Kano

KANO, Nigeria - Gunmen kidnapped 15 school children on their way to class at a private school near Nigeria's oil-rich and restive southern delta, a police spokesman said Tuesday.

KANO, Nigeria - Police say the son of a high-ranking official with Nigeria's secret police killed his father and three family members during a knife attack.

KANO, Nigeria - Two high-ranking officials with Nigeria's secret police and its anti-graft agency have been killed by unknown attackers.

BAUCHI, Nigeria - A radical Muslim sect used assault rifles to launch a coordinated sunset raid on a prison in northern Nigeria, freeing more than 100 followers and raising new fears about violence in the oil-rich nation just months before elections.