KEY POINTS A faction of Boko Haram agreed to release 50 women and children...

AFAN President Mohammed Magaji has urged the Federal Government to set up a national committee to prevent farmer-herder clashes before they erupt across rural Nigeria.

KEY POINTS Boko Haram faction threatens to execute up to 20 of 416 captives...

US Senator Ted Cruz says Nigerian officials are complicit in killing Christians, while former minister Lai Mohammed insists Boko Haram has killed more Muslims.

KEY POINTS Borno youth group warns of Boko Haram’s 72-hour ultimatum over 416 abductees ...

Boko Haram has set a 72-hour deadline for the government to pay N5bn for 416 women and children abducted from Ngoshe in Borno State.

Amnesty International says at least 1,100 people were kidnapped across northern Nigeria in just three months, urging President Tinubu to urgently address the abduction crisis.

The African Democratic Congress has denounced the federal government's reintegration of 744 repentant terrorists as a dangerous failure of judgment that prioritizes rehabilitation over accountability.

A Jilli community resident says he lost six brothers in the military airstrike and that over 100 bodies recovered from the market have already been buried.

Nigeria's reintegration of 744 former Boko Haram fighters has triggered a furious backlash from victims, retired officers and lawyers who say justice has been abandoned.

Brig. Gen. Oseni Braimah was speaking with his twin brother in the United Kingdom when Boko Haram struck the Benishiekh base, cutting the call dead.

Security agencies reinforced airports and correctional facilities on Thursday after the Washington Post revealed a Nigerian Customs Service memo detailing an ISWAP airport threat against the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport and Kuje Custodial Centre in Abuja.