Nigeria will deploy troops to Guinea Bissau by May 18, Defence Minister Bello Haliru Mohammed said Monday at the opening of a meeting of military officials from the West African regional bloc ECOWAS in Abuja.
Gunmen with explosives killed at least 34 people in the northeastern Nigerian city of Potiskum in an attack on a cattle market Wednesday. Police said one of the perpetrators was doused in petrol and burned to death.
Gunmen killed at least 15 people in the restive Nigerian city of Kano on Sunday at a university theatre used by students for church services, a security source said.
At least eight people were killed Thursday in a suicide bombing at the offices of "This Day" newspaper in the Nigerian capital Abuja and another blast at the paper's offices in Kaduna.
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".
Italy condemned the British government Friday for failing to warn it ahead of a botched rescue attempt in northern Nigeria which saw British hostage Chris McManus and his Italian colleague Francesco Molinara killed by their captors.
Prime Minister Mario Monti held security talks Friday amid rising anger over the UK's failure to notify Italy ahead of a failed British-Nigerian mission to rescue an Italian and a Briton being held in Nigeria. Both hostages died in the attempt.
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