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Nigeria's Zamfara State begins issuing firearms licenses to citizens so that they can defend themselves from bandit gangs.
2022-06-26

Bandits bomb and open fire at a train in Kaduna State carrying 970 passengers travelling from Abuja to Kaduna, Nigeria, killing 7 people and wounding 22 more. Some others are kidnapped.
2022-03-28

South Korea reports its first five cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a fully vaccinated couple who travelled from Nigeria and later tested positive, along with two of their family members and a friend.
2021-12-1

Twenty Boko Haram militants and three Nigerian Army soldiers are killed during a gunfight as the military has tried to recapture the Nigerian town of Maiduguri.
2021-10-16

Nigerian Chief of Staff to the President Abba Kyari dies from COVID-19 in Lagos. Kyari is the highest profile person to die from the virus in Nigeria so far. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reports 493 total cases and 17 deaths from COVID-19.
2020-04-17

The death toll of an accidental explosion in Aba, Nigeria, rises to 200. Over 2,000 people protest, claiming that the pipeline explosion was caused by NNPC's negligence.
2018-10-16

Over 100 people are killed in floods after Nigeria's two major rivers burst their banks.
2018-09-17

Nigerian police free 15 schoolchildren kidnapped by an armed gang.
2010-10-1

Erastus Akingbola, former head of the Intercontinental Bank of Nigeria, is charged with 22 counts of involvement in the bank's near collapse at a court in Lagos; he denies all counts.
2010-08-13

17 Nigerian police officers are arrested in connection with the deaths of Boko Haram members in 2009.
2010-03-1