The Takfiri Boko Haram terrorist group attacks a military post in southern Niger, killing 16 soldiers and wounding nine more, the Nigerien Defense Ministry says.

Desperate Nigerians are caught in the midst of a rash of abductions across the impoverished northwest of Nigeria, where thousands of bandits ask for hefty ransoms from families in return for their kidnapped children.

The armed gangs in the region terrorize inhabitants by looting villages, stealing cattle, and taking people hostage.

Nigerian police have killed three people and wounded a dozen more after attacking Ashura mourners in Nigeria’s Sokoto state, a report says.

Assailants ambush buses carrying Muslims in central Nigeria, killing at least 22 of them and injuring 14 others.

One abducted girl from the Nigerian town of Chibok is freed and reunited with her parents seven years after Boko Haram militants kidnapped her and more than 200 of her classmates.

One of the lawyers of Nigeria’s Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky says the Nigerian government is seeking to file a new lawsuit as part of attempts to keep him in Nigeria and prevent him from leaving the country for medical treatment.

Senior Bahraini Shia cleric Sheikh Qassim felicitates Nigeria’s Sheikh Zakzaky on his acquittal from all charges leveled against him, and his release from prison.

Nigeria’s Kaduna state aims to foil Sheikh Zakzaky's release by filing a new charge against the prominent cleric, his attorney reveals.

Activist says Nigeria’s acquittal of Shia cleric Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky and his wife reveals the abject failure of Abuja’s incrimination campaign.