The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reports more than 350 deaths from cholera in Nigeria this year, which is more than twice as many than in the same period last year. 2024-10-7
The Nigerian government announces that Nigeria will develop a vaccine for lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the lassa virus. 2022-07-19
At least 50 people are killed and 30 others injured when a pipeline catches fire and explodes in southeast Nigeria. 2018-10-13
Cattle thieves are reported to have killed 23 people in Zamfara, Nigeria. 2018-06-3
Unidentified gunmen break into a prison and free an estimated 200 inmates in Minna, west-central Niger State in Nigeria. 2014-12-6
A bombing at a football match in the town on Mubi in northeastern Nigeria kills at least 40 people. 2014-06-1
A mass suicide bomber kills at least two people outside a church in the Nigerian city of Jos. 2012-02-26
At least 32 people are killed in bomb blasts detonated during Christmas Eve celebrations near the city of Jos, Nigeria, while at least six people die in attacks on churches by suspected Islamists in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri.2010-12-24
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