What happened The Trump administration is sending about 200 troops to Nigeria to help train its military to fight Islamist militants, U.S. and Nigerian officials said Tuesday. The deployment comes weeks after President Donald Trump accused Nigeria’s government of failing … Read More
Mass kidnappings are increasingly common in Nigeria, with armed gangs targeting remote communities where security and government presence is limited. Nigerian troops have freed 62 hostages – and killed two militants in a separate operation – as part of an … Read More
At least 30 people have been killed, and several others have been abducted in a village attack in Nigeria. A group of armed men opened fire at a local market in the state of Nigeria, burning stalls and kidnapping people, … Read More
Trump warned terrorists there would be ‘hell to pay’ if slaughter of Christians continued in Nigeria Nigeria said it shared intelligence with the U.S. ahead of Christmas night airstrikes on ISIS targets in the country. The Nigerian Ministry of Foreign … Read More
Last group of freed Nigerian schoolchildren are due to be taken to Minna later on Monday to meet their relatives in time for Christmas celebrations, President Bola Tinubu’s spokesperson said. A final group of 130 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren freed by … Read More
MINNA/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s government on Monday rescued 100 schoolchildren abducted last month from a Catholic school in Niger state, in one of the country’s biggest mass kidnappings in recent years. The students arrived at the government … Read More
Fifty of the more than 300 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school on Friday have escaped and been reunited with their parents, according to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Catholic church. But about 253 kidnapped students … Read More
Abuja, NigeriaCNN — Gunmen who kidnapped at least 287 school children in Nigerialast Thursday have demanded a ransom of 1 billion naira ($621,848) and threatened to kill all of the students if their demands are not met, a member of the local community … Read More
A series of attacks on villages in central Nigeria over the last few days have killed nearly 200 people, local authorities said on Wednesday, in the latest case this year of such mass killings blamed on the farmer-herder crisis in … Read More
At least 85 civilians were killed in Kaduna state, north-west Nigeria, in an air strike during a Muslim religious celebration on Sunday, the local emergency management authority said. The civilians were killed in a “bombing mishap”, President Bola Tinubu said … Read More