TEHRAN, February 26 - Nigeria has confirmed another mass kidnapping of schoolgirls in the militancy-riddled northeast, saying it has deployed extra troops and planes to search for over 100 girls, who remain missing following a Boko Haram raid on their school last week.
TEHRAN, February 20 - Takfiri Boko Haram militants have attacked a village in northeast Nigeria, unsuccessfully attempting to kidnap girls at a boarding school there.
TEHRAN, February 18 - A Nigerian court has released 475 people allegedly affiliated with Boko Haram for rehabilitation, the justice ministry said on Sunday, as the country’s biggest legal investigation of the militant insurgency continues.
TEHRAN, February 17- Some 19 people have been killed and dozens more wounded when three bombers blew themselves up in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State, the hardest hit by Daesh-inspired Boko Haram militancy.
TEHRAN, January 15 - Nigeria's government on Monday summoned the United States ambassador to explain reported remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump that some immigrants from Africa and Haiti come from "shithole" countries, Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said.
At le TEHRAN, January 9 - At least a dozen people were killed over the weekend in apparent tit-for-tat clashes between farmers and cattle herders in central Nigeria, police and community sources said Monday.
TEHRAN, December 28 - While thousands are decrying the reported abuse of Ethiopian migrants in Saudi Arabia, one woman hopes to stir more activism in Africa.
TEHRAN, November 9 - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been strongly urged to release the African country’s senior Shia cleric and leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, who was seriously wounded and detained in a brutal raid on his residence nearly two years ago.
TEHRAN, November 7 - Nigerian security forces have opened fire on the supporters of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) during an annual religious procession in the country’s north, killing four people.
TEHRAN, October 8 - Iranian Deputy Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Mohammad-Reza Fayyaz said the volume of mutual economic exchanges between Iran and Nigeria has increased over last Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2016, March 20, 2017).
TEHRAN, October 8 - The Federal Government of Nigeria has reaffirmed that it does not need the permission of any nation before declaring anyone or group a terrorist organisation.
TEHRAN, September 26 - The World Health Organization said Tuesday it has completed a massive cholera vaccination campaign in restive northeastern Nigeria, where the disease has already killed 54 people.
TEHRAN, September 18 - The United Nations says at least 44 people have died in a cholera outbreak in the militancy-hit northeast of Nigeria, where the first case of the disease was identified nearly five weeks ago.
TEHRAN, September 6 - Cholera is spreading fast through camps housing people displaced by Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, September 2 - Suspected Takfiri Boko Haram militants have killed at least 18 people in northeastern Nigeria near the border with Cameroon in the latest surge of lethal assaults by the terror outfit in the restive region, local sources say.
TEHRAN, July 8, YJC -A Nigerian court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the jailed leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), against the country’s military over its human rights violations.
TEHRAN, June 26, YJC - The Nigerian police say multiple bomb attacks have claimed the lives of at least 16 people and wounded more than a dozen others in the country’s troubled northeast.