Sources: CNN
Nigerian president Bola Tinubu lifts the state of emergency in Rivers State and reinstates Governor Siminalayi Fubara and state lawmakers after six months of federal control imposed during a political crisis and oil pipeline vandalism. 2025-09-17
At least 18 people are killed and 25 more injured by an oil refinery explosion in Emohua, Rivers State, Nigeria. 2023-10-3
Insurgents destroy a village in Gubio, Borno State, Nigeria, killing 81 residents. No group has claimed responsibility for the massacre, which is believed to have been carried out by the Islamist Boko Haram terror group. 2020-06-9
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
Stephen O'Brien, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, reports that the world is experiencing its most severe humanitarian crisis since World War II, with over 20 million people suffering from severe lack of food security in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, and Northeast Nigeria. 2017-03-10
Nigeria postpones its general election for six weeks to allow its armed forces to take control of the Boko Haram-controlled parts of the country. 2015-02-7
Nigerian soldiers raid suspected militant camps in the Niger Delta in a new offensive. 2011-05-12
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
The Nigerian House of Representatives announces the creation of ten new states, five in the north and five in the south, by 2011. [http:--allafrica.com-stories-printable-201004300686.html ("AllAfrica.com")]date=August 2019 2010-04-30
Nigerian authorities relax a 24 hour curfew put in place in Jos due to recent religious violence. [http:--af.reuters.com-article-topNews-idAFJOE60K06A20100121 (Reuters Africa)] [http:--www.afriquejet.com-news-africa-news-curfew-relaxed-in-nigerian-city-after-violence-2010012142539.html (Afrique en ligne)]date=August 2019 2010-01-21