Sources: Al Jazeera BBC
Canada ends a travel ban on many African nations, including Nigeria and South Africa. 2021-12-17
Nigerian Shia Islamic Movement leader, Ibrahim Zakzaky, who is detained at an unknown location without charges since December 2015, makes a short public appearance, his first in two years, being allowed to see his doctor. 2018-01-13
Residents of northeast Nigeria claim that Boko Haram has killed at least 43 people and burnt down three villages in recent attacks. 2015-06-11
The death toll from a collapse of T. B. Joshua's The Synagogue Church of All Nations on Friday in the Ikotun area of the Nigerian largest city Lagos reaches 40. 2014-09-14
Men on motorbikes storm a primary school in Nigeria and open fire wounding four teachers. 2013-03-13
The Nigerian insurgent group Boko Haram attacks a prison in Kogi State freeing 119 inmates. 2012-02-16
The death toll of a series of co-ordinated bombing attacks in Kano, Nigeria, rises to more than 140. The attacks, which targeted police stations across the city, are attributed to Islamist group Boko Haram. 2012-01-21
Suspected Boko Haram members attack a church in northern Nigeria during Christmas Eve services. 2010-12-24
Community leaders in Plateau State, Nigeria, appeal for calm following attacks by Muslim Hausa–Fulani against a Christian village near the city of Jos. 2010-10-30
Amnesty International condemns Sunday's execution, in Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya, of 18 people, some of whom were from Chad, Egypt and Nigeria. 2010-06-2