(Reuters) - Nigeria's president said on Thursday he had ordered "a full-scale operation" against Boko Haram Islamist militants and sought to reassure the parents of 219 schoolgirls being held by the group that their children would be freed. Speaking on Nigeria's Democracy Day, Goodluck Jonathan said he had authorized security forces to use any means ...

[caption id="attachment_96094" align="alignright" width="221"] Nigerian girls in the northern city of Maiduguri stand amid the rubble of their school, which was destroyed by Boko Haram. Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty[/caption] The Nigerian government has confirmed that a military operation has been launched with international backing to locate ...

(Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday he believed 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants last month in an attack that has stirred global outrage are still in his country and have not been moved to neighboring Cameroon. As condemnation of the abductions spread, Saudi Arabia's grand mufti, the top religious authority ...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has pledged to secure the release of over 200 schoolgirls recently abducted by gunmen amid mounting criticism of Abujas handling of the issue. We promise that anywhere the girls are, we will surely get them out, Jonathan told Nigerian media on Sunday, adding, This is a trying time for this country... it is painful....

Amnesty International has called for an immediate probe into the deaths of hundreds of prisoners in Nigerian detention facilities during a clampdown on anti-government fighters. The international rights group announced on Monday that it had evidence, showing that numerous prisoners had been suffocated, starved and subjected to extra-judicial killings ...