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About 900 children are released from the Civilian Joint Task Force, a militia formed in Nigeria to counter Boko Haram.
2019-05-10

Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers kill at least eight people in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri.
2016-10-29

The Nigerian Army claims to have rescued more than 800 hostages from Boko Haram while performing a "clearance operation" in the Northeastern part of Nigeria with fighting killing 22 insurgents.
2016-03-25

According to a civilian vigilante, 20 people are killed after Boko Haram militants open fire on cars outside a village in Nigeria's restive northeast Borno state.
2015-10-21

Triple explosions kill at least 80 people and injure 150 in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri.
2015-09-20

Nigerian voters elect Muhammadu Buhari (who previously ruled as a military dictator in 1983-1985) of the All Progressives Congress as the next President of Nigeria.
2015-03-31

A suicide bomber kills seven and wounds 30 in Nigerian city of Damaturu.
2015-02-15

Villagers in the Nigerian Kala-Balge district of Borno State form a vigilante group and successfully repel an attack from the terrorist Islamist group Boko Haram, seizing three cars and a military vehicle and killing around 200 of the militants.
2014-05-13

10 people are killed in an attack on a church and a local market in Njilan, Adamawa State, Nigeria.
2013-05-5

Nigeria's acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, is sworn in as President of Nigeria following the death of Umaru Yar'Adua.
2010-05-6