Armed men have attacked a police station in northeast Nigeria, killing three officers and stealing some weapons belonging to law enforcement.

Heavily armed cattle robbers have killed at least seven Kenyan police officers and injured 21 others as the police pursued the rustlers in the north of the country.

The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has warned governors against excessive borrowing to ensure the economic growth of the country.

Three policemen have been shot dead in an attack on a divisional police station in Bini-Yadi, a community in Guiba local government area of Yobe State in the northeastern part of Nigeria, local military authorities said on Friday.

At least five people were killed in an attack by marauders on a village in Nigeria's north central Plateau State, a statement by the Special Task Force (STF) said Friday.

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday called on world leaders to put up a stronger fight against terrorism, saying it should no longer be treated as a local issue, but a common challenge across the globe.

The Nigerian security troops on Tuesday said they killed four Boko Haram members in their hideout after a raid in a small community in the nation's northeast state of Yobe.

The Nigerian government Monday urged the House of Representatives to approve a 9-billion-U.S.-dollar external borrowing plan from 2012 to 2015.

Nigeria's secret police in central north Nasarawa state on Monday arrested five suspected members of an arm-running syndicate.

As many as 25 suspected gunmen were arrested in connection with the killing of a policeman on duty in Kano State in northwestern Nigeria, local police said Monday.

Nigeria's parliament Saturday announced that it would support any step to bring peace to the West African country, especially the proposed peace talks between the Boko Haram sect and the government.

Five hostages kidnapped in Niger last month were freed Saturday and the other captive was killed, according to an NGO of the land-locked African country.

Nigeria's Foreign Affairs Ministry on Saturday faulted the latest report by Amnesty International on the West African country's security, dismissing its probe as wrong.

Soldiers in northeast Nigeria shot dead more than 40 people, likely civilians, during an operation in a city long under attack by a radical Islamist sect, a hospital official said Friday.

Four persons were killed and seven others sustained severe gunshot injuries late Sunday when unidentified gunmen stormed a local bar and shot at fun-seekers in Gashish district of Barkin Ladi local government area in north- central Nigeria's Plateau State, police authorities aid Monday.

Ten people drowned on Sunday when a passenger speed boat capsized at Imude, a riverine community in Otto-Awori local council development area of Lagos in southwestern Nigeria, General Manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) Femi-Oke Osanyintolu said on Monday.

http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Blotte ... losion_nt_121025_mw.jpgAt least four persons have been killed and several others were injured in an early morning explosion which rocked St. Rita Catholic Church in Malaila area of northern Nigeria's Kaduna State during Sunday mass, a top Red cross official told Xinhua on Sunday.

Governor of northeast Nigeria's Taraba State Danbaba Suntai who survived an air crash involving his private aircraft Cessna 208 with registration number 5N-BMJ in Yola, capital of Adamawa State, has been rushed to Germany in an air ambulance for medical attention on Saturday, a statement reaching Xinhua said.

Casualties are feared in an early morning explosion which rocked a church during Sunday mass in northern Nigeria's Kaduna State, top officials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) have said.

The police in northeast Nigeria's Bauchi State on Sunday said two persons were injured late on Saturday night following an explosion within the state metropolis.