Sources: BBC
At least thirty travellers are killed and more than twenty vehicles are set ablaze in an arson and mass shooting attack by gunmen suspected to be from the Eastern Security Network along the Okigwe-Owerri highway in Southeastern Nigeria, Nigeria. 2025-05-8
At least forty people drown and 24 more are presumed dead after a wooden boat carrying farmers capsizes near Gummi, Zamfara State, Nigeria. 2024-09-14
Forty people are killed by an airstrike against Fulani people in Rukubi, Nasarawa State, Nigeria. The massacre is blamed on the army. 2023-01-25
Heavy flooding in Nigeria kills 44 people and 20 others are missing. 2018-07-16
Two suicide bombings at mosques kill at least 33 people in the northeast Nigerian cities of Yola and Maiduguri. 2015-10-23
Over 100 people die in several bomb attacks in Nigeria. [http:--www.vanguardngr.com-2014-03-boko-haram-bombs-maiduguri-100-feared-dead- ("Vanguard" (Nigeria))]2014-03-2
Suspected Islamist fighters go on the rampage in Chibok, Nigeria, killing 10 Christians with guns and machetes and burning down their houses. 2012-12-2
Sectarian violence in northern Nigeria kills at least 16 people. 2011-05-7
1986 Nobel Laureate for Literature Wole Soyinka, the first African to receive the award, launches a political party ahead of Nigeria's upcoming presidential election. 2010-09-25
More than 50 doctors in Edo State, Nigeria go on strike after a colleague is kidnapped by unidentified gunmen. 2010-04-8