The Nigerian army says it has killed 37 suspected members of extremist militant group Boko Haram in the northeast of the country.

At least 19 people have been killed in an attack by members of the militant group Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, according to local residents and survivors of the attack.

At least 19 people have been killed in an attack by members of the militant group Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, according to local residents and survivors of the attack.

Nigeria’s military says its troops have repelled attacks by members of the Boko Haram militant group and killed 40 militants in the northeastern state of Borno.

Rights group Amnesty International says nearly 1,000 people have died in Nigerian detention facilities.

Amnesty International has called for an immediate probe into the deaths of hundreds of prisoners in Nigerian detention facilities during a clampdown on anti-government fighters.

Hundreds of people are dying in military detention as Nigeria's security forces crack down on an Islamic uprising in the northeast, Amnesty International said Tuesday. Some people are shot outright, some starve and others suffocate to death, it said.

Forget it in Nigeria's northern Kano state, where Islamic police are deploying thousands of officers to arrest anyone sporting the "indecent dress" that's fashionable among young men driving motorized rickshaw taxis.

Seventeen people have been killed and ten others wounded in an accident in central Nigeria involving two buses, officials say.

The Nigerian military says 20 people have been killed in clashes between the army and members of the Boko Haram militant group in the northeast.

Amnesty International has censured attacks on schools in northern Nigeria, saying the assaults have forced thousands to quit their studies.

Nigerian authorities say the death toll from a plane crash outside Lagos international airport's domestic terminal has risen to 16.

At least eight people have been killed in a plane crash in the Nigerian city of Lagos, a rescue agency says.

Suspected members of the Boko Haram militant group have killed at least six people in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, a report says.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday promised a national dialogue to heal what he said was an ethnically and religiously divided nation, and urged his compatriots to unite against extremism to avoid the fate of Syria.

Nigeria’s former Vice President Atiku Abubakar says the government lacks the ‘vision’ to handle violence in the country, a day after militants killed over 50 students.

Suspected Boko Haram members have killed at least 50 people in a night raid on a college dormitory in Nigeria's northeastern Yobe state.

At least 42 people drowned and 100 went missing when a Nigerian ferry overloaded with passengers and goods broke up in stormy weather on the Niger River, emergency officials report.

At least 27 people have been killed in two separate attacks by members of the militant group Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, according to a government official.

Nigerian Islamist group Ansaru on Friday released a video of a French national kidnapped in December, the SITE jihadi tracking website said.