MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- A car bomb in a marketplace in Maiduguri, the northeast Nigerian city that is the birthplace of Boko Haram extremism, killed at least 56 people on Tuesday, the leader of a ...

At least 40 farmers were killed over the weekend in an attack by suspected Islamist militants, the governor of Nigeria's northeastern Borno state said on Monday. Governor Babanga Umara Zulum said ...

ABUJA, Oct 21 (Reuters) - A fuel tanker overturned and exploded in Nigeria's northern Niger state on Tuesday, killing at least 35 people, the Federal Road Safety Corps said. The vehicle skidded off ...

LIGARI, Nigeria (AP) — The villagers in northwestern Nigeria were settling in for church service when motorcycle-riding gunmen invaded, shooting at random and seizing at least 62 people, including the ...

The villagers in northwestern Nigeria were settling in for church service when motorcycle-riding gunmen invaded, shooting at random and seizing at least 62 people, including the pastor and several ...