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At least 49 people are killed and more than 40,000 people are displaced after heavy rains caused floods in Adamawa, Jigawa, and Taraba states, Nigeria.
2024-08-26

The 13-kilometre-long (8-mile) Lagos Rail Mass Transit Blue Line rapid transit system begins service in Lagos, Nigeria, after being delayed since 1983.
2023-09-4

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

The death toll from the collapse of a building three days ago in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, increases to 36.
2021-11-4

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

At least 15 people are killed and several others are trapped when a high-rise building under construction in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, collapses.
2021-11-1

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

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

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