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People who were kidnapped after a church service in November 2024 leave after a church meeting in Kaduna, Nigeria, on Nov. 6, 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Catholic priest calls for ‘radical restructuring’ of Nigeria

Jan 5
Ngala Killian Chimtom

A vendor sells local newspapers with headlines referring to US President Donald Trump’s comments about Nigeria, on the street of Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Gunmen kill at least 30 villagers and abduct others during raid in northern Nigeria

Jan 5
Associated Press

People visit the site of a U.S. airstrike in Northwest, Jabo, Nigeria, Friday, Dec. 26, 2025. (Credit: Tunde Omolehin/AP.)

Nigerian villagers are rattled by US airstrikes that made their homes shake and the sky glow red

Dec 27, 2025
Ope Adetayo,
Tunde Omolehin, Associated Press

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (Credit: Alex Brandon/AP.)

What to know about the militants targeted by US airstrikes in northwest Nigeria

Dec 26, 2025
Chinedu Asadu,
Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago club, Monday, Dec. 22, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (Credit: Alex Brandon/AP.)

Trump orders US strike on Islamic State targets in Nigeria

Dec 26, 2025
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Freed students of St. Mary’s Catholic School in the Papiri community, upon their arrival at the government house, in Minna, Nigeria, Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Tears of joy as Nigerian families reunite with kidnapped schoolchildren

Dec 25, 2025
Associated Press

Freed students from St. Mary’s Catholic School in the Papiri community arrive at the government house, in Minna, Nigeria, Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Nigerians welcome 130 schoolchildren and teachers released after mass abduction

Dec 23, 2025
Associated Press

Freed students of St. Mary’s Catholic School in the Papiri community are reunited with their parents on Dec. 9, 2025. (Credit: Afolabi Sotunde/AP.)

130 schoolchildren and staff abducted in Nigeria last month have been released, police say

Dec 22, 2025
Dyepkazah Shibayan,
Associated Press

Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, center, arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Sept. 1, 2024. (Credit: Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP.)

Under-fire Nigerian bishop says Christian genocide claims ‘escalated by the Trump administration’

Dec 13, 2025
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Precious Njikonye, center, the mother of a student at St. Mary's Catholic School, who was abducted by gunmen and later released, sits outside her house in Papiri, Nigeria, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Credit: Afolabi Sotunde/AP.)

‘They said they’d shoot us’: Nigerian child recalls how he was taken in mass school abduction

Dec 11, 2025
Ope Adetayo,
Afolabi Sotunde, Associated Press

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