The Nigerian military has mistakenly killed hundreds of civilians in airstrikes targeting armed groups in the nation’s ...

The police said the workers were installing a surveillance mast when the terrorists attacked them on Friday evening in Gumki, a village in Arewa Local Government Area ...

Last year, about 85 civilians mistaken for bandits were killed while attending a Muslim religious gathering at a village in ...

Boko Haram terrorists attacked a village, killing two brothers and razing a church. The incident coincided with another ...

A new armed group called Lakurawa is attacking villages in remote corners of northwestern Nigeria and across the ... whose members are spread across West Africa. The Nigerian military said it ...

Human rights groups in Nigeria are condemning a pattern of civilian deaths from airstrikes in the northeast, and are calling for an impartial investigation of the military's operations. This follows ...

At least 40 farmers were killed in an attack by Muslim militants in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, a government official said Monday.

Security experts say the Islamic State (IS) jihadist militant group is capitalising on issues such as severe governance ...

NIGERIA: At least 16 civilians in Nigeria’s north-western Zamfara State have been killed in a military air strike, apparently ...

Weak property rights and political tensions can make the problem worse.