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.

Armed men abduct hundreds of students along with some of their teachers after attacking their school in central Nigeria.

The raid on Friday night is seen as a ‘fight-back’ after recent losses suffered by the terrorists.

A female suicide bomber in northern Cameroon kills at least 13 people, including children, a UN report says.

Boko Haram and a splinter group known as ISWAP have killed 36,000 people in northeastern Nigeria since 2009.

Members of the Takfiri Boko Haram terrorist group kill at least 11 people in a Christmas Eve assault on a village in the volatile northeastern Nigerian state of Borno.