Police in Nigeria say they have freed at least 77 people who were kept in a church basement by pastors who preached to them about Christian believers ascending to heaven with the second coming of Jesus Christ

More than 80 people are feared to have died in Sunday's attack on a church in southwestern Nigeria, sources told ABC News on Wednesday.

Some of the gunmen who attacked a church full of worshippers in southwestern Nigeria on Sunday were "disguised as congregants," police said.

Dozens of people, including women and children, were killed in southwestern Nigeria on Sunday when gunmen attacked a church, officials said.

Dozens of people are feared to have died after gunmen attacked a church in Nigeria, a U.S. official briefed on the massacre told ABC News.

Gunmen opened fire on worshippers and detonated explosives, an official says.

Nigeria state lawmaker says dozens feared dead after gunmen attack church with explosives in southwest of country

A three-story residential building has collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, killing at least five people with many feared trapped

Nigerian lawmakers have passed legislation to bar the payment of kidnap ransoms at a time when the West African nation is struggling to stem the rise of armed violence and kidnaps for ransom in its troubled northwest and central regions

A Nigerian oil official says as many as 100 people may have died in an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in southeastern Nigeria

Nigerian police and witnesses say an attack by suspected Islamic extremist rebels has killed nine people in northeast Nigeria, one of several deadly attacks this week in the troubled region

Six people died in northeast Nigeria after an explosion rocked a marketplace, local authorities told The Associated Press on Wednesday, with many injured including 19 who are “seriously wounded.”

Members of the Boko Haram jihadi group attacked a village in Borno state.

Survivors of a deadly attack in Nigeria’s northwest say the death toll has reached 200

Nigerian police say that at least 21 schoolchildren have been rescued hours after they were abducted by armed groups in the West African country’s troubled northwestern region

Nigerian security forces are searching for armed gangs who killed 47 people in attacks in recent days in rural areas of the country’s northwest, the latest killings in the troubled region

The number of bodies recovered from a collapsed high-rise apartment building in Nigeria’s most populous city has risen to 36, an emergency official told The Associated Press

It's the third jailbreak in Africa’s most populous country this year.

Authorities in northern Nigeria say nearly 70 students kidnapped from their school two weeks ago are now freed

Authorities in northern Nigeria say three separate groups of kidnapped students have been freed within a 24-hour period

Australia’s most populous state is reporting a new daily high of 356 coronavirus infections

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."