Sources: BBC
The death toll from heavy flooding that submerged the market town of Mokwa in Niger State, Nigeria, on Wednesday, rises to at least 117. Thousands of homes have been destroyed and a nearby dam collapsed. 2025-05-30
Twenty-eight people are dead after a boat capsizes in Sokoto State, Nigeria. 2022-04-13
A bomb explodes at a market place in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri killing at least four people. 2015-05-31
A mystery disease that kills patients within 24 hours has killed at least 18 people within the past week in the Nigerian town of Ode-Irele in Ondo State. 2015-04-18
The Chad Army claims to have killed 200 militants and lost nine soldiers in fighting in northern Nigeria. 2015-02-4
Boko Haram kill at least 45 in a reprisal attack on a village in northeastern Nigeria. 2014-11-19
Two bombs explode in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri with the Boko Haram movement believed to be responsible. 2012-01-4
At least 5 people are killed and at least 10 others are wounded in a bomb attack on a bar in Maiduguri, Nigeria. It follows a bomb that killed 25 people this day last week. 2011-07-3
Officials from multinational corporations Royal Dutch Shell and Halliburton are to be questioned in Nigeria in relation to bribery scandals and corruption. 2010-11-30
President Goodluck Jonathan nominates Namadi Sambo to serve as Nigeria's vice president. 2010-05-13