Unknown gunmen have attacked a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped 140 students, the latest in a series of mass abductions targeting schoolchildren and pupils in the African country.

The Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to ISWAP -- a rival Daesh offshoot in the West African country.

New UN report says years-long conflict in NE Nigeria has killed some 324,000 children under five.

Fifteen Nigerian captives abducted by bandits who raided a religious school escape their abductors while the guards were sleeping.

A police officer is killed and five teachers are abducted from a school in northwestern Nigeria.

The Nigeria-based Boko Haram terror group confirms the death of its notorious ringleader, Abubakar Shekau, in a video message.

The World Bank Country Director for Nigeria said the worsening insecurity had impacted the Nigerian economy.

Daesh reportedly announces the self-afflicted death of Boko Haram’s notorious ringleader.

Cattle rustlers have killed 88 people in raids on seven villages in northwest Nigeria's Kebbi state.

Some 200 children were abducted by unknown armed bandits from an Islamic school in north-central Niger state on Sunday.