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Soldiers open fire against protesters for about an hour and a half during protests against police brutality in Lagos, Nigeria, killing about 20 people and wounding at least 50 others. It is reported that the soldiers had built a barricade and ambulances could not reach the protest area.
2020-10-20

A pipeline explosion causes a fire and destroys dozens of buildings in Lagos, Nigeria, killing at least 15 people.
2020-03-15

Nigerian spy chief Ayo Oke has been suspended by President Muhammadu Buhari after anti-corruption agents uncovered more than $43 million in cash at his flat in Lagos.
2017-04-19

A passenger plane carrying 27 people crashes at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, with 13 deaths reported.
2013-10-3

An ocean surge into nearby shanties kills one person and leaves 15 others missing off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria.
2012-08-20

Senegal recalls its ambassador to Iran, saying that Iran had not provided an adequate explanation for an arms shipment seized in Nigeria.
2010-12-15

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

Nearly 700 people from a small town within Lagos, Nigeria, are relocated following heavy flooding.
2010-10-12

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