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At least 42 women, residents of an IDP camp, are abducted by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram in Jere, Borno State, Nigeria.
2023-08-23

Bandits attack villages in the Bakura and Talata Mafura local government areas of Nigeria. Many people are killed.
2022-03-29

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

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

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

Boko Haram captures the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak, killing 50 and forcing more than 3,000 to flee across the border into Niger.
2014-11-24

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