Sources: CNN
Eight people are killed after people siphoning fuel from a tanker that was involved in an accident explodes in Ondo State, Nigeria. 2023-07-23
At least seven police officers are killed in a shooting spree in Rivers State, Nigeria. 2021-05-7
A fuel tanker explodes on a highway in Kogi State, Nigeria, destroying several nearby vehicles and killing at least 25 people. The victims include a number of Kogi State Polytechnic students whose school bus was destroyed in the blast. 2020-09-23
A teenage girl suicide bomber kills five people and injures fourteen others in the Damaturu area in northeast Nigeria. 2015-08-25
Toll of Boko Haram massacre in northeastern Nigeria rises to nearly 170.2015-07-3
Nigerian writer and literary icon Chinua Achebe dies at the age of 82. 2013-03-21
An explosion at an army barrack in northern Nigeria kills 12 people. 2011-05-30
Nigeria's ruling People's Democratic Party nominates incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan as its candidate for April presidential elections. 2011-01-14
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
Saboteurs attack an oil pipeline in Nigeria's Niger Delta, shutting in 4,000 barrels a day of crude oil production. 2010-10-29