MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Assailants shot and stabbed to death 27 students in the second attack near colleges in Nigeria's troubled northeast in the last few days, school authorities said Tuesday, but police say the attacks killed 19 students and six others.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Assailants shot and stabbed to death at least 20 students in the second attack suspected to be carried out by Islamist extremists on colleges in Nigeria's troubled northeast in the last few days, authorities said Tuesday.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The leader of a radical Extremist sect has threatened the wives of Nigerian security agents and government officials in a new Internet video, while denying his group is in any peace talks to end the violence that has killed hundreds in the country's north.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The leader of a radical Extremist sect threatens the wives of Nigerian government officials in a new Internet video.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A government spokesman says 20 people in southeast Nigeria died when a broken gasoline pipeline caught fire, burning alive those gathering the fuel.

Nigeria's army has captured several security personnel, saying they were linked to the militant group Boko Haram.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell PLC says it has shut down a pipeline in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta after a fire and a suspected attempt to steal crude from one of its lines.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen detonated a bomb Sunday near an Islamic boarding school in northern Nigeria and later exchanged gunfire with security forces, causing unknown casualties in the region's latest round of violence, officials said.

Number of security personnel arrested for being active members of armed group accused of launching deadly attacks.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Nigeria landed safely Saturday after the pilot discovered a problem with the aircraft's landing gear, authorities said.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian aviation officials say a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Lagos will need to make an emergency landing because it has problems with its landing gear.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian aviation officials say a Qatar Airways flight will need to make an emergency landing because of a problem with its landing gear.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian officials say 908 Muslim women pilgrims traveling to Mecca face deportation from Saudi Arabia for traveling without male relatives.

The worst flooding to hit Nigeria in decades has claimed at least 104 lives and displaced more than 50,000 over the past two months in the center of the African country.

The detention of hundreds of female Nigerian pilgrims heading to Mecca at Saudi Arabia's busiest airport over a rule requiring them to travel with a husband or male relative is threatening to bring a diplomatic dispute between the two nations.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Nigerian city of Kaduna in the latest protest against a US-made movie and blasphemous cartoons in a French magazine that insult Islam's Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's military says it arrested more than 150 people and killed 36 others in a campaign across the nation's northeast to disrupt a radical sect.

SOKOTO, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian officials say 398 Muslim women pilgrims traveling to Mecca were temporarily held at a Saudi Arabian airport for traveling without male relatives.

BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church conducting Mass in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing two people and wounding another 45 in a region under assault by a radical sect, officials said.

Tens of thousands have stage a protest rally in Nigeria's second city Kano against an anti-Islam US-made film insulting Prophet Mohammad(PBUH).