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At least nine people are killed when a container falls from a truck onto a commercial bus in Lagos, Nigeria.
2023-01-29

The death toll from the ongoing floods across Nigeria, which started in early summer, increases to more than 600.
2022-10-17

Seventeen people are dead after a boat carried into a barge by the tide and capsize in Lagos, Nigeria.
2022-07-8

The death toll from the collapse of a high-rise building under construction in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, increases to 22, as the search-and-rescue operations enter their third day.
2021-11-3

Dozens of protesters in the Nigerian cities of Lagos and Abuja are arrested or injured after police fired tear gas at the crowds. The protests, coinciding with a public holiday marking Nigeria's transition to democracy, were organized to protest President Muhammadu Buhari's Twitter ban and numerous other issues plaguing his administration, with protestors calling for his resignation.
2021-06-12

A building in Lagos, Nigeria, collapses, killing ten people and leaving more than 100 others trapped under the rubble.
2019-03-13

A court in Nigeria charges an Iranian man over an illegal weapons shipment discovered in Lagos.
2010-11-25

Nigeria is to question an Iranian citizen over a shipment of arms seized in Lagos, warning that it could report Iran to the United Nations Security Council if sanctions had been breached.
2010-11-12

Erastus Akingbola, former head of the Intercontinental Bank of Nigeria, is charged with 22 counts of involvement in the bank's near collapse at a court in Lagos; he denies all counts.
2010-08-13

Nigerian gunmen take two German men, from Port Harcourt and Lagos, in Abia State.
2010-04-18