ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria charged seven men with terrorist acts on Thursday, accusing them of killing four people in raids on banks and a police station as part of an Islamist insurgency in the north of the country, police said.
Islamist group Boko Haram has killed hundreds in Nigeria's mostly Muslim north in the last three years in its effort to carve out an Islamic state in the religiously mixed country of 160 million. The group and its offshoots are the biggest threat to the stability of Africa's biggest oil producer.
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