Internally displaced persons (IDPs) cannot return home yet because it is not yet safe, Interior Minister Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd) said yesterday. He said although most towns have been recaptured from insurgents in the Northeast, security threats still remained. The government, he sa...

Residents of the northeastern city Yola recall the most recent bombing and ask if anywhere is safe from Boko Haram Adamawa's state capital used to be a haven for Nigerians on the run from Boko Haram's violence. Lately, however, the city of Yola has been the site of several bombings. The most rece...

At least 47 students have been killed by a suicide bomber at a school assembly in the north-east Nigerian town of Potiskum, police have said. The explosion happened at a boys' science and technical school in the town. Militant group Boko Haram is believed to have caused the blast, police said....

At least 26 people have been killed in bombings in two major cities in northern Nigeria, emergency workers and witnesses say. The first blast at bus rank in Gombe killed at least 20 while another six died in an explosion at a market in Bauchi, they added. Militant Islamist group Boko Haram is wagin...