ABUJA, April 17 (Reuters) - Gunmen abducted secondary school students heading to university entrance examinations and other travellers in central Nigeria's Benue state, the region's governor said late ...

The governor did not specify the exact number of those kidnapped, but local media said it was 17. The incident comes amid a ...

There were at least 26 Christians murdered across northern Nigeria over the Easter weekend, with even more taken captive by ...

Several of 14 people who were kidnapped on Wednesday in Nigeria s central Benue State have been rescued, local police said.

Gunmen attacked a passenger bus in northcentral Nigeria ‘s Benue state on Thursday, abducting some students on their way to sit university examinations, officials said. The students and other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kidnapped children were handed over to the authorities in Minna on December 22 (Chenemi Bamaiyi) (Chenemi Bamaiyi/AFP/AFP) The ...

The wife of a Nigerian returnee has narrated how repeated kidnapping incidents involving her family devastated his finances and forced him to start life ...

In 2025, over 7,000 Nigerian Christians were murdered by Islamic militants, including Boko Haram, also known as JAS, Islamic State – West African Province (ISWAP), JNIM, an Al-Qaeda affiliate, and ...

Relatives meet with abducted girls after the releasing 82 of school girls, kidnapped by Boko Haram in Chibok back in 2014, at Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja, Nigeria on May 20, 2017. A Nigerian ...

The Nigerian government paid Boko Haram militants a "huge" ransom of millions of dollars to free up to 230 children and staff the jihadists abducted from a Catholic school in November, intelligence ...