Sources: BBC
Twenty-five people are killed when a truck carrying over 200 people and food items crashes in Magama district, Nigeria. 2023-11-21
Gunmen kill 60 to 74 people in villages in the Nigerian state of Sokoto, where similar attacks had occurred on Monday. 2020-05-28
Boko Haram kills 70 troops in an ambush in Borno, northeastern Nigeria. 2020-03-23
28 people are killed in a series of explosions targeting bars in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. 2013-07-30
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
Widespread flooding in Nigeria since July is reported to have killed 363 people and displaced 2.1 million people. 2012-11-5
Further violence breaks out in the Nigerian city of Jos following bombings earlier this week. 2010-12-26
A court in Nigeria charges an Iranian man over an illegal weapons shipment discovered in Lagos. 2010-11-25
The Nigerian military exhumes seven fresh corpses from shallow graves near Jos in the latest round of apparent revenge killings. 2010-04-21