The government is planning to build new drug rehabilitation centres and refurbish existing ones in the coming year, a senior welfare official says. U Tun Zaw, director of the Department of Rehabilitation under the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, said that under new regulation...

Boko Haram have rejected claims by the military that it had been routed by a four-nation offensive in a video released online yesterday, which does not show the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau. The unidentified speaker calls Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, who have been battling the militants,...

At least 37 people have been killed in a series of bomb blasts at bus stations in northeastern Nigeria's Gombe city, sources told Al Jazeera. The first blast on Wednesday night struck near the Dadin Kowa terminal, prior to a second blast a few minutes later. Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris, reporting...