NIGERIA

A group called “Jahba East Africa” has pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, calling him the “rightful khalifa (leader) of all Muslims.”

Hopes are high that a punishing global oversupply may be approaching a tipping point after nearly two years.

In an online statement released Tuesday, the Nigerian military urged other militants to abandon the Islamic insurgency.

“In the past 16 years, we made a lot of money without planning for the rainy day,” Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said of the opposition.

“This leak is almost confirming our worries,” said Lucas Olo Fernandes, regional coordinator for Central Africa at Transparency International.

The Nigerian security forces have been stepping up their fight against Boko Haram and its allies in the past several months.

“You should know that there is no truce, there is no negotiations,” one of the unidentified masked men reportedly said in the video.

Under President Muhammadu Buhari’s watch, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. apparently failed to remit $4.2 billion to the treasury in the second half of last year.

The mass recruitment is part of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s efforts to curb crime and address a major shortfall in the police force’s manpower.

The meeting marks a continued shift in bilateral relations that faltered under Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan.

Col. Samaila Inusa was found dead Tuesday near a village in northern Kaduna state, where he was kidnapped over the weekend by unknown abductors.

Nigerian senior army officer Col. Samaila Inusa was kidnapped from his car Saturday night in Kaduna near the state-run NNPC oil refinery junction.

Some 219 of the 270 Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram are still missing two years later.

While most attention is focused on nearly 3 million Syrian refugees in Turkey, the country also hosts hundreds of thousands of others.

The new budget is centered on an oil price benchmark of $38 per barrel and a production level of 2.2 million barrels per day, which is Nigeria’s current output.

Over the last few days, Nigerian troops have been carrying out operations in several villages in the country's northeast.

The Islamic State group might seem to be gaining ground abroad, but it’s losing its most important claim to success: its self-proclaimed state.

Analysts say there is a small group of extremists who will be motivated by the Brussels bombings to move forward with planning additional attacks.

At least one suspect was killed Monday at a converted hotel in the African nation's capital, and two were held for questioning, reports said.

Former British High Commissioner to Nigeria Andrew Pocock said the U.K. and U.S. located about 80 of the Chibok schoolgirls, but a rescue mission was deemed too risky.

The members are among 850 people arrested in the country on charges of links to Boko Haram, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group in 2015.