At least 28 of the nearly 300 schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen have escaped, Nigeria's Kaduna state governor has told BBC News.
Nigeria's army is leading a desperate search for the children taken in the northern town of Kuriga on Thursday.
Troops (...)
Suspected bandits attacked a passenger train headed to a northern Nigerian city from the capital Abuja Monday evening after they trapped the train, officials said.
The bandits are reported to have abducted an unknown number of passengers from the (...)
A bomb on the outskirts of Nigeria's Zaria city in the northern state of Kaduna killed at least 20 people on Monday morning, Reuters cited the state governor, Nasir el-Rufai, as saying.
Zinari Shehu, a local radio journalist who was at the scene, (...)
An explosion on a busy commercial road in the north Nigerian city of Kaduna killed several people on Wednesday, witnesses said.
The blast scattered debris and dead bodies on the Alkali Road in the city, witness Muhammad Danfulani told Reuters by (...)
Authorities say at least five police officers have been killed in separate attacks in northern Nigeria.
Gunmen raided Birnin-Gwari in Kaduna state late Wednesday, attacking a police station and using explosives to enter two banks in the area, AP (...)
Awwal 13, 1432, April 17, 2011, SPA -- A police spokesman in northern Nigeria says eight people were wounded when a bomb detonated at a hotel hours after the presidential election.
The blast went off in Kaduna, the vice president's hometown. Kaduna (...)
