Gunmen have opened fire on a crowded market in northeastern Nigeria, leaving at least seven people dead, witnesses and the police say.

Prominent Shia leader Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky says the Untied States has been behind series of co-ordinated terrorist attacks across Nigeria.

Eleven people have been killed in deadly clashes after Nigerian troops and police raided an alleged hideout of Boko Haram.

At least three people have been killed in a bomb blast at a church in the Nigerian city of Jos.

A British and an Italian hostage held by militant groups in Nigeria have been killed by their captures after a joint British-Nigerian rescue operation failed to free them.

At least seven people have been killed in an attack by gunmen on a police station and two banks in a remote part of northeast Nigeria.

Unknown assailants have shot and killed a senior customs officer in Nigeria’s northern state of Yobe, police sources say.

Bomb blasts and gunfire have rocked the northeastern Nigerian city of Gombe and five people have been shot and killed at a mosque in Kano.

Nigerian militants, known as Boko Haram, have claimed responsibility for a recent attack in the north of the country that claimed about 30 lives.

Military sources say armed men opened fire and set off bombs at a marketplace in Nigeria’s northeast, killing more civilians.

Unknown assailants have stormed a federal prison in central Nigeria with heavy gunfire and explosives before killing one the wardens and emptying the jail of its 200 inmates.

At least one person has been killed after two powerful bombs went off in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, Press TV reports.

Boko Haram militants have claimed responsibility for the recent bomb attacks at two major military bases in Nigeria’s northern city of Kaduna.

A bomb explosion has targeted a military barracks in Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says.

Nigerian troops have killed eleven members of the militant group Boko Haram during a gun battle at a checkpoint in the northeastern city of Maiduguri.

Armed men have killed 15 villagers in an overnight attack and set their bodies on fire in Nigeria's northern state of Zamfara as violence rages on in the African country.

A major oil workers' union in Nigeria has vowed to shut down all oil and natural gas production in the country if the government will not restore fuel subsidies.

Fresh explosions and gunfire have hit the Nigerian city of Kano as the death toll from last week's coordinated attacks and gun battles in the violence-hit city reached 185.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the series of coordinated attacks that recently killed scores of people in the north of Nigeria.

The death toll from Friday's attacks carried out by Boko Haram militant group in the northern Nigeria city of Kano has risen to 180, medics say.

Hours after a wave of deadly blasts and gunfire hit the Nigerian city of Kano, authorities have relaxed a curfew with relative calm returning to the northern city.

Two explosions have rocked Nigeria's southern city of Yenagoa hours after a wave of deadly blasts and gunfire hit the city of Kano.

Nigerian authorities have imposed a 24-hour curfew in Nigeria's second-largest city of Kano following a string of bomb attacks that claimed the lives of several people.

Several people have been killed in a series of bombings by the extremist group Boko Haram that targeted police stations and immigration offices in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.

Nigerian protesters have once again taken to the streets despite the government's concession to partially restore fuel subsidies, two weeks after their removal doubled petrol prices.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered a decrease in fuel prices in a bid to end a nationwide strike heading into a second week.

Two major unions in Nigeria have vowed to continue nationwide strikes and protests over spiraling fuel prices in the country after negotiations with the government failed.

Talks between Nigerian government and union leaders over the state's controversial decision of removing the fuel subsidies have ended without an agreement.

Nigerian unions have temporarily suspended protests against increased petrol prices as union leaders prepare to hold talks with government officials on reversing a decision to cut petrol subsidies.

Two people have been killed by a mob that also burned mosques and homes in an overnight attack on a village in Nigeria's northeastern state of Adamawa.

The main oil workers' union in Nigeria has pledged to shut down all crude and natural gas production in the country if the government will not restore fuel subsidy.

As many as eight people, including a seven-year-old child and four police officers, have reportedly been killed, in gunmen's attack on a bar in northern Nigeria.

At least six people have been killed in a shooting attack in northern Nigeria amid a nationwide strike over soaring fuel prices in the country.

A nationwide strike over soaring fuel prices in Nigeria enters its second day after the death of six people in related protests across the oil-rich African country.

At least six people have been killed in Nigeria during mass protests over elimination of a fuel subsidy which has sparked a general strike across the country.

Nigerians have begun a nationwide walkout over the removal of fuel subsidies in Africa's largest oil-producing nation with labor unions set to join the strike.

Gunmen have attacked a town hall in rural northeast Nigeria, killing at least 20 people at a meeting of a Christian ethnic group.

At least one person has been killed in Nigeria when a demonstration against the government's decision to end a fuel subsidy program turned violent.

A move by the Nigerian government to scrap fuel subsidies and to hike petrol prices to more than double has drawn fire from people in the oil-rich African country.

At least 50 people, including women and children have been killed during violent clashes between ethnic groups in southeastern Nigeria.