Sources: BBC
Thirty-five children are killed and six others are injured in a crowd crush during a Christmas funfair in Ibadan, Nigeria. 2024-12-18
Multiple people are killed and 10 others are abducted after gunmen storm a hospital in Niger State, Nigeria. 2022-10-18
The death toll from the ongoing floods across Nigeria, which started in early summer, increases to more than 600. 2022-10-17
Twenty people are killed and at least one other is injured when a minibus collides with a vehicle in Bauchi State, Nigeria. 2022-04-20
Nigerian Information Minister Lai Mohammed announces that the government is indefinitely suspending Twitter's operations in the country, saying that the social media service is being used for "activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence". The move comes two days after President Muhammadu Buhari was temporarily suspended from Twitter for posting an inflammatory tweet directed at groups believed to be responsible for attacking government buildings in recent weeks. 2021-06-4
21 people are killed after a boat capsizes in Nigeria's northwestern state of Sokoto. 2018-08-3
Cattle thieves are reported to have killed 23 people in Zamfara, Nigeria. 2018-06-3
Cameroon’s army, backed by a regional taskforce, has killed at least 100 members of the militant Islamist Boko Haram group and freed 900 people it had held hostage, the west African country’s defence ministry has said. Regional taskforce conducts sweep along border with Nigeria. 2015-12-2
A court in South Africa sentences Nigerian militant Henry Okah to 24 years' imprisonment for his involvement in the Abuja car bombings which killed at least 12 people in October 2010. 2013-03-26
17 Nigerian police officers are arrested in connection with the deaths of Boko Haram members in 2009. 2010-03-1