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WATCH: As Supreme Court weighs travel ban case, Trump says he won’t apologize for immigration rhetoric

The president said Monday at the news conference with Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari that he had nothing for which to apologize.

Photos: More than 100 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls return home

By Larisa Epatko

"They kept us in a big, covered house where no-one could spot where we were, even by air we could not be seen," one of the girls said.

Boko Haram returns Nigerian kidnapped schoolgirls, witnesses say

By Haruna Umar and Ismail Alfa Abdulrahim, Associated Press

Boko Haram extremists returned almost all of the 110 girls abducted from their Nigeria boarding school a month ago with an ominous warning, witnesses said Wednesday.

News Wrap: Suicide bomber blasts Nigerian mosque

By PBS News Hour

In our news wrap Tuesday, at least 50 are dead after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque in Nigeria. Also, the U.S. military said it killed more than 100 al-Shabab militants in a recent airstrike in Somalia…

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Inside Nollywood, the booming film industry that makes 1,500 movies a year

By Elizabeth Flock

Nollywood is now the world’s second largest film industry in terms of number of films produced. Here's how it happened.

Boko Haram has used 83 children as human bombs so far this year

By Synclaire Cruel

The radical militant group Boko Haram has already used four times as many child suicide bombers in northeast Nigeria this year than it did in 2016, the United Nations Children’s Fund reported Tuesday.

Dozens of Nigerian school girls freed by Boko Haram

By Michael D. Regan

Dozens of Nigerian school girls who were released by Boko Haram this weekend years after they were kidnapped met with the country's president on Sunday.

5 important stories that aren’t getting much attention this week

By Joshua Barajas, Erica R. Hendry

During Week One of Donald Trump's presidency, there was a dizzying array of executive actions. Here are some stories you might've missed.

Nigerian church collapses on worshippers, killing 160 people

By Kamala Kelkar

Mortuaries in the southern Nigerian city of Uyo were overflowing on Sunday as rescuers pulled bodies of more than 160 people from the debris of a church that collapsed during a service on Saturday.

Women fleeing Boko Haram abused by forces meant to protect them, report finds

By Alison Thoet

The Nigerian president has ordered police and state leaders to investigate claims that government officials and soldiers raped and assaulted refugees fleeing the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.