Nigerian officials say at least 87 people have been killed in an attack by the Boko Haram militant group in the northeastern state of Borno.

At least 40 Nigerian soldiers have been killed and 65 others gone missing after clashes with suspected members of the Boko Haram militant group, a report says.

Four members of Nigeria’s Boko Haram militant group have been killed after being arrested by vigilantes of the Civilian Joint Task Force, a military official says.

Four members of Nigeria’s Boko Haram militant group have been killed after being arrested by vigilantes of the Civilian Joint Task Force, a military official says.

Nigeria’s Bodo community and the multinational oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell have failed to reach a settlement over a compensation offer for damage from two major oil spills in 2008.

Ten Boko Haram militants have been killed in an operation carried out by the Nigerian army in the northeastern restive state of Borno.

Two Boko Haram commanders were shot dead in an operation launched by a combined special security force in Mubi area of northeast Nigeria's Adamawa State, the military said on Tuesday.

Death toll of the rebel attacks in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno hit 50 on Tuesday, in a fresh account of the incident by the traditional chief of the affected Konduga Village.

Nigeria's military said Friday it had killed 50 Boko Haram Islamists in an operation in the northeast launched in response to an insurgent attack, in the latest violence to hit the region.

Suspected Islamic sect members ambushed and killed at least 24 members of a youth vigilante group who were on a mission to find and fight the sect in northeast Nigeria, a security official said Saturday.

Nigerian authorities have rescued 25 children from an illegal orphanage where they were being kept inside a single room and being offered for sale, officials said Friday, the country's latest case of child trafficking.

Nigerian security forces said Monday they had arrested 28 suspected oil pipeline vandals in southwest Ogun State.

A British national has been kidnapped earlier this week after unknown gunmen ambushed his car near an airport in Nigeria's economic and commercial capital Lagos, local police said late Friday.

All secondary schools in Yobe State, northern Nigeria, have remained closed following Saturday's massacre that left at least 20 students dead.

Shell Nigeria says an explosion and fire caused by oil theft have forced it to shut down its Trans Niger Pipeline that carries 150,000 barrels of crude a day.

At least seven students and two teachers were killed in an attack on a public school by Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria's northeastern city of Damaturu, the military said on Monday.

The Nigerian soccer team arrived in Brazil on Sunday, three days behind schedule and a day before it is to open against Tahiti in the Confederation Cup.

Agents of foreign institutions of higher learning in Kenya are having brisk business as the number of Kenyans seeking to study abroad rises.

Nigerian troops in northeast Adamawa State on Saturday announced a review of the 7 p.m. to 6 a. m. curfew imposed on the state following last month declaration of the State of Emergency. The Operational Commander of the force, Brig Gen. Fatai Alli said in a statement that the curfew is now 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.

The Nigerian House of Representatives will on Thursday begin to visit a number of Nigerian missions abroad as part of its oversight functions, according to the lower chamber of the West African country.