President Donald J. Trump has threatened possible U.S. military action in Nigeria, saying the United States “may very well go into that now disgraced country, guns-a-blazing” if Nigeria’s government ...

Troops of the Joint Task Force Operation MESA in the Shanono Local Government Area of Kano State, led by 3 Brigade Nigerian Army, have neutralised no fewer than 19 bandits during an encounter with the ...

Soldiers in northwest Nigeria have killed 80 members of a criminal gang in a gunfight, according to a security report for the United Nations seen by AFP Sunday.

The Army said further updates would be provided as more information becomes available, indicating that the operations may still be ongoing or under assessment. Nigerian troops on patrol in northeast ...

The Chief of Army Staff, Major General Waidi Shaibu, has pledged to deal decisively with the newly emerged terrorist group, ...

The Salafist jihadists JNIM have claimed an attack in northern Nigeria, on the border with Benin. It is the first time the al ...

Troops of the Nigerian military have killed no fewer than 80 bandits who attempted to infiltrate Kebbi State from the Zamfara border, in what has been described as one of the most decisive security ...

ABUJA (Reuters) -More people were killed by bandits or insurgents in Nigeria in the first half of this year than in all of 2024, according to figures released on Tuesday by Nigeria's human rights ...

Nigeria's top general Wednesday said the military did not have enough resources to win its war against jihadist groups and ...

Nigeria is bleeding from its ungoverned spaces which are widening and there is palpable fear from forest to forest, creek to creek and state to state. Across the country, terrorists, bandits, ...

Troops of the Nigerian Army have killed scores of bandits after an attack on Bangi community in Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State. Bandits, had on Tuesday June 24, launched an attack on the ...

Nigerian troops killed 45 members of an armed criminal gang in a shootout in the north-central Niger state, according to a conflict monitors' report shared with the UN and seen by AFP on Monday. The ...