Nigerian government troops have carried out a raid on the private residence of a top Shia cleric in the country’s northern regions.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has suggested that military operations against the Takfiri Boko Haram militants could be extended as the Abuja government is likely to miss a deadline to end the militancy.

A Nigerian woman has been killed in violence during polls to elect a new governor in the southern state of Bayelsa.

Police in Nigeria have detained a dozen suspects linked to the discovery of "sleeper cells" operated by the Boko Haram Takfiri militant group in and around the capital, Abuja.

More than 30 people have lost their lives and 80 more sustained injuries in an explosion that ripped through a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola.

At least seven people have been killed in clashes between the supporters of rival political parties in Nigeria’s eastern Taraba State after an election dispute.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, escaped death by whiskers yesterday, while travelling on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

At least 11 people have been killed in two bomb explosions in a northeastern Nigerian village.

At least 42 people have lost their lives when two bomb explosions ripped through a mosque in Nigeria’s restive northeastern state of Borno.

Triple bombings, suspected to be carried out by Boko Haram Takfiri militants, have killed at least seven people in northeast Nigeria, officials say.

A Nigerian Hajj authority says the number of the country's pilgrims killed in the deadly crush during Hajj rituals in Mina, Saudi Arabia, has reached 145.

Three explosions have ripped through the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri killing at least 8 people.

Takfiri Boko Haram militants have shot dead nearly 80 people after they stormed three villages in Nigeria’s crisis-stricken northeastern state of Borno, a vigilante and residents say.

Nigerian army troops have recaptured a key town from the Boko Haram Takfiri militant group in the country’s crisis-stricken northeastern state of Borno, military sources say.

Takfiri Boko Haram militants have killed 56 villagers in a remote area in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno, a local official says.

A bomb attack has claimed the lives of at least six people and injured more than 40 others in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Yobe.

Up to 150 people have been shot dead or drowned in a river in northeastern Nigeria while fleeing violence by the Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists.

Nigeria’s army says it has rescued 178 people, including over 100 children, held hostage by Takfiri Boko Haram terrorists in the restive northeastern state of Borno.

Militants from the Boko Haram terrorist group have killed at least 13 people from a village in northeastern Nigeria.

The Nigerian military has reopened a major road in the country’s northeast after it was closed more than one year ago for the clearance of mines planted by Boko Haram militants.