The leader of Boko Haram — the Nigerian terror group that has killed tens of thousands of people and kidnapped hundreds of schoolchildren — has killed himself ...

On June 15, Boko Haram released a video featuring English, French (Cameroonian), Fulani, and Hausa-speaking fighters “greeting” fellow fighters in Zamfara and Niger states. Three weeks later, on July ...

Chairman of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum in Lagos, Yerima Shetima, yesterday said since the discovery of hideouts of suspected terrorists in the state, Hausa youths no longer enjoy freedom. Shetima ...

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Boko Haram, a militant Islamic group working out of Nigeria, whose purpose is to institute Sharia, or Islamic law. Facts In the local Hausa dialect, Boko Haram ...

Hausa and Fulani communities in Bayelsa State have warned the Boko Haram sect against launching an attack on the state. The communities, who gave the warning through the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) ...

On November 25, Boko Haram, an Islamist militant group from northern Nigeria, attacked a church in Jaji, Kaduna State, using two suicide bombers during the church’s weekly religious service. The first ...

There are criminal gangs in the north-west, an Islamist insurgency in the north-east, clashes over land in central regions and separatist unrest in the south-east - leaving the 400,000-strong army and ...

As Nigeria prepares to mark the fourth anniversary of the Chibok kidnapping, UNICEF reported on Friday that over 1,000 children have been abducted by jihadists since 2013. "Since 2013, more than 1,000 ...

Many people were injured yesterday in a clash between policemen and the Hausa community in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Heavily armed policemen and vigilance groups stormed Douglas Road to eject ...

Messages from trusted religious authorities can persuade people to reintegrate former Boko Haram fighters into the Nigerian communities terrorized by the violent extremist group for more than a decade ...

Last September, I spent two weeks in Chad. Everyone I spoke to — government officials, average citizens, religious leaders, former fighters, activists, and aid workers — kept bringing up a topic they ...

April 19, 2013 – Boko Haram battles with multinational security forces from Niger, Nigeria and Chad in the city of Baga in Borno State, leaving nearly 200 people dead, including many civilians. Shekau ...