Disowned by her parents after running away from the 55-year-old man they forced her to marry in the northeast Nigerian city of Yola, 13-year-old Hadiza was left to fend for herself.
Distressed and confused, Hadiza roamed the streets until her older (...)
Two women suicide bombers blew themselves up at a market in northeast Nigeria's Madagali town on Friday morning, killing at least 30 people and wounding 67, an army spokesman told The Associated Press.
Friday's blasts struck simultaneously at (...)
Local lawmakers in northeast Nigeria are investigating fresh allegations that officials have diverted food aid intended for people who have fled from Boko Haram.
The allegations in Adamawa state center on officials and market traders accused of (...)
A Nigerian civil defense official says a bomb blast near a market in the northeast Nigerian city of Yola has killed 31 people.
According to AP, Sa'ad Bello of the National Emergency Management Agency said Friday another 38 people are being treated (...)
More than 1.5 million Nigerians displaced by the militant group Boko Haram are flocking to relief centers across the country's northeast, where they are met with overcrowded facilities and a shortage of supplies, AP reported.
Boko Haram's five-year (...)
Nigeria's military says it has closed hundreds of miles (kilometers) of its northeastern border with Cameroon to stop Islamic extremists using the country as a haven and launch pad for attacks, AP reported.
Brig. Gen. Rogers Nicholas of the 23rd (...)
A businessman in northeast Nigeria ripped off his pajamas and jumped out a window, hoping his dark skin would not be visible to the people attacking his village, Hearing his neighbors' screams around midnight.
Like many villages in the region in (...)
Officials said new flooding in Nigeria has killed at least 11 people, AP reported.
Hassan Mijinyawa, a spokesman for Taraba state, said Monday that those killed came from the Karim Lamido area of the state. He said the dead included university (...)
