20120312
AFP
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Catholic church in central Nigeria on Sunday, killing seven people and sparking panic in which security forces shot three others dead.

20120312
AFP
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Catholic church in the Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday, killing at least three people attending mass, the emergency services said.

20120312
AFP
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Catholic church in the Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday, seriously injuring three people attending mass, the emergency services said.

20120312
AFP
Explosions erupted on Sunday around a church in the central Nigerian city of Jos, relief officials and residents said.

20120311
Reuters
KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - A gun battle broke out on Friday between suspected Islamist militants and police in Nigeria's biggest northern city of Kano, after gunmen opened fire on a police station, a police spokesman said.

20120311
Reuters
MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - A purported spokesman for Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram on Friday denied any part in the kidnapping of a Briton and an Italian who were killed by their captors in northwest Nigeria during a rescue operation.

20120311
Reuters
ROME (Reuters) - A diplomatic row broke out between London and Rome on Friday over Britain's failure to inform the Italian government before launching a botched hostage rescue mission in Nigeria.

20120311
Reuters
SOKOTO, Nigeria (Reuters) - The wife of one of the guards who held a Briton and an Italian hostage in northern Nigeria said on Saturday the two men were taken into a toilet and shot dead during a failed attempt to rescue them by British and Nigerian forces.

20120311
Reuters
SOKOTO, Nigeria (Reuters) - The wife of one of the guards who held a Briton and an Italian hostage in northern Nigeria said on Saturday the two men were taken into a bathroom and shot dead during a failed attempt to rescue them by British and Nigerian forces.

20120310
AFP
Around a hundred troops, a tank and two helicopters were deployed in a failed hostage rescue bid in northwestern Nigeria in which an Italian and Briton hostages were killed, witnesses said.

20120310
AP
SOKOTO, Nigeria (AP) — An attempted rescue by British special forces and Nigerian troops of a British and an Italian hostage ended with a blood-splattered house and a dispute between two European nations.

20120306
AFP
Troops in Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri on Monday shot dead three suspected members of the Islamist Boko Haram sect as they allegedly tried to burn down a school, the army said.

20120306
AFP
A top US official on Monday pledged to help Nigeria address security threats as Africa's most populous nation and largest oil producer deals with scores of attacks blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram.

20120305
AFP
An irate mob lit bonfires and marched through the Nigerian city of Kano to protest the alleged shooting to death of a motorcyclist on Sunday by troops deployed to counter Boko Haram Islamists.

20120305
AFP
The Nigerian armed militant group MEND which last week claimed the killing of four marine policemen in the the oil-rich Niger Delta said Sunday it was at "war" with the nation's security agents.

20120303
AFP
Nigeria on Friday buried former secessionist leader Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, whose declaration of Biafran independence in the 1960s ignited a civil war that left more than a million people dead.

20120303
AFP
Gunmen shot dead a soldier Friday in the northern Nigerian city of Kano where members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect recently killed 185 people in coordinated bomb and gun attacks, residents said.

20120303
AFP
Four Nigeria soldiers are missing and presumed dead after an attack by gunmen in the southern oil-rich Niger Delta creeks, the military and a state government said Friday.

20120303
AFP
Three sailors abducted when their cargo ship was attacked by pirates off the Nigerian coast this week are "in good health", an armed militant group said Friday.

20120229
AFP
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Smoke hovered over uniformed students frolicking in a playground Tuesday, hours after assailants set their school ablaze and destroyed another local school, showing how commonplace violence has become in Nigeria's northeast.