Two female suicide bombers attack a mosque in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing 22 worshippers, the army says.

This is the heartbreaking story of a 2-year-old Nigerian boy who was abandoned by his parents and community for being a ‘witch’.

At least 56 people are killed in a double suicide bombing at a camp sheltering people displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in north-east Nigeria.

At least 50 people are reported killed in north-eastern Nigeria in a gun and bomb attack by suspected Boko Haram militants.

Scores of people are reported killed in an explosion at an industrial gas plant in southern Nigeria.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the arrest of his predecessor's security adviser who allegedly stole more than $2bn ($1.31).

An explosion in the Nigerian city of Yola causes multiple deaths and injuries, with some reports saying more than 30 people may have died.

Islamist militant group Boko Haram releases photos apparently showing a rocket-making factory in north-eastern Nigeria.

Two bomb attacks in north-eastern Nigeria have left at least 42 people dead and more than 100 injured, officials say.

At least 30 people have died after two explosions at a mosque near the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, an emergency official says.

A series of explosions on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Abuja kills at least 18 people, officials say.

At least 54 people have been killed in three explosions in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, police say.

The roll-out of high-speed mobile connectivity in Africa and India is demonstrating yet again how emerging economies can leapfrog traditional developmental stages to accelerate their economic growth.

A Nigerian migrant mother calls her baby girl "Gift" after a difficult delivery on an Italian navy ship that rescued her in the Mediterranean.

Boko Haram extremists kill 28 people during attacks on remote villages in northeast Nigeria, members of a civilian defense group says.

20 people die in a bomb attack in north-western Nigeria's Zaria city, state governor Nasir El-Rufa'i says.

Two bomb attacks on the central Nigerian city of Jos leave at least 44 people dead, the authorities say.

Two girls blew themselves up near a crowded mosque in northeast Nigeria's biggest city, killing about 30 people, witnesses said.

Boko Haram militants rape hundreds of women and girls in Nigeria as a deliberate strategy to dominate rural residents and possibly even create a new generation of Islamist militants.

Former hostages held by Boko Haram militants in northern Nigeria say some fellow captives were stoned to death as the army approached to rescue them.