A local village head said that the leader of the gunmen had demanded $119,000 from the villages as retribution after Nigerian ...

Gunmen kidnapped at least eight people in an attack on the Dan Honu community in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state, residents ...

Troops of Operation Safe Haven have arrested a man, Alhaji Yakubu Shanano, for allegedly killing a Mobile Police officer in Plateau State. It was learnt that the police officer attached to the ...

In recent years, kidnapping for ransom has become rife in north-western Nigeria. Armed gangs, referred to locally as bandits, ...

More than a dozen people are dead following a bus bombing in Syria's capital city of Damascus. Two explosive devices detonated on board a military bus during rush hour Wednesday, killing at least ...

Gunmen from criminal gangs have killed 13 Islamic seminary pupils during a ceremony celebrating the birth of Prophet Mohammed in northwest Nigeria's Katsina state, a local official said Tuesday.

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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A truck overloaded with food items and more than 200 people crashed in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state, killing 25 passengers and injuring dozens of others, authorities said ...

Katsina is one of several states in northwestern and central Nigeria terrorised by criminal gangs, locally known as bandits, who raid villages, kill and abduct residents as well as burn homes ...