MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The crisis spawned by Boko Haram has drawn hundreds of thousands of people to a relatively little-known city in Nigeria that has finally become safe enough for them to wait out an end to the awful, deadly war. With villagers from the countryside pouring in, it is almost as th...

VOA News October 29, 2014 3:26 PM Witnesses say Boko Haram militants have taken over a city in northeastern Nigeria, again defying a cease-fire declared by the government earlier this month. Local residents tell VOA's Hausa language service that militants stormed the city of Mubi on Thursday,...

UN human rights experts call for progress in abduction of Chibok schoolgirls Boko Haram despatched 44 child suicide bombers to Nigeria and Cameroun last year, up from four in 2014, UNICEF, tracking the phenomenon said on Tuesday. The UN agency said child suicide bombings have surged 11-fold ov...

Boko Haram militants have slit the throats of 12 people in northeast Nigeria as the army was trying to evacuate civilians from the area, a military source and a witness said on Friday. The Islamist group has been driven out of much of the huge swathe of territory they controlled at the start of the...

Despite the gains made against Boko Haram by countries in the Lake Chad Basin region, the extremist group remained a threat, carrying out asymmetric attacks against civilians, senior United Nations officials told the Security Council today, stressing that only a concerted international approach woul...

Senator Iroegbu in Abuja Some Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) have abandoned their camp at Iza, Borno State, and fled into Samba Forest after their location came under heavy air attacks by the Alpha Jets, the military has said. The Director of Public Relations and Information (DOPRI), Nigerian Air...

A propaganda video by Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, has alerted Nigeria’s security agencies to possible terror attacks on soft targets. In the video posted on YouTube last week and removed after a few hours, Shekau made a reference to an impending attack “in the heart of your land”, a phras...

BY AUGUSTINE AMINU The UN Refugee Agency on Tuesday said violence by Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria’s northeast continues to send thousands of refugees across the border into neighbouring Cameroon. UN High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR), said that some 13,000 Nigerian refugees crossed from...

Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri
 The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, on Thursday said the war against Boko Haram terrorists had assumed a dangerous dimension that would require the collective efforts and vigilance of all Nigerians. Lawal made this comment...

Zara is 17 years old and she has a terrible story. It is the story of Boko Haram and what this brutal Islamist group is doing to thousands of people in north-eastern Nigeria and surrounding countries. Zara was kidnapped by Boko Haram and then freed by the army, but now finds herself sometimes wis...