Gunmen in northwest Nigeria have released 100 kidnapped victims, many of them nursing mothers and children, who had been held captive for about six weeks

Parents of the most recent group of students abducted in northern Nigeria are calling for international pressure on the government to help stop a series of kidnappings since December that have seized nearly 1,000 students

U.N. agencies say tens of thousands of Nigerians are fleeing in the wake of deadly attacks by armed groups and their continuing clashes with national armed forces in the troubled northeastern Borno state

Almost 2,000 inmates have escaped from a prison in southeastern Nigeria after heavily armed gunmen attacked the facility, authorities said.

Authorities in northwestern Nigeria say three teachers have been abducted in the latest attack on a school

Authorities say gunmen have attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped 39 students just weeks after a similar attack in the region blamed on bandits

The girls were taken from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria last week.

Hundreds of students who were abducted from an all-girls boarding school in northwestern Nigeria last week have been released, authorities said Tuesday.

A large group of gunmen raided a school in northern Nigeria early Friday.

Officials in Nigeria say gunmen who attacked a school in the country's Niger State have killed at least one student and abducted more than 40 people, including students and teachers

Nigeria's jihadist rebels kidnapped a group of schoolboys in recent days.

Nigerian police have announced that gunmen abducted more than 80 Islamic school students in northwestern Katsina state, but the pupils were quickly rescued by security forces after a fierce gun battle

Hundreds of schoolboys who were abducted by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria last week have been freed, officials said.

The more than 300 schoolboys who were kidnapped in Nigeria are welcomed home after a week-long ordeal.

Hundreds of students remain missing after gunmen attacked an all-boys boarding school in northwestern Nigeria, authorities said.

Anxiety is growing among the parents of hundreds of students who remain missing three days after gunmen attacked their school in Katsina State in northern Nigeria

For weeks, Nigeria has been gripped by widespread protests over a now-disbanded police unit known as SARS, which has been accused of human rights abuses.

Amnesty International says Nigeria’s security forces have fired on two large gatherings of peaceful protesters, killing 12 people who were calling for an end to police brutality

Widespread protests against Nigeria’s police have turned violent as demonstrators have been attacked by armed gangs in the streets of several cities, according to witnesses

An explosion hit Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos early Sunday, killing at least 15 people as rescue efforts continued to save people still trapped in collapsed buildings

A new study says weapons used in intercommunal violence that has killed thousands in northern Nigeria have been trafficked from Ivory Coast, Libya and Turkey

The victims had been watching a soccer match on television Sunday night.

Cameras captured children, dazed and covered in dust, being carried on the shoulders of rescuers to waiting ambulances as crowds cheered.

It was not immediately clear if the pipeline had been shut down.

The Christian vote is seen as key in the choice between two Muslim candidates.

The Nigerian military are fighting for control of the strategic town of Baga.

Suspected Boko Haram militants allegedly stormed the town of Dapchi in northeast Nigeria on the night of Feb. 19 and kidnapped 110 students.

#BringBackOurGirls group said the freeing of 82 girls is "heartwarming."