Nigeria says dozens of people were killed earlier this week in sectarian violence sparked by a dispute in a market in the country’s north.

Hundreds of Nigerians have rallied in the country's capital Abuja to demand the immediate release of prominent Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.

Nigerians marks the fourth anniversary of mass kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram terrorists.

Nigeria plans to negotiate with Daesh-linked Boko Haram terrorists to secure the release of the schoolgirls abducted by the group in 2014 as well as last month.

The violence took place in Nigeria’s Plateau state, in the latest flare-up linked to tensions over grazing rights.

More than 100 girls missing for a week after a Boko Haram attack on their school in northeast Nigeria have been kidnapped, the government says.

One person was killed after heavy rains caused rivers to burst their banks in southeastern Nigeria.

Boko Haram extremists killed at least 27 people by shooting them and slitting their throats as they attacked several villages in northern Nigeria's Borno state in the past week.

Ethnic tensions have surfaced in the last few months amid calls for a separate southeastern state, known as Biafra, while some in the restive southern Niger Delta oil hub have called for independence and Boko Haram militants seek a state in the northeast.

A suspected Boko Haram terrorist claims the terror group plans to bomb the Nigerian capital Abuja.