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Suspected Boko Haram kills at least 40 in Nigeria's Yobe state, police say
Reuters via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAt least 40 people were killed in Nigeria's Yobe state between Monday and Tuesday after suspected Boko Haram militants shot at villagers and set off a land mine, in the first major attack on ...
Extremists kill 37 villagers in latest attack in Nigeria's hard-hit northeast
Associated Press via AOL· 7 months agoExtremists in northeastern Nigeria killed at least 37 villagers in two different attacks, residents said Wednesday, highlighting once again how deadly islamic extremist rebels have remained ...
Suspected insurgents kill 14 in northeast Nigeria, residents say
Reuters via AOL· 4 months agoSuspected insurgents in Nigeria killed 14 people in a rampage that began in a nightclub and proceeded into the surrounding neighborhood in northeastern Yobe state, residents said on Friday, ...
'God's plan': Family flees amid catastrophic Nigeria floods
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen the floodwaters reached Aisha Ali’s hut made of woven straw mats and raffia palms, she packed...
Hungry and malnourished, northeast Nigeria endures humanitarian crisis
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoShe is the latest arrival at a treatment centre for severely malnourished children in Nigeria's...
A decade since the Chibok abduction, more than 1,400 Nigerian students have been kidnapped
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 months agoWhat seemed like an aberration a decade ago when militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria's...
An atheist in northern Nigeria was arrested. Then the attacks against the others worsened
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoWhen the megaphone called out for the daily Islamic prayers, the nonbeliever grabbed his prayer...
Floods kill over 300 in Nigeria this year, and could worsen -emergency agency
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFloods in Nigeria have killed at least 300 people this year and the situation could worsen due to heavy rainfall and the effects of excess water from a dam in Cameroon that will affect 14 Nigerian ...
Suspected Boko Haram kills 15 farmers in northeast Nigeria
Reuters via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAt least 15 rice farmers were killed and several others feared abducted in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state after suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked three villages, a local farmers' ...