Sources: BBC
Nigerian president Bola Tinubu declares a nationwide security emergency and orders the recruitment of 20,000 additional police officers and the deployment of specialised units in response to recent killings and kidnappings. 2025-11-26
At least ten people are killed and 25 others are injured when a fire breaks out in a high-rise office building in Lagos, Nigeria. 2025-09-18
At least nine people are killed when a container falls from a truck onto a commercial bus in Lagos, Nigeria. 2023-01-29
The Nigerian government announces that Nigeria will develop a vaccine for lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the lassa virus. 2022-07-19
Six soldiers from Niger and Nigeria are killed and 16 others are wounded during a fight with ISWAP militants in the Lake Chad region of Borno State, Nigeria. Twenty-two militants are also killed and 17 more are captured. 2021-12-31
The Governor of Osun State, Nigeria, Gboyega Oyetola, escapes an assassination attempt. As he addressed a crowd, gunmen, also carrying machetes and throwing rocks, attacked his position. According to authorities, he was unharmed, but some of his bodyguards were injured. 2020-10-18
The government of Nigeria announces that 61 people have died and 50 others have been hospitalized from a cholera outbreak in Yobe. 2018-09-21
A twin bombing near a mosque kills at least 26 people in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri. 2015-10-15
At least 30 people are dead in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri following an attack on the markets by suspected Islamist militants. 2012-02-20
Nigeriens flee across the border into Nigeria due to a food crisis in Niger. 2010-05-21