Security guards shot dead on Saturday a man who was trying to detonate a bomb at a camp in northeastern Nigeria for people displaced during a seven-year insurgency waged by Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
At least 10 people were killed and several injured Monday when police opened fire during clashes with pro-Iranian Shias outside the northern Nigerian city of Kano, witnesses and police said.
Nigerian militants on Tuesday bombed a state-run oil pipeline near the southern port city of Warri, the second attack within a week, a community leader and army officer said.
The Nigerian military said on Saturday it had rescued another of the missing Chibok schoolgirls near the border with Cameroon.
A truck conveying eight suspected Boko Haram Islamists exploded near a military checkpoint in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday, killing the occupants, an army spokesman told AFP.
Human Rights Watch on Monday accused Nigerian officials of sexually exploiting women and girls living in camps for victims of Boko Haram in the war-torn northeast.
Two suicide bombers killed at least five people on Saturday in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the heart of a seven-year-old insurgency by Islamist Boko Haram militants, a military source and residents said.
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday hit back at criticism from his wife about his leadership, saying she "belongs to my kitchen".
Boko Haram Islamists have released 21 of more than 200 girls kidnapped in 2014 in the northern town of Chibok, the Nigerian government said on Thursday.
Thirty members of Boko Haram and five Nigerien soldiers have been killed in fighting in the southeastern Diffa region of Niger, the defense ministry said in a statement late on Tuesday.
Gunmen have kidnapped 15 oil workers on a road near Nigeria's oil hub of Port Harcourt, police said on Saturday, in the latest unrest in the restive region.
Nigeria's air force said it had killed a number of senior Boko Haram fighters and possibly their overall leader, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived for talks on tackling the militants.
