Nigeria

The case of the missing schoolgirls in Nigeria has highlighted the country’s failure to protect its own people as it deals with the threat from the violent Islamist group Boko Haram.

Nigeria’s government says it will consider negotiating with Boko Haram, the Islamist group which kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls a month ago. Jonathan Miller reports from Abujua.

The governor of Borno state, in Nigeria, visits the town of Gamboru Ngala, where around 300 people were massacred by Boko Haram last week.

Around 100 kidnapped girls are seen for the first time in a video reported to have been released by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram. Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller reports from Abuja.

David Cameron joins other western leaders in calling for the return of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, but experts warn it will not be easy to track them down.

Michelle Obama uses presidential radio address to express outrage at the abduction of at least 200 girls by militant Islamists Boko Haram in Nigeria last month.

A local trader who survived an attack this week by Boko Haram insurgents on a remote town in Nigeria, in which more than 300 may have died, tells Channel 4 News it was followed by mass burials.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan says a group of kidnapped schoolgirls will be found, and their rescue will be a turning point in his country’s battle against the terrorist group Boko Haram.

Bob Geldof tells Channel 4 News that the terror in Nigeria is spurred by poverty. “There has to be a more equitable distribution of the Nigeria’s vast wealth,” he says.

The kidnapping of 270 schoolgirls shines a global spotlight on Boko Haram’s brutal campaign in Nigeria a four-year rampage of murder, kidnap and attacks on schools.

The #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign has reached more than a million tweets – as people across the world wear red to show solidarity with more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls.

David Cameron says the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls in Nigeria three weeks ago was an “act of pure evil”, as the Nigerian police offer a $300,000 reward for information leading to their rescue.

A 12-hour long attack on a town in the north east of Nigeria leaves at least 300 dead after gunmen suspected of being Boko Haram terrorists opened fire in a market before attacking local homes.

Nigerian politician Yusuf Tuggar tells Channel 4 News Nigeria is not a failed state, but large swathes of the country are “ungoverned”.

Nigeria’s finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala speaks to Channel 4 News live from Abuja as her government tries to find and rescue more than 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram.