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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

The death toll of a cholera outbreak in Yobe and Borno, Nigeria, rises to 97.
2018-09-22

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

12 Nigerian policemen are missing and presumed dead after their boat was ambushed by militants in the Niger Delta region.
2013-04-7

A Dutch court rules that Royal Dutch Shell can be held partially responsible for pollution in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria.
2013-01-30

Gunmen attack an oil barge off the Niger Delta in Nigeria, killing two navy sailors and kidnapping four foreigners.
2012-08-4

Nigerian soldiers raid suspected militant camps in the Niger Delta in a new offensive.
2011-05-12

An armed group kidnaps at least two Americans, two Frenchmen and a Canadian from a Transocean oil rig in the Okoro Oilfield off the coast of Niger Delta, Nigeria, injuring two others.
2010-11-8

To persuade its volatile – and poor -- Niger Delta's oil region to reduce the conflict in the Niger Delta, Nigeria proposes handing over 10% stakes in its biggest energy industry to “host communities”.
2010-02-19

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), a militant group in the Niger delta region of Nigeria, announces the end of its unilateral ceasefire.
2010-01-31