BOKO HARAM RELEASES 82 KIDNAPPED GIRLS AFTER THREE YEARS

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

BLAST AT NIGERIAN SCHOOL ASSEMBLY

The militant group Boko Haram is believed to have carried out the attack, police said... READ MORE›

CHIBOK GIRLS IN HEALTH CHECKUPS BEFORE BUHARI MEETING

The Nigerian government said it was committed to securing the release of all hostages held by Boko Haram... READ MORE›

BOKO HARAM USE OF CHILD BOMBERS SOARS

The number of children, mainly girls, used by the Nigerian armed group Boko Haram as human bombs has quadrupled this year, according to UNICEF... READ MORE›

ARMY SEARCHING FOR CHIBOK GIRLS SEIZED BY BOKO HARAM

'Final defeat' Boko Haram's insurgency began in Maiduguri, though it has since spread beyond Nigeria's borders to Chad, Cameroon and Niger... 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›

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›

CRACKDOWN IN NIGER FAILS TO DETER MIGRANT SMUGGLERS

As many as 2,000 migrants leave Agadez weekly, the last big stop before reaching Libya, 620 miles away across the scorching sand... READ MORE›

TELEGRAPH INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI OF NIGERIA

How is it that Nigeria's military, which has a good record across west Africa, cannot claim back to 14 out of 774 local governorates from Boko Haram?... READ MORE›

THE GROWING HORROR IN A CITY WHERE 500 CHILDREN WERE KIDNAPPED BY BOKO HARAM

The growing horror in a city where 500 children were kidnapped by Boko Haram... READ MORE›

BOKO HARAM FALLS VICTIM TO A FOOD CRISIS IT CREATED

Such attacks are becoming increasingly common in the areas bordering Boko Haram's base in northeastern Nigeria... READ MORE›

CURFEW IN NIGERIAN CITY AFTER ATTACK

Boko Haram has repeatedly targeted Yobe and Borno and a third state, Adamawa, all in north-east Nigeria... READ MORE›

BOKO HARAM SAID TO USE MORE CHILDREN AS BOMBERS

Boko Haram used 44 children in suicide attacks last year, compared with only four in 2014, the report found... READ MORE›

ICELAND DEPORTS BOKO HARAM VICTIM FROM NIGERIA

World Refugee Day Meet the Nigerian who was kicked out of Iceland and now remains in limbo in Sweden over deportation... READ MORE›

TROOPS FROM CHAD AND NIGER TAKE ON BOKO HARAM

Facing direct engagement from government forces, Boko Haram has reverted to old tactics, bombing so-called soft targets in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri... READ MORE›

US PLANS TO PUT ADVISERS ON FRONT LINES OF NIGERIAS WAR ON BOKO HARAM

Drone photos recently helped the Nigerian Army avoid a major Boko Haram ambush, according to a senior American intelligence officer... READ MORE›

'HUGE RISE' IN CHILD SUICIDE BOMBERS

Girls, who are often drugged, were behind three-quarters of such attacks committed by the militant Islamist group in Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad... READ MORE›

REPORTS: SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS DOZENS AT SCHOOL IN NIGERIA

The incident occurred at the Government Technical Science College in the city of Potiskum, the capital of Yobe state... READ MORE›

BOMB BLAST IN NIGERIAN SCHOOL ASSEMBLY KILLS 48 CHILDREN

In February, gunmen killed at least 40 students after throwing explosives into the dormitory of a government boarding school in Buni Yadi, also in Yobe state... READ MORE›

NIGERIA PRISONER SWAP SECURES RELEASE OF 82 CHIBOK GIRLS

Boko Haram's Shekau has previously said the girls would be released if militant fighters held in Nigerian government custody were freed... READ MORE›

BOKO HARAM KILLS 18 WOMEN AT A FUNERAL IN NIGERIA

Boko Haram fighters have killed at least 18 people at a funeral in northeast Nigeria, a witness and a police official have said... READ MORE›

'NEARLY 200 REFUGEES DIE OF STARVATION' IN NIGERIA CAMP

Her team reached Bama on Tuesday following a military convoy from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital that is the headquarters of Nigeria's military campaign... READ MORE›

BOKO HARAM MURDER 24 AT VILLAGE FUNERAL - MOSTLY WOMEN

Boko Haram militants have killed 24 people, mostly women, as they mourned at a funeral in a village in northern Nigeria, looting and burning their houses down... READ MORE›

BOKO HARAM'S USE OF CHILD 'SUICIDE' BOMBERS SKYROCKETED LAST YEAR

The number of children forced by Boko Haram militants to blow themselves up as suicide bombers increased more than tenfold last year... READ MORE›

NIGER FEELS RIPPLE EFFECT OF BOKO HARAM AS FEARS OF FOOD SHORTAGE SPREAD

We have underestimated the scale and complexity of the crisis in northern Nigeria, said Peter Lundberg, the United Nations' deputy humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria... READ MORE›

92 BOKO HARAM FIGHTERS KILLED IN NIGERIA

In January, at least 86 people were killed in a series of attacks on a village in northeastern Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram fighters... READ MORE›

HOW CAN NIGERIANS BE PROTECTED FROM THE ANNUAL FLOODS?

Can Nigerian lives and property be saved from the aftermath of torrential rain and flooding each year?... READ MORE›

83 NIGERIAN SOLDIERS MISSING AFTER BOKO HARAM ATTACK

Senior military officers say 83 soldiers are missing after Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked a remote base in northeastern Nigeria... READ MORE›

PENTAGON SETTING UP DRONE BASE IN AFRICA TO TRACK BOKO HARAM FIGHTERS

Nigeria is in the process of establishing a multinational force to fight Boko Haram with soldiers from Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Benin... READ MORE›