The human rights group says Nigerian soldiers and militiamen have murdered, tortured and abused thousands of detainees since March 2011
Former militants in Nigeria’s Niger Delta say unrest may resume if new president ends amnesty program and monthly payments that brought peace to oil-producing region
Muhammadu Buhari, first Nigerian to defeat a sitting president in popular elections, faces major issues, such as high unemployment, corruption, Boko Haram violence
When pomp and circumstance of inauguration end in Abuja, Buhari will sit down to the hard task of governing Nigeria
Although it is the largest oil producer in Africa, country has nearly ran out of fuel it needs to power its generators, cars and airplanes over the past week
Governor of Nigeria’s Rivers State has set up a commission of inquiry to look into violence that broke out across the state around the time of the presidential and governor votes in March and April
Wasila Tasiu faced murder charges in northern state of Kano for killing her husband and three others with poison-laced meal last year
'Trekking' commemorates unprecedented presidential poll, which saw Goodluck Jonathan lose, then peacefully step aside
Close encounter with violent Nigerian insurgent group Boko Haram could not stop 26-year-old Abubakar Umar getting his degree at American University in Yola
As they took over parts of Nigeria’s northeast last year, radical Islamists sought to indoctrinate females, force them into marriage or slavery
Michika was one of many towns Nigeria’s military lost control of last year as Boko Haram started seizing territory across the northeast
Boko Haram suspected in suicide bombing in northeastern town of Potiskum that ended with students wounded and attacker dead
Niger is forcing Nigerians away from Lake Chad, and their livelihoods, in wake of deadly battle with Boko Haram extremist group
After their rescue from a Boko Haram stronghold in northeast Nigeria, nearly 300 women, girls and children are starting the long road back to normalcy. VOA's Chris Stein reports.
Hundreds of women, girls and children are free from Boko Haram, but not from trauma they endured during captivity
President Goodluck Jonathan fires head of police, other officials weeks before he is to hand over power to incoming president Muhammadu Buhari
Identities of 200 girls and 93 women Nigerian military says it rescued from Boko Haram remain unknown
Two military spokesmen have differed over possibility of rescued girls being from Chibok
Military takes back nearly all towns, villages in northeast, except for massive expanse of forest that spreads thousands of square kilometers over several states
Kidnapping of 276 teenage schoolgirls from their dormitory in Chibok, Nigeria, struck a chord outside the northeast that five years of murderous insurgency there had not
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