Suspected members of Nigeria's Islamist Boko Haram militants killed four people in restive Kano on Monday, a day after at least 36 people were killed when a car bomb detonated near a church in the Nigerian city of Kaduna on Easter Sunday.
Nigeria's government has been in "preliminary talks" with the Boko Haram Islamist group behind a series of attacks in recent months, security sources said Friday. The group has been blamed for violence that has left more than 1,000 dead since 2009.
Gunmen shot dead three Christians near the flashpoint Nigerian city of Jos, hours after a suicide bomb attack on a Catholic Church in the same area killed 10 people. A government spokesman said they suspected the attackers were "herdsmen".
Islamist insurgents Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a church service in Nigeria on Sunday. Three people including a toddler were killed in the blast in Jos which sparked a deadly revenge attack by Christian youths.
A car bomb targeted a church during Sunday services in the central Nigerian city of Jos, killing two people. It is the latest in a series of deadly attacks in recent months, most of them claimed by Islamist group Boko Haram.
A car bomb targeted a church during Sunday services in the central Nigerian city of Jos, killing three people. It is the latest in a series of deadly attacks in recent months, most of them claimed by Islamist group Boko Haram.
At least 12 people were killed in the northern Nigerian city of Gombe on Friday after gunmen blew up a police station in an attempted prison break. It was not clear if the attack was the work of Islamist insurgents Boko Haram or criminal gangs.
The people of Kano live in constant fear. Not a week goes by without deadly attacks on government targets. The terrorist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility - the attacks form part of its plan to institute Sharia law in northern Nigeria. Government crackdowns have only made this Muslim faction more extreme and won it more followers.
Nigeria's top military official said Thursday that the radical Islamist group Boko Haram has ties to al Qaeda. Although the group has long been suspected of such links, it was the first public confirmation by Nigeria's security chief.
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