Boko Haram’s ideology is rooted in the idea of Islamization through Jihad. The group believes that the only legitimate form of government is one based on Shariʿa (Islamic law) and that Western-style ...

US President Donald Trump has threatened to freeze aid to Nigeria and take military action unless its government stops what ...

Across the world, some voices are deliberately painting Nigeria’s complex security challenges as a “religious war” between ...

Forged by colonial lines that ignored its people, Nigeria now strains under insurgency, corruption, and oil politics as the ...

The increasing use of drones by adversaries is highly dangerous. We must come together and act decisively to tackle this new ...

As Nigeria prepares to mark the fourth anniversary of the Chibok kidnapping, UNICEF reported on Friday that over 1,000 children have been abducted by jihadists since 2013. "Since 2013, more than 1,000 ...

So Trump fumes with a purpose. But he does have a stick. The Nigerian government and everyone with an iota of awareness knows he is the one international leader with the strategic naval, marine, air ...

"We are never coming back," one of the girls says in the video. — -- A video released in Nigeria this week by Boko Haram purportedly shows some of the schoolgirls who were abducted from the town ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian security forces have detained two journalists from a Hausa-language newspaper for days without charges after their publication printed stories on alleged abuses by the ...

Many people were injured yesterday in a clash between policemen and the Hausa community in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Heavily armed policemen and vigilance groups stormed Douglas Road to eject ...

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau vowed to disrupt Nigeria's general election in a new video released Tuesday, after two suicide attacks in the northeast blamed on the Islamists killed 38 people.

A former Minister of Sport in the cabinet of the late President Muhammadu Buhari, Barr. Solomon Dalung, has countered the ex-spokesman to the former President, Garba Shehu, saying the deceased ...