Boko Haram

The US criticises a decision to delay Nigeria’s general elections amid concerns the elections will be not be safe from attacks by Boko Haram fighters.

Nigeria is planning to delay its general election so that a multinational force can try and reclaim large swathes of the country from militant Islamist group Boko Haram, an official says.

Chadian troops say they have killed more than 200 militants from Boko Haram on in a battle in the north-eastern Nigerian towns of Gambaru and Ngala, which are near the border with Cameroon.

Fighters from the Islamist group Boko Haram launch a second attack on the Borno state capital of Maiduguri.

In the run up to the general elections in Nigeria – British Nigerians tell Channel 4 News that they feel a strong national identity – even though the country still remains divided at home.

The Islamist militant group Boko Haram launch an assault on the Borno state capital Maiduguri which government forces say they have repelled.

Boko Haram says it is building an Islamic state to revive the memory of northern Nigeria’s Muslim empires, but for those in its the region life has become a litany of killings, kidnappings and hunger.

Cameroon’s army says it has freed 24 of the hostages kidnapped by Islamist group Boko Haram at the weekend – an attack in which 80 people were taken including 50 children.

Quite apart from the gruesome activities IS, the similarly-motivated Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria is spreading terror into neighbouring Cameroon.

One refugee fled through three miles of bodies from a Boko Haram attack, one thousand fled to an island on Lake Chad, and an Archbishop is demanding the West responds as it did to the Paris attacks.

Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram group has killed at least 100 civilians in the town of Baga, in northern Nigeria. Some reports suggest the death toll could be as high as 2,000.

Dozens of Nigerian boys are killed and 79 injured by a suicide bomber dressed as a student at a school assembly.

Children captured by the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram are being forced into helping military operations, according to a handful of children who were either released or escaped.

Pakistani campaigner Malala Yousafzai visits Nigeria to campaign on behalf of the schoolgirls abducted by rebel group, Boko Haram.