The trial of leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky has been adjourned until September when the court will deliver a final ruling on an application asking it to dismiss all the charges and set the Islamic cleric free.

Nearly a dozen people are killed as gunmen storm a village and open fire on locals in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kaduna.

The defense team of Nigeria's top cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky has expressed deep concern that the government is stalling the sheikh's trial despite the deteriorating health condition of the cleric and his wife.

A Nigerian court has discharged and acquitted one hundred members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria.

A Nigerian court has ordered Nigeria’s intelligence agency to hand over custody of Sheikh Zakzaky to the Nigerian Correctional Service.

Six Nigerian schoolgirls and two staff members have been released unhurt three weeks after they were kidnapped in northern Kaduna state.

In Nigeria, prosecutors of top Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky’s case stressed that the he does not need to go for medical treatment abroad because health facilities there are capable of providing treatment.

Nigeria says dozens of people were killed earlier this week in sectarian violence sparked by a dispute in a market in the country’s north.

At least 45 are killed as armed bandits attack villagers in northern Nigeria.

Unknown gunmen abducted two Germans in Nigeria’s northern state of Kaduna on Wednesday morning, Nigerian officials announced on Thursday.