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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

Nigeria receives four million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from U.S. government.
2021-08-1

Three of the students kidnapped from Greenfield University in Kaduna, Nigeria, on Tuesday are found shot dead.
2021-04-23

A group of gunmen kidnap students from Greenfield University in Kaduna, Nigeria.
2021-04-20

A fuel tanker explodes on a highway in Kogi State, Nigeria, destroying several nearby vehicles and killing at least 25 people. The victims include a number of Kogi State Polytechnic students whose school bus was destroyed in the blast.
2020-09-23

Police in Kaduna, Nigeria, raid an Islamic learning centre, and free around 500 men and male children held captive there. The freed detainees allege torture, slavery, and sexual abuse, and some display evidence of injury and malnutrition. Two children self-identify as being from Burkina Faso, with the remaining captives thought by police to be mostly Nigerian. Eight suspects are arrested.
2019-09-27

Kaduna State governor Nasir el-Rufai reports the death toll from Friday's attack in Kajuru is now more than 130, most from the Fulani ethnic group. Nigerian authorities have not identified the gunmen's motive, but they do not believe the attack was related to the upcoming election.
2019-02-19

Two explosions rip through the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna killing at least 82 people.
2014-07-23

Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, the Governor of Nigeria's Kaduna state dies in a helicopter crash in Bayelsa state, together with former national security adviser General Owoye Andrew Azazi and other senior officials.
2012-12-15

A car bomb explodes in the Nigerian city of Kaduna killing dozens of people.
2012-04-8