence, fuel chaos haunt Nigeria

Eight people have been killed in Nigeria’s north and a mob has torched an Islamic school in the south amid a fuel strike and rising religious tension.

Nigerian Islamists and security forces clash again

Nigerian Islamists and security forces clash again

Hundreds of people have fled their homes in northeast Nigeria in fear, following deadly all-night gun battles between Islamists and security forces.

Boko Haram has backers in government

Nigeria attack the first during state of emergency

Gunmen have attacked a police station in Nigeria, killing a teenager and wounding an officer in the first such incident during its state of emergency.

US warns of possible Nigeria attacks

US warns of possible Nigeria attacks

The US has warned of fresh attacks in Nigeria after a wave of deadly bombings claimed by Islamists Boko Haram killed 150 people in the country.

Bomb attacks investigated after Jonathan inauguration

Nigerian cops are investigating a series of blasts that followed President Goodluck Jonathan’s inauguration, including bombs that ri

Nigerian president pledges to fight terrorism with Niger

Fresh bomb blasts as Nigeria votes in wake of riots

Fresh bomb blasts jolted Nigeria on Tuesday as the country went to the polls for state governors’ elections.

Deadly blasts rock Nigerian city

Bomb blasts have killed at least three people in north-east Nigeria, police said on Monday, in the latest unrest to hit Africa’s most populous nation.

Nigerian president pledges to fight terrorism with Niger

Nigeria leader says unrest recalls civil war build-up

President Goodluck Jonathan said on Thursday that deadly post-poll unrest recalled the build-up to the Nigerian civil war.

‘Bodies thrown into wells’ in Nigerian post-poll riots

Post-election riots in Nigeria left many dead, thousands displaced and hundreds wounded on Tuesday amid claims that bodies had been thrown into wells.

Nigerian president pledges to fight terrorism with Niger

Nigeria rocked by deadly post-election violence

An outbreak of post-poll rioting in northern Nigeria left many dead overnight, after President Goodluck Jonathan appealed for unity following his win.

Nigerian flood victims face food shortages, disease

Thousands of people from more than 30 flooded villages in northwestern Nigeria faced shortages of food and shelter on Wednesday.

Nigeria cops track hundreds of escaped prisoners

Police on Thursday hunted hundreds of inmates who escaped when suspected Islamists used machine guns and bombs in a Nigerian prison attack.

Religious clashes spread in Nigeria

Nigeria has sent more troops to the troubled city of Jos as clashes between Muslims and Christians, which have left about 300 people dead, spread.

Slain Nigerian sect members buried in mass graves

Nigerian authorities swept dozens of bodies into mass graves on Sunday in the grisly aftermath of last week’s Islamist uprising that killed hundreds.

Nigeria’s ‘Taliban’ plot comeback from hide-outs

Defeated in the field by a bloody military crackdown, Nigeria’s home-grown Islamic insurgency has dispersed amid the dusty back streets of the country’s teeming northern cities…

War on polio back on track in Nigeria

Health workers in the northern Nigerian state of Kano will on Saturday launch a drive to immunise more than four million infants against polio, despite ongoing opposition from…