Sources: BBC
Bandits ambush and set fire to a passenger bus in Sokoto State, Nigeria, killing 30 people. 2021-12-7
Nigeria reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a traveller following the routine travel test required of all international travellers and genomic sequencing at the NCDC National Reference Laboratory, Abuja. 2021-07-8
At least 317 girls are kidnapped by armed bandits raiding a secondary school hostel in the Nigerian state of Zamfara. 2021-02-26
Around 20 armed robbers attack a police station with guns and a bank with dynamite in Offa, Kwara State, Nigeria. The shooting kills nine and the explosion kills seven. 2018-04-5
Gambia's Chief Justice sets January 10, 2017, for the hearing by the Supreme Court, made up of judges from Nigeria and Sierra Leone, of President Yahya Jammeh's ruling party's legal challenge of the December 1 election results. 2016-12-21
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari visits neighboring Cameroon to bolster support for a multinational army to fight Boko Haram. 2015-07-29
Naomi Mutah Nyadar, the leader of the One Million Women protest in Nigeria over failure to act on the kidnapping of 203 schoolgirls by terrorist group Boko Haram, is reportedly detained on the orders of First Lady of Nigeria Patience Jonathan. 2014-05-5
18 people are killed by attackers armed with machetes in the villages of Wareng and Bardin Laki in Central Nigeria. 2011-01-11
One of Nigeria's most influential politicians, James Ibori, is arrested on corruption charges in Dubai. 2010-05-13
In Nigeria, the Governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi, is controversially re-elected. 2010-02-7