Nigeria officially launches a vaccination campaign against COVID-19, with a doctor who has spent the past year treating COVID-19 patients becoming the first person to be vaccinated. 2021-03-5
Boko Haram jihadists storm Pemi, a Christian village in Borno State, Nigeria, shooting people and burning down a church and a hospital, killing at least 11 civilians. A priest is kidnapped. 2020-12-24
Cattle thieves are reported to have killed 23 people in Zamfara, Nigeria. 2018-06-3
A twin-suicide bombing of a mobile phone market in the northern Nigerian city of Kano kills at least fifteen people. 2015-11-18
A bomb blast in Nigeria's Gombe State kills at least 4 people and injures 32. 2014-10-31
Naomi Mutah Nyadar, the leader of the One Million Women protest in Nigeria over failure to act on the kidnapping of 203 schoolgirls by terrorist group Boko Haram, is reportedly detained on the orders of First Lady of Nigeria Patience Jonathan. 2014-05-5
Suspected members of Boko Haram attack a church in northeastern Nigeria, killing six people. 2012-12-25
At least four people, including Modu Fannami Gubio, a former opposition All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) candidate for governor in Borno, Nigeria, are shot dead in Maiduguri. 2011-01-28
Nigeria charges with murder 49 of the 200 people it has arrested so far following the recent massacre of civilians near Jos. 2010-03-10
Nigerian soldiers open fire on a crowd after curfew in Jos, killing two people, days after Muslim-Christian riots in the area left more than 200 dead including dozens of children 2010-03-10