Hundreds of civilians, including many children, have been kidnapped and are being used as human shields by Boko Haram extremists, a top Nigerian official confirmed Wednesday. Several hundred people were abducted by the Islamic militants as they retreated earlier this month from Damasak in northea...

“I saw Boko Haram with my own eyes and I saw the bodies. If I think about the corpses, I will cry.” These are the words of 12-year-old Tahiru Abakhar whose family was attacked by Boko Haram in Baga and again hounded by the Islamist group in other towns until they fled to neighbouring Chad. In ...

The Federal Government has commenced massive distribution of relief supports through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) that have returned to their communities which were recently liberated by the military from insurgents in Adamawa State. Fla...

The Nigerian soldiers on Tuesday successfully completed a raid on all terrorists’ camps in Alagarno in Borno State, which is one of the few remaining towns to be liberated from the Boko Haram sect. This was confirmed on Tuesday by the Director of Defence Information (DDI), Maj-Gen. Chris Olukolad...

The two-day meeting, which holds in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, is to prepare for a Heads of State summit this week. The countdown for the end of insurgency by the Nigeria-based terrorist sect, Boko Haram, has begun. Defence and Foreign Affairs Ministers from member countries of the Economic Commu...

The Federal Government has responded to the cries of over 3,788 persons in Agwagune community, Biase Local Government Area of Cross River State affected by flood and landslide for several years. The Federal Government, through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) donated building materia...

Today, United Nations Agencies and non-governmental organizations are launching the Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP) for Nigerian refugees. This appeal is urgently seeking USD 174.4 million to protect and assist some 192,000 people who have fled brutal attacks by insurgents in north-eastern Nig...

UNICEF said on Monday that no fewer than 800,000 children have fled their homes in north-eastern Nigeria because of the activities Boko Haram insurgents. UNICEF’s regional director for West and Central Africa, Manuel Fontaine, told newsmen in Berlin that the number of child refugees has over doub...

Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai on Monday criticised Nigerian and world leaders for not doing enough to help free 219 schoolgirls kidnapped a year ago by Boko Haram militants. “In my opinion, Nigerian leaders and the international community have not done enough to help you,” she said in a l...

Children who have fled deadly Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria have been learning to cope with the tragedies through therapy programs operated by Unicef. Here are some examples of how they remember the attacks and what they miss most from their homes. See all photos at: http://www.wsj.com/articles/p...