Nigeria’s presidential election is expected to be the closest since the 1999 poll, as the UN says Islamist group Boko Haram has been unable to disrupt the vote.
As Nigerians go to the polls, terror group Boko Haram wages a bloody campaign to disrupt the election – killing six at polling stations and detonating a bomb at a school.
Militants claiming to be from the Islamic State group accept a pledge of allegiance from Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram, according to an audio message.
Jonathan Miller
With a former governor of Nigeria’s central bank alleging a US$20bn hole in the national finances, the breathtaking scale of corruption has become is a major issue in the country’s elections.
The leader of the Nigerian Islamist group says his fighters will obey Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-styled “caliph” whose followers have seized swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Jonathan Miller
A young Nigerian woman who escaped from a Boko Haram camp says she was held with some of the missing schoolgirls from Chibok as recently as three months ago.
A civil rights worker in Nigeria’s restive northeast organised the dramatic rescue of nearly 500 schoolgirls from a town under attack by Boko Haram.
Jonathan Miller
In a nation where jaw-dropping scandals make front page headlines day after day, there is one that does not. But day after day, every day, the Bring Back Our Girls campaign meets in Abuja.
Jonathan Miller
The new Emir of Kano emerged. He sat high on a magnificently decorated black stallion, his fist punching the hot air, master of all he surveyed. The city had seen nothing like this for half a century.
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.
Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller previews the Nigerian election, due to take place on 14 February.
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.