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Nigeria's Borno state mobilises militia after 8 soldiers killed by militants
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNigeria's Borno state government has asked for 300 militia to help the military clear out Islamist insurgents after they killed at least eight soldiers during an attack in the northeastern town ...
Mass kidnappings show Nigerian officials have lost control, expert says
CBS News via Yahoo News· 3 months agoJohannesburg — "In the past 10 years we have seen more than 17 mass kidnappings. It's a bad record...
Gunmen kidnap 15 children in yet another school abduction in northern Nigeria
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 4 months agoArmed men broke into a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria early Saturday and seized 15 children...
Chibok girl rescued after 10 years in Boko Haram captivity
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe Nigerian army says it has rescued one of the missing Chibok schoolgirls abducted by militant...
Nigeria's army rescues a woman abducted from Chibok as a schoolgirl, and her 3 children
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 months agoNigerian soldiers rescued a woman who was abducted by extremists a decade ago while she was a...
Nigeria's Tinubu picks Muslim senator as presidential running mate
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNigeria's presidential frontrunner Bola Tinubu on Sunday picked as his running mate a sitting Muslim...
Islamist militants behead at least 10 farmers in Nigeria's Borno state -residents
Reuters via Yahoo News· 11 months agoIslamist militants have beheaded at least 10 farmers in Nigeria's northern state of Borno after attacking their farms, residents said on Monday. Last week, militants killed at least 25 people ...
Gunmen kidnap 12 in Nigeria's northern Zamfara and Borno states
Reuters via Yahoo News· 10 months agoMAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -At least 12 people have been kidnapped in two separate incidents in northern Nigeria, officials and witnesses said on Saturday. In the first incident, unidentified ...
Post misleadingly claims old video shows Nigeria’s VP comments on restructuring
AFP via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoA social media post claimed that a video showed Nigerian Vice President Kashim Shettima criticising...
Suspected militants kill four Nigerian police officers
Reuters via AOL· 5 months agoAt least four police officers were killed in Nigeria's northeast Borno state after a gun battle with suspected Islamist insurgents, a police spokesperson said on Saturday. Borno has been the ...