Thousands of Nigerians living in the northeastern parts of the country have escaped violence by Boko Haram Takfiri militants.

Thirty-five Nigerian police officers sent to a training academy in the country’s northeast have gone missing after an attack by Takfiri Boko Haram militants on the facility.

Boko Haram Takfiri militants have seized control of a riot police training academy outside a village in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State, a media report says.

The Nigerian president has declared a state of emergency in the country over the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.

Amnesty International has accused the Nigerian military and militia groups of committing “extensive human rights violations” in the country’s battle against the members of the Boko Haram terrorist group.

Takfiri Boko Haram militants have killed more than 100 people in a raid on a town in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State, reports say.

The head of Nigeria’s Takfiri group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for a deadly bomb attack in the capital Abuja and an assault hours later in Lagos.

Nigerian security sources say they have defused an explosives-laden car abandoned near a school in the volatile northeastern city of Gombe.

Nigerian security sources say over 60 girls and women kidnapped last month by the Boko Haram Takfiri militants have escaped from their captors.

The Nigerian army says it has killed more than 50 members of the Boko Haram Takfiri group after it repulsed an assault on a military base in a northeastern town.

Desperate Nigerian villagers from the northeast have pleaded for UN protection against the Boko Haram Takfiri militants.

Nigeria’s military says it has conducted a raid against an “intelligence unit” of the Takfiri group Boko Haram and has arrested its leader.

Nigerian activists have pledged to pile more pressure on the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to secure the release of nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram Takfiris in April.

A car bomb explosion in a busy street in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano has killed at least four people.

The Boko Haram terrorist group that has abducted nearly 300 Nigerian girls is reportedly sponsored by the same international political mafia that orchestrates the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the Arab world, a political analyst says.

Iran has condemned the recent mass abduction of female students in Nigeria as part of an Islamophobia campaign and called for immediate efforts to release the girls.

The UN has expressed deep concern over Boko Haram’s threat of selling into slavery hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by the group's fighters in Nigeria.

More than 40 people have been killed in clashes between government forces and militants in northern Nigeria, as the search for nearly 200 abducted schoolgirls continues.

At least 35 people have been killed in a blast at a bus station near the Nigerian capital, Abuja.

At least 19 people, including six college teachers, have been killed in three separate attacks in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno.