Boko Haram Takfiri militants have abducted dozens of people in northeastern Nigeria over the past two days, a local official says.

The sister of Nigerian Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke has been kidnapped in the latest case of abductions targeting political families in the oil-rich African nation.

Nigerian security sources say suspected members of the Boko Haram Takfiri militant group have raided two villages northeast of Nigeria despite the announcement of a ceasefire.

Protesters in Nigeria are planning to hold a rally to mark the six-month anniversary of the abduction of 219 school girls by Takfiri Boko Haram militants.

Takfiri Boko Haram militants have beheaded seven people in northeastern Nigeria, according to local residents and an official.

The Nigerian army has extended a travel ban on the country’s northeastern state of Borno over concerns of attacks by Boko Haram Takfiri militants.

One of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls apparently abandoned by her captors and found by villagers on Wednesday is four months pregnant, Daily Trust learnt yesterday.

Nearly 50 Nigerian parliament members have angrily left the legislature’s lower house after a motion to probe a huge cash arms deal worth $9.3 million with South Africa was blocked.

Nigerian security agencies are reviewing information that Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Boko Haram Islamist militant group, may have been killed in a battle with the military, a person familiar with the investigation was quoted as saying by Bloomberg at the weekend.

Amnesty International has accused Nigerian security forces of routinely torturing and abusing men, women, and children as young as 12 years of age.

Over 20 people have been killed and scores of others injured in an attack by Boko Haram Takfiri militants on a local market in Nigeria’s restive northeastern state of Borno.

Nigeria’s army forces are fighting Boko Haram Takfiri militants near Maiduguri, which is the capital of the northeastern state of Borno, to halt any attack on the city, local residents say.

People have escaped from a Nigerian town in the northeastern state of Adamawa as Boko Haram Takfiri militants are getting closer to it.

Thousands of people in Nigeria’s northeast Adamawa State have fled their towns and villages following the failure of the army to retake the area from Takfiri Boko Haram militants.

Hundreds of people in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri have been forced to escape as Boko Haram Takfiri militants get closer, residents say.

Boko Haram Takfiri militants have reportedly captured another town in northeastern Nigeria after heavy clashes with government troops.

Nigeria’s Boko Haram Takfiri group has killed scores of civilians in a town near the border with Cameroon, reports say.

Boko Haram atrocities in the northeastern parts of Nigeria have compelled people to leave their homes, fleeing to neighboring Cameroon, an official says.

Some 160 people have been placed under medical surveillance over the deadly Ebola virus in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt in Rivers State.

Nigeria has delayed the start of the country’s school year by one month over concerns on the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.