BOKO HARAM ATTACKS IN NUMBERS - AS LETHAL AS EVER

For years, critics have accused the Nigerian military of not properly equipping its soldiers to deal with Boko Haram... READ MORE›

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NIGERIA'S PRESIDENT WARNED BY FIRST LADY AISHA BUHARI

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's wife has warned him that she may not back him at the next election unless he shakes up his government... READ MORE›

BOKO HARAM SURVIVORS SEXUALLY ABUSED AT 'SAFE' CAMPS

Four victims told Human Rights Watch they were first drugged before they were raped at the camps... READ MORE›

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Twenty-eight people were killed during a bombing attacks by Boko Haram militants during Christmas Day services at several churches in Nigeria... READ MORE›

CHIBOK GIRLS IN TEARFUL REUNION WITH FAMILIES

On Thursday, Lai Mohammed, Nigeria's information minister, denied reports that the state had swapped captured Boko Haram fighters for the release of the girls... READ MORE›

NIGERIA'S CHIBOK SCHOOLGIRLS FREED IN BOKO HARAM DEAL

Twenty-one of the schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria, have been freed, the president's spokesman has confirmed... READ MORE›

BOKO HARAM BURNS KIDS ALIVE IN NIGERIA, 86 DEAD

Boko Haram has been attacking soft targets, increasingly with suicide bombers, since the military last year drove them out of towns and villages in northeastern Nigeria... READ MORE›

BOKO HARAM RELEASES 82 KIDNAPPED GIRLS AFTER THREE YEARS

Nigeria Boko Haram releases 82 kidnapped girls after three years... READ MORE›

BOKO HARAM REFUGEES IN NIGERIA RAPED BY OFFICIALS

HRW Boko Haram refugees in Nigeria raped by officials... READ MORE›

TAX CHANGES COULD COST UK PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS 30% OF SALARY

Tax changes could cost UK public sector workers 30 percent of salary... READ MORE›

5 BOKO HARAM LEADERS WERE FREED IN EXCHANGE FOR 82 NIGERIAN GIRLS

USA TODAY Chibok schoolgirls recently freed from Boko Haram captivity are seen in Abuja, Nigeria, on May 7, 2017... READ MORE›

'100 VILLAGERS' KIDNAPPED IN NIGERIA

No group has said it carried out either attack but officials have blamed Nigerian-based Boko Haram militants... READ MORE›

FREED CHIBOK GIRLS REUNITED WITH THEIR FAMILIES FOR CHRISTMAS

More than 20 Nigerian Chibok girls who were released by the Islamist group Boko Haram in October have rejoined their families for Christmas... READ MORE›

BOKO HARAM ATTACK ON NIGERIA OIL TEAM KILLED OVER 50

There has been no serious suggestion that Boko Haram is motivated by a desire to control oil in northeast Nigeria... READ MORE›

RETHINK ON HOUSING BENEFIT CAP FOR ELDERLY AND VULNERABLE

More than 700,000 people in supported housing usually have the accommodation element of their costs met entirely through housing benefit... READ MORE›

Shekau's best-known crime is the kidnapping of more than 300 Nigerian girls... READ MORE›

BOKO HARAM ATTACKS BLAMED FOR DEATHS IN NIGERIA, CHAD

Nine civilians are killed in suicide attacks in Nigeria's Maiduguri, while eight troops die in raid in next-door Chad... READ MORE›

CHIBOK GIRLS: KIDNAPPED SCHOOLGIRL FOUND IN NIGERIA

One of the missing Chibok schoolgirls has been found in Nigeria, activists say, the first to be rescued since their capture two years ago... READ MORE›

NIGERIA BOKO HARAM: 75,000 CHILDREN 'RISK DYING OF HUNGER'

UN humanitarian co-ordinator Peter Lundberg said that overall 14 million people needed humanitarian assistance in a region that was the former stronghold of Boko Haram militants... READ MORE›

CHIBOK GIRLS: NIGERIA DENIES BOKO HARAM PRISONER SWAP

Nigeria's government has denied that it traded Boko Haram prisoners for 21 schoolgirls freed by the armed group... READ MORE›

GIRLS FREED FROM BOKO HARAM NOT ALLOWED TO SPEND CHRISTMAS AT HOME WITH THEIR FAMILIES

The government tried to appease them, saying it would fly their parents to Abuja, human rights lawyer Emmanuel Ogebe said... READ MORE›

ONE IN SIX JOBSEEKERS HAVE ALLOWANCE STOPPED BY DWP EACH YEAR

The figures contradict official claims that only a small minority of jobseekers have been affected by the government's increasingly severe welfare policies... READ MORE›

BOKO HARAM RAID IN NIGERIA KILLS AT LEAST 65

It is the normal Boko Haram style of attack, where they come and tear down villages, said Abba Aji Kalli, the task force member... READ MORE›

SUSPECTED BOKO HARAM BOMBERS KILL DOZENS IN NIGERIA

Three suicide bombers detonate explosives near northeast city of Maiduguri in attacks bearing hallmark of Boko Haram... READ MORE›

ETHIOPIA'S CRACKDOWN ON DISSENT TAKES RISING TOLL

Politicians held over protests as PM says anti-peace forces spreading false information about investment zone plan... READ MORE›

SUICIDE-BOMBER GIRLS KILL 58 IN NIGERIA REFUGEE CAMP

The group has also attacked camps established for people who have fled its violence... READ MORE›

CALL TO ARMS OVER BOKO HARAM ATTACKS

Schools reopening Boko Haram, which says it is fighting to create an Islamic state in Nigeria, has repeatedly targeted villages in Borno state in recent months... READ MORE›

FEMALE TEENAGE SUICIDE BOMBERS KILL 2, WOUND 16

Suicide bombings by teenage girls trained by Boko Haram have become a strategy of the armed group in the past couple of years... READ MORE›

BOKO HARAM ATTACK: CHILDREN BURNT ALIVE IN NIGERIA

At least 86 people, including children, killed in a series of attacks on a village in northern Nigeria... READ MORE›

FREED CHIBOK GIRLS: THEY SMILE THROUGH PAIN TO GIVE THANKS

According to the parent, one of the Chibok schoolgirls had refused to marry a Boko Haram fighters and was told she would be killed... READ MORE›

'THE CHIBOK GIRLS ARE NEVER BEING FREED,' SAYS BOKO HARAM LEADER

Abubakar shekau says more than 200 schoolgirls have been married off to boko fighters as the islamist group storms the hometown of nigeria's chief of defence... READ MORE›