First-known attack in Nigeria by the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin armed group active in Mali and Burkina Faso.

What began as a bid to correct democratic failures instead ushered in decades of authoritarianism, bloodshed, and ethnic rivalry. Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi (1924 - 1966) during a press ...

One day after President Donald Trump denounced the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria, he raised the possibility of military ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is increasingly alarmed at the unfolding situation in northeast Nigeria, where the advancing military campaign by Government forces, in cooperation with the ...

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has appointed new service chiefs in a sweeping overhaul of the country's military leadership, ...

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the U.S. will do everything it can to help Nigeria find nearly 300 teenage girls missing since they were kidnapped from school three weeks ago by an Islamist ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria's former president and one-time military ruler, Muhammadu Buhari, has died at a hospital in London at the age of 82, a spokesperson confirmed Sunday. Buhari, a towering and ...

Al-Qaeda–linked militant group, a Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed a soldier in central Nigeria this week, its first known attack in ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 19 August 2016 UNHCR, the UN Refugee ...