The Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, expressed deep concern on Monday over the escalating terrorism across ...

Experts provide insights into the various actors involved in Nigeria’s security challenge, their motivation and why efforts ...

Nowadays not a single day passes without a statement coming mainly from northern political figures and commentators ...

The North West Development Vanguard (NWDV) has criticised the Minister of Defence, Mohammad Badaru Abubakar, over the rising ...

Elite competition for dominance over illegal mining locations leads to funding of armed bandits, and the use of violence against civilians in north-west Nigeria.

That is, if you use a compass as a tool of navigation, each country can be divided into north, east, west and south. Before 1963, when Mid-West was created, Nigeria, when it was being administered ...

The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, on Thursday said the Nigerian Armed Forces had killed at least 1,770 ...

Illegal mining activities in Nigeria are devastating the country's economy, as well as fuelling violence. Strategic minerals mined in the country's north-west region include granite, gypsum ...

The North West Development Vanguard (NWDV ... suspected to be militia from outside Nigeria, were involved in the assaults. Similarly, in Plateau State, over 100 people were killed in multiple ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president said that at least 40 people were killed when Muslim gunmen, believed to be herders ...

Unidentified people attacked a community in Plateau State, Nigeria's north central region, in mid-April, killing at least 52 residents. A similar attack in the same state claimed 48 lives earlier in ...