20120103
AFP
A purported spokesman for Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has issued an ultimatum to Christians in the country's north and threatened troops after the president declared a state of emergency in hard hit areas.

20120102
AP
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president on Saturday declared a state of emergency in parts of Africa's most populous nation, after a recent slew of deadly attacks blamed on a northern-based radical Muslim sect killed dozens of people, as separate communal clashes in the country's southeast left more than 40 dead.

20120101
Reuters
(Reuters) - Clashes between rival ethnic groups in eastern Nigeria's Ebonyi state on Saturday killed at least 50 people, the state government spokesman said, and police said mobile units had been sent to the state to quell the violence.

20120101
Reuters
(Reuters) - President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Saturday on parts of northern Nigeria plagued by a by a violent Islamist insurgency, and said he would shut any borders with other nations in those areas covered by the decree.

20120101
Reuters
(Reuters) - Nigerian security services are considering making contact with moderate members of shadowy Islamist sect Boko Haram via "back channels," even though explicit talks are officially ruled out, the national security adviser said on Friday.

20120101
Reuters
(Reuters) - The death toll from a bomb attack on a church just outside Nigeria's capital Abuja on Christmas Day has risen to 37, with 57 people wounded, a source at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Friday.

20120101
Reuters
(Reuters) - The death toll from a bomb attack on a church just outside Nigeria's capital Abuja on Christmas Day has risen to 37, with 57 people wounded, a source at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Friday.

20111231
AP
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen killed two civilians in a northeast Nigeria town plagued by attacks from a radical Muslim sect, an official said Friday, as a hospital official said one more person died from Christmas attacks blamed on the sect, raising the toll to 42.

20111231
AFP
The death toll from a wave of attacks blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram targeting churches and other locations on Christmas day in Nigeria has risen to at least 49, a church official said Friday.

20111228
Reuters
(Reuters) - Northern Nigerian Christians said on Tuesday they feared that a spate of Christmas Day bombings by Islamist militants that killed over two dozen people could lead to a religious war in Africa's most populous country.

20111227
Reuters
(Reuters) - The White House condemned the violent attacks in Nigeria on Sunday, which it said appeared to be acts of terrorism.

20111227
Reuters
(Reuters) - Following is a timeline of religious and ethnic violence in Nigeria over the last 10 years:

20111227
Reuters
(Reuters) - Nigeria's main opposition leader accused the government of incompetence on Monday after Islamist militants killed more than two dozen people in Christmas Day attacks on churches and other targets.

20111227
Reuters
(Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Monday condemned the Christmas Day bomb attacks by Islamist militants in Nigeria as an "absurd gesture" and prayed that "the hands of the violent be stopped."

20111227
AFP
Fear gripped Nigeria on Monday after a wave of Christmas bombings blamed on Islamists killed at least 40, including worshippers who were left begging for mercy as they exited a church.

20111226
AP
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A police commissioner says a suicide bomber has detonated his explosive-laden car in northeast Nigeria, causing an unknown number of injuries.

20111226
AFP
The Christmas morning bomb shook the Nigerian church as worshippers were filing out after mass. Some of those caught in the blast ran towards a priest with dying pleas for blessings.

20111226
AFP
The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, which claimed a wave of Christmas bombings that left at least 35 people dead, has carried out scores of attacks that have grown increasingly sophisticated.

20111226
AP
A look at recent major attacks in Nigeria attributed to the radical Muslim sect known locally as Boko Haram: