Sources: Al Jazeera BBC
The Nigerian State Security department arrests Joe Ajaero, the leader of the Nigeria Labour Congress, at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria, days after Ajaero criticised the Nigerian government for increasing gas prices. 2024-09-9
Bandits attack Nigerian forces at a military base in Nahuta, Katsina State, Nigeria. 2024-01-15
Sri Lanka reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in an unvaccinated woman who travelled from Nigeria. 2021-12-3
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
Bello Matawalle, the Governor of Zamfara State, Nigeria, announces that 68 children who were abducted two weeks ago have been rescued by Nigerian forces and reunited with their families. 2021-09-13
The Nigerian Army announces a cyber warfare operation as protests against police brutality in the country continue. 2020-10-17
ISWAP kills over 20 soldiers and 40 civilians in attacks in Monguno and Nganzai in Borno, Nigeria – four days after they killed 82 civilians in Gubio. 2020-06-13
Boko Haram releases most of the 110 Nigerian schoolgirls it had kidnapped in February 2018, and warns against sending them back to school. 2018-03-21
Seven French tourists are kidnapped by gunmen near Waza National Park in northern Cameroon, near the border with Nigeria. President of France François Hollande states that the Islamist group Boko Haram may be responsible. 2013-02-19
Multiple bombings kill at least 12 people in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna. 2012-06-17