20120827 AFP A group of armed men killed a policeman on Sunday in the tense northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu, which has been hit by several attacks carried out by Extrimists in recent months, residents said.
20120827 AFP Nigerian military forces stormed the hideout of a militant gang operating on the waters of oil-producing Cross River State and rescued 27 abducted oil workers, a navy spokesman said Sunday.
20120826 Press TV At least 11 people have lost their lives and many others remain missing as a result of flooding in two areas of northern Nigeria, officials and local people said.
20120818 AFP Nigeria tightened security and the United States warned of the risk of attacks Friday ahead of this weekend's Eid festivities, which mark the end of the Muslim month of fasting.
20120815 AFP Hundreds of residents of a northeastern Nigerian city were fleeing Tuesday after arrests by troops and rumours of new attacks by militants, prompting authorities to plead for calm.
20120814 AFP A military raid, a shootout and an attack on police guarding a church in separate incidents in northern Nigeria left 24 dead, the latest violence in the restive region, officials said Monday.
20120813 Press TV Nigerian security forces have killed 20 suspected members of the Boko Haram militant group in a gun battle during a raid on one of the group’s hideouts in the restive northeastern city of Maiduguri.
20120813 AFP Gunmen attacked a mainly Christian village outside the flashpoint central Nigerian city of Jos, killing at least one person and injuring two others, a military spokesman said Sunday.
20120810 AFP US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged the president of Nigeria on Thursday to push ahead with reforms as it faces a deadly Islamist insurgency which has shaken Africa's largest oil producer.
20120806 AFP A suicide bomber in a car rammed into a military patrol on Sunday in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu, killing himself, at least six soldiers and a civilian, authorities said.
20120806 AFP Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday dismissed as "blackmail" a call on him by the suspected leader of Islamist group Boko Haram to resign and convert to Islam.
20120806 AP DAMATURU, Nigeria (AP) — Police in northeastern Nigeria say a suicide bomber has killed six soldiers and two civilians in a city wracked by violence.
20120805 AFP The suspected leader of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram criticised US President Barack Obama in an online video over Washington's decision to label him a "global terrorist".
20120805 AFP Gunmen attacked a barge belonging to an oil services company off the coast of Nigeria on Saturday, killing two Nigerian sailors and kidnapping four foreigners, navy officials said.
20120805 AFP Explosions rocked parts of the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri Saturday as troops engaged suspected Islamic radicals and raided homes, residents said.
20120804 AFP A top Muslim traditional leader in northeastern Nigeria escaped a suicide attack on Friday, when the bomber was thwarted by local people before blowing himself up, residents said.
20120731 Press TV At least eight people have been killed in separate incidents of violence, which included an attack on fasting Muslims, in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.
20120731 AFP Suicide bombings at two police stations Monday killed at least two people in the northwestern Nigerian city of Sokoto, the historic seat of Islam in the country, officials and residents said.
20120730 AFP A gun battle near a mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano and two other shootings left at least eight people dead on Sunday in the latest violence to hit the area, authorities said.
