The United States has announced plans for the construction of a $537 million consulate in Nigeria’s commercial capital city of Lagos, as Washington seeks to strengthen its foothold in Africa's most populous country.

Police in northwest Nigeria say unidentified gunmen killed at least 16 people in a remote village.

Some Nigerians expressed concern over continuous holding of the passports of top Nigerian Islamic Cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaki.

At least 62 members of a volunteer vigilante group in Nigeria’s northwestern Kebbi state are killed by unidentified armed bandits.

Gunmen attack a village in northwest Nigeria, killing at least 50 people, according to residents.

Hundreds of residents flee villages in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state after gunmen reportedly killed at least 200 people and displaced thousands.

Armed criminal gangs have killed at least 200 people in attacks on villages in northwest Nigeria this week.

Nigerian security forces rescue nearly 100 kidnap victims held in forest hideouts in the country's northwest.

Gunmen in northwest Nigeria killed at least 38 people in three separate attacks on Sunday, in a latest spell of violence to hit the troubled region.

Dozens of people burn to death on a bus in Nigeria after gunmen attack them and torch their vehicle in a northwestern state, police say.