NIGERIA

The sales of stolen animals at four major cattle markets in the northeast were allegedly helping to finance the militant group’s brutal insurgency.

Heavily armed kidnappers allegedly snatched three teenage girls Monday night from Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School in Lagos.

A senior military officer said the emaciated-looking detainees are now being held at Nigeria’s military headquarters in Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram.

The new group, dubbed the Peoples Mega Party, held its first meeting in the Nigerian capital of Abuja on Tuesday.

An audit ordered by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari revealed nearly 24,000 employees on the government’s payroll did not exist.

A plan to escalate the battle against the terror group emerged from an assessment by the top U.S. Special Operations commander for Africa.

The bombs, which had been seized from militant group Boko Haram, detonated accidentally and were not planted, police said.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said unauthorized revisions had completely changed the 2016 national budget from the document he proposed.

With more than 65 percent of the poll results released Thursday, a run-off vote seems possible.

Despite the recent discussion of a crude production freeze, oil prices remain at very low levels around the world.

Tensions are rising amid a failed military coup, a slew of contentious arrests and one presidential challenger running his campaign from behind bars.

Friday's bombing was the latest in a series of deadly attacks in the northern part of the country.

Nigerian army spokesman Col. Sani Usman said troops ambushed Boko Haram militants Wednesday night as they emerged from their hideouts in Sambisa forest.

There is currently a strong demand for dollars and foreign exchange from importers amid diminishing liquidity as the global price of oil, Nigeria’s top source of revenue, plummet to all-time lows.

OPEC may change its stance on production caps, but industry experts say it might not be enough to end the oil glut around the world.

Japan GDP fell more than expected in the fourth quarter. Most Asian stock markets rose in early Monday trading.

The cartel may be getting close to a consensus on how to halt the long slide in crude oil prices, Nigeria’s oil minister says.

The French energy giant Total will soon receive its first delivery of 2 million barrels of oil as a result of the lifting of sanctions on Iran.

With Nigeria-based Boko Haram militants posing a threat in West Africa, concerns have risen about terrorists using full-body veils to hide bombs.

As soldiers assemble in Senegal for U.S.-led counterterrorism training, experts say several factors would prevent complete unity among ISIS and al Qaeda-affiliated groups in North Africa and the Sahel region.

It's been almost a year since Boko Haram's leader was last seen, and the lack of intelligence on his whereabouts is deemed by some to be a military failure.