Armed men have attacked a Catholic school in a western region of Nigeria and abducted several schoolchildren and staff ...

Armed attackers abducted 13 women and an infant during an overnight raid in northeastern Nigeria, marking the latest in a series of mass kidnappings in the West African nation.

While no group has yet claimed responsibility, Nigeria has long battled kidnapping networks ranging from Boko Haram — ...

Armed men have kidnapped 26 people including a pastor and a bride in two separate raids in Nigeria, the latest in a string of ...

Nigeria beat USA in an Olympics exhibition game. It was one of the most lopsided losses in Olympic basketball history: Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony and Team USA thrashed the Nigerian men’s basketball ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The suspected gunmen who killed dozens of worshippers during a church service in southwestern Nigeria in June have been arrested, Nigeria’s top military officer said on Tuesday, ...

The Minister of Defence, Christopher Musa, on Wednesday, disclosed that the ministry under his leadership would withdraw soldiers from road checkpoints and redeploy them into the bush to confront ...

Nigeria has been rocked by two mass abductions from schools in the past week, with over 300 children taken by armed gangs in ...

Nigeria has granted asylum to Guinea-Bissau presidential candidate Fernando Dias just days after a coup prevented the results ...

Outside the federal parliament building in Lagos, troops with fixed bayonets warned a swarm of curious small boys to “Go ‘way, go ‘way, this is no place for children today.” In the lobby of the Ikoyi ...

Gunmen killed at least 16 people during an attack in northwest Nigeria, the government said Sunday. The assailants stormed the Zangon Kataf Local Government Area in Kaduna state and opened fire ...

The Nigeria men's basketball team made 20 3-pointers and stunned the United States 90-87 on Saturday in a pre-Olympic exhibition game in Las Vegas. “I thought that the Nigerian team played very ...