Police said a group of suspected militants attacked a police station in Nigeria's Kano province on Friday.
Nearly a week after a spate of bombings and shootings in northern Nigeria killed more than 200 people, authorities are fighting to stay ahead of the militants blamed for the attacks.
A German worker was kidnapped Thursday in Kano, a northern Nigerian city wracked by violence, police said.
A joint military task force in Nigeria arrested 158 suspected members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, security sources told CNN Tuesday, three days after a spate of bombings and shootings left more than 200 people dead in Nigeria's second-largest city.
CNN's Nima Elbagir says some of the Kano attack victims were too scared to go to the hospital.
A night-time curfew has been imposed in the Nigerian city of Kano, days after a deadly series of attacks.
Nigeria's president toured his nation's second largest city Sunday after blasts there killed at least 157 people, and left the police headquarters and other government buildings in charred ruins.
Nigeria imposed a 24-hour curfew Saturday in the northern city of Kano after assailants killed scores of people and wounded others in a hail of gunfire and coordinated bombings of eight government sites.
At least two police officers died and others were injured Friday when assailants launched a coordinated attack on as many as eight government sites in the northern Nigeria city of Kano, authorities said.
Nigerians took to the streets for the second day of a nationwide strike Tuesday, showing their anger over a government decision that has more than doubled fuel prices in the largely impoverished country.
Christian Purefoy reports on controversy over the election of incumbent Goodluck Jonathan as Nigeria's president.
Incumbent Goodluck Jonathan is the winner of the presidential election in Nigeria, the chairman of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission declared Monday.
Residents of Kano in Nigeria are struggling to keep alive their centuries-old tradition of hand-dying delicate cloth a deep indigo blue, with their trade under threat from the realities of modern commerce.
The ancient practice of fabric dyeing in northern Nigeria meets some modern competition. CNN's Christian Purefoy reports.
More than 2 million people have been displaced in northern Nigeria after flood gates on two dams were opened to release rising waters along the Niger River, a state official said Friday.
A forlorn murmur of young voices echoes from a shack pieced together from rusted corrugated iron.
Some 700 people have been killed in clashes with Islamic militants in Nigeria, a military commander told CNN.
The polio eradication campaign has made remarkable strides in Nigeria. But a recent outbreak -- caused by the vaccine itself -- threatens to derail it
Authorities in northern Nigeria have filed a $2 billion civil case and were preparing criminal charges against the U.S. drug company Pfizer
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in two more Nigerian states, the Agricultural Ministry said Thursday.
British soul singer Lemar beat Mariah Carey for Best Album at this year's Music of Black Origin (MOBO) awards.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said Saturday the state of emergency he declared in part of his country was necessary to quell deadly religious violence.
A small plane has crashed in the water off a beach in the Nigerian city of Lagos, and a search and recovery operation will begin at dawn Saturday, emergency officials told CNN.
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