Five explosions at a bus park in northern Nigeria's main city of Kano killed at least 25 people on Monday in an area where Islamist sect Boko Haram is waging an insurgency against the government, a Reuters reporter who counted the bodies said.
The blasts destroyed several buses in the Sabon Gari (...)
Nigeria's military says one person was killed as soldiers raided a suspected hideout of members of a radical Islamist sect.
Brig. Gen. Iliyasu I. Abba told journalists on Tuesday the raid happened in the city of Kano that morning. Abba said soldiers also arrested three women and two children in (...)
Nigerian security forces killed nine Islamist Boko Haram militants and captured two in a shootout in northern Kano state and seized a cache of stolen police weapons, an army general said on Wednesday.
Brigadier General Ilyasu Abba showed the two captured suspects and bodies of the dead to local (...)
We want to have dinner
Yoyo wa miratuh Carmella kano fi beithoon bellail. Homa kano gaaneen awey. Homa beiffakaro yakloo eih alla el-asha.
Yoyo and his wife Carmella were at home in the evening.
They were hungry. They were thinking of what to eat for dinner
Yoyo: Tehbi taakli eih alla elasha, (...)
Ahli have no alternative but to field Mohamed Abou-Treika despite his fitness problems, assistant coach Hossam Al-Badri said.
The classy playmaker has yet to regain top form since recovering from an ankle injury last month.
A succession of injuries blighted his displays throughout the season (...)
The CAF Champions League witnessed another surprise as ASEC Mimosas were eliminated from the round of 16 by Monomotapa United, who won the second leg 2-0 at home on Sunday.
The Zimbabwean side qualified for the group stage with a 2-1 aggregate win, although ASEC were widely expected to go (...)
Ahli skipper Shadi Mohamed has taken part in his team's training session on Tuesday after recovering from a groin injury, the club's official website confirmed.
The injury kept the defender out of the game for over two weeks, in which Ahli faced Kano Pillars in the CAF Champions League and (...)
Ahli midfielder Mohamed Barakat took part in his team's training after recovering from a hamstring injury that kept him out of the team for two weeks.
The Egyptian international missed the Ghazl Mahalla, Kano Pillars and Zamalek games, but now he may well feature against ENPPI on (...)
Ahli midfielder Ahmed Hassan took part in the team's Monday training after recovering from an ankle injury that kept him out of the Kano Pillars first-leg.
The Egyptian international joined his teammates in a light training on Monday following their arrival from the CAF Champions League clash (...)
Ahli held Kano Pillars to a tame 1-1 draw in the first leg of the CAF Champions League round of 16 on Saturday, thanks to a superb strike by second-half substitute Hani Al-Egeizi.
Victor Namo put the Nigerian outfit in front shortly after the half-hour mark, and Al-Egeizi headed the leveler 20 (...)
African champions Ahli should be afraid when they face Kano Pillars in the CAF Champions League round of 16 on Sunday, according to official Ibrahim Galadima.
Nigerian champions Kano are fancying their chances of reaching the quarter-finals at the expense of the Egyptian giants, as Galadima (...)
Ahli assistant coach Hossam Al-Badri said experience made the difference in his side's 1-0 Champions League victory at Young Africans on Saturday.
The Red Devils eased into the competition's round of 16 after Flavio's first-half goal completed a 4-0 aggregate win over the Tanzanian side.
"The (...)
Suspected Islamist gunmen on motorbikes stormed a primary school in Nigeria's main northern city of Kano on Tuesday and opened fire on teachers, wounding four of them, police said.
The attackers made teachers at Dan Maliki Primary School lie on the ground before shots rang out, a witness told (...)
Suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect killed the attorney general of Nigeria's northeast state Borno overnight, the state's justice ministry said on Tuesday, a day after the sect's spokesman was reportedly killed in a shootout.
Boko Haram, which models itself on the Afghan Taliban, is (...)
A suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into a church in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least 12 people, witnesses said.
Security forces at a road block nearby said the bomber forced his car through the checkpoint and drove into the church in Yalwa, on the outskirts of the city of (...)
A Nigeria official says a German engineer kidnapped in the northern city of Kano about five months ago has been killed in a failed rescue attempt.
The security official, who requested anonymity because authorities have not yet made an official announcement, said that the botched operation to (...)
KANO - Nigerian forces raided the hideout of Islamist militants in Kano on Tuesday, killing the suspected mastermind of an attack on Christian worshippers, in a gun battle that lasted several hours in the main northern city.
The raid followed a spate of attacks in the past days, believed to be by (...)
Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram killed four people in an attack on a Sunday church service in the northeast town of Maiduguri, police said on Monday, adding to the death toll from a separate shooting in the country's second largest city Kano.
Gunmen killed at least 15 people and wounded many (...)
Dead bodies littered a road in northern Nigeria on Sunday after a massive explosion that an official said killed 25 people and a witness said shattered windows of a nearby church where worshipers were celebrating Easter.
Abubakar Zakari, a spokesman for Nigeria's State Emergency Management Agency, (...)
Four killed in gun battle in Nigeria, part of a hunt for Boko Haram militant group members, in a conflict that has been ongoing for approximately two years between the group and the Nigerian government
Nigerian forces swept through the remote northeast on Wednesday, searching houses for suspected (...)
Authorities say two police officers were killed and two others wounded in an attack in a northern Nigeria city.
The attack happened Thursday morning in Kano, a city of 9 million in Nigeria's Muslim north. Police said in a statement that gunmen riding on motorcycles shot at a group of officers (...)
Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect attacked a police station in this north Nigeria city where its coordinated assaults last week killed at least 185 people. Youths overran the bombed station Wednesday and blood and investigative files covered the floor.
Gunmen likely from the sect (...)
Attacks by a Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram have killed at least 935 people since the sect launched a violent campaign in 2009, including 250 this year alone, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
"More than 935 people have been killed in some 164 suspected attacks" since Boko Haram launched (...)
KANO: The emir of Kano and the state's top politician offered prayers Monday for the more than 150 people killed in a coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect, though fear kept many Nigerians from coming to the mosque.
Emir Ado Bayero, 81, whispered to God through a microphone at a mosque (...)
Police spokesman Olusola Amore told The Associated Press that detectives found Michael Obi on Monday in the northern city of Kano. Amore said police arrested those suspected in the kidnapping.
Michael Obi was kidnapped on Aug. 12 while on his way home from work in the central Nigerian city of (...)