Nigeria

Suspected insurgents in Nigeria killed 14 people in a rampage that began in a nightclub and proceeded into the surrounding neighborhood in northeastern Yobe state, Reuters reported today. The incident, which started around 1 a.m. local time and left the…

Armed groups have killed at least 160 people in central Nigeria in a series of attacks on villages, local government officials said on Monday. The toll marked a sharp rise from the initial figure reported by the army on Sunday evening of…

Religious, social figures and Shia activists in Nigeria have called on the new president to bring to justice the perpetrators of the atrocities and bloody crimes against Shia in the country, most notably the massacre of Zaria, which took place…

The Nigerian Air Force launched deadly strikes in the northeastern state of Borno that killed at least 100 suspected terrorists on Friday. Nigerian Air Force spokesperson Edward Gabkwet said there were indications that Abu Asad, a key leader of Boko…

At least seven worshippers were killed in an attack on a mosque by a gang of gunmen in Nigeria’s northwest Kaduna state, police said on Saturday. The attack, in the remote Saya village of the Ikara local government area of…

Local officials confirmed that a mosque in the Nigerian city of Zaria had collapsed on Friday during prayers, killing at least seven people. They added that hundreds of worshippers were in the building at the time of prayer. An investigation…