Witnesses and security officials say at least 12 people have been critically injured when a gunman opened fire outside a school in Nigeria’s violence-plagued northeastern state of Yobe. Multiple students at the College of Administrative and Business Studies (CABS) in the city of Potiskum, situated about 575 kilometers (350 miles) northeast of the capital, Abuja, said the gunman arrived at around... 

Nigeria’s military says the hideout of Boko Haram Takfiri militants who kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls last month has been located. “The good news for the parents is that we know where they are, but we cannot tell you,” Nigeria’s Chief of Defense Staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh said on Monday. “We can’t kill our girls in the name of trying to get them back,” Badeh added. On April... 

Nigerian soldiers ride on an armored vehicle in Maiduguri, the capital city of the northeastern Borno State. The Nigerian Senate has approved a request by the country’s president to extend emergency rule in the restive northeast for another six months. Lawmakers in Nigeria’s upper house of parliament unanimously voted on Thursday “to extend the state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and...