Insecurity and poor mobile networks have forced farmers in Oyo to flee, chief says

The Federal Government and governors yesterday came under intense pressure to immediately secure the release of teachers, pupils and students abducted by terrorists in Oyo and…

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Armed gangs are blamed for raiding remote villages, looting and razing homes and kidnapping people for ransom, especially in parts of northwestern and central Nigeria.

Teachers and principals in Nigeria demand urgent government action on school safety amidst rising abductions and insecurity, urging protection for students

Families have been left in despair after 39 pupils and seven teachers were kidnapped from classrooms in Oyo state, a part of the country previously considered relatively peaceful

Gunmen kidnap seven students in northwestern Nigeria; one escapes while police work to rescue the others.

Military efforts to rescue dozens of pupils and teachers kidnapped in separate school attacks in Oyo and Borno states have been slowed by...

Insecurity and poor mobile networks have forced farmers in Oyo to flee, chief says

It was mid-morning when Aduke Balogun noticed a masked man in military fatigues walking towards her children's school.

For 18 agonising days, the people of Ahoro-Esienle have lived in a world suspended between hope and heartbreak.

A senior government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to comment publicly on the operation, said security agencies had made…

THE Nigerian Air Force, NAF, yesterday, disclosed that it has continued to provide aerial surveillance support to ongoing efforts aimed at rescuing teachers and pupils abducted…

Three weeks after gunmen stormed schools in Oriire and whisked away dozens of teachers and pupils, aerial intelligence from the Niger...