"The police tactical units deployed in the school engaged them into a gun duel," the police force said. "Unfortunately, the suspected bandits had already scaled through the fence of the school and abducted 25 students from their hostel to [an] unknown destination." One staff member was killed, while another suffered an injured hand.

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, has disclosed how a planned U.S.-assisted operation to rescue the Chibok schoolgirls in 2014 was aborted due to suspected leaks within the Nigerian military.

A Nigerian official claimed Monday that the country's military knows the whereabouts of the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists, though the official said the exact location could not be disclosed. U.S. military officials were quick to say ...

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the U.S. will do everything it can to help Nigeria find nearly 300 teenage girls missing since they were kidnapped from school three weeks ago by an Islamist extremist group that has threatened to sell them.

(CNN) — US President Donald Trump caused alarm across Nigeria over the weekend when he said he was contemplating military action in Africa’s most populous nation in response to what he claimed was a “mass slaughter” of Christians by Islamist ...