Nigerian officials say gunmen have kidnapped many students from an Islamic school in Nigeria - the latest in a series of such attacks on schools.

More than 100 people are missing and feared dead after a boat breaks up and sinks in Nigeria’s northern Kebbi state.

Hundreds of protesters partially block a highway into Nigeria's capital Abuja after residents reported a spate of kidnappings in the

Security forces in Nigeria launch a massive manhunt after a series of coordinated attacks by heavily-armed assailants that resulted in the escape of more than 1,800 inmates from a prison in the country's troubled southeast.

A group of heavily-armed men attempt to kidnap more students in Nigeria's Kaduna state where dozens of others from an earlier attack  remain missing. 

Gunmen attacked the Federal College of Forestry and kidnapped more than 30 students.

About 30 students are kidnapped by gunmen in a raid on a college in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kaduna.

Almost 280 children who were kidnapped by heavily armed men from their boarding school in Nigeria late last week have been released, officials say.

Heavily-armed gunmen have abducted hundreds of schoolchildren in northwestern Nigeria, the second such kidnapping in a little over a week amid a surge in armed militancy in the African country.

A small Nigerian air force passenger plane crashed just outside Abuja airport, killing all seven people on board.