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.

Another 234 women and children have been rescued from Boko Haram militants in Nigeria, the military announces.

The Nigerian military says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women from an area where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is active.

More than 50 of the girls abducted by militant Islamists in Nigeria last year were seen alive three weeks ago, a woman tells the BBC.

The Nigerian opposition has made more gains in the final round of the country's election process.

Nigerians are to vote for state governors in the final round of the country's election process.

Former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari has become the first opposition candidate to win a presidential election in Nigeria