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New Nigerian president seeks to crush 'godless' Boko Haram

New Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari promised on Friday to eradicate the "mindless, godless" mili...

May 29, 2015 07:21 PM EDT

Boko Haram fighters killed older boys and men in front of their families before taking women and chi...

May 03, 2015 06:17 PM EDT

Nigeria's military is confident it has Boko Haram cornered, but a final push to clear the Islamist m...

May 02, 2015 07:33 PM EDT

U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday commended Nigerian President-elect Muhammadu Buhari and cur...

Apr 01, 2015 10:14 AM EDT

Nigeria's opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) declared an election victory on Tuesday for for...

Mar 31, 2015 11:18 AM EDT

"Boko Haram is finished" shouted a jubilant soldier from Niger as his comrades danced and waved thei...

Mar 21, 2015 09:36 AM EDT

Nigeria has brought in hundreds of mercenaries from South Africa and the former Soviet Union to give...

Mar 13, 2015 09:22 AM EDT

Nigeria's electoral commission says it is postponing the Feb. 14 presidential election until March 2...

Feb 07, 2015 11:24 PM EST

In late 2013, Nigeria's then central bank governor Lamido Sanusi wrote to President Goodluck Jonatha...

Feb 06, 2015 07:45 AM EST

A bomb blast that went off just minutes after Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan left an election...

Feb 03, 2015 07:19 AM EST

The United States will deny entry to anyone responsible for stoking violence during Nigeria's electi...

Jan 26, 2015 04:25 AM EST

Chad said it believed Nigeria's secret deal with Boko Haram Islamists to free more than 200 kidnappe...

Oct 24, 2014 08:24 AM EDT

A wave of violence hours after Nigeria's government announced a truce with Boko Haram raised doubt o...

Oct 19, 2014 09:22 AM EDT

Protesters demanding the release of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped six months ago by I...

Oct 15, 2014 12:56 AM EDT