Sources: CNN
Unidentified gunmen kill at least twelve forest security guards in Oke-Ode, Kwara State, Nigeria. 2025-09-29
Protests against President Bola Tinubu's economic reforms continue across Nigeria, as security forces fire tear gas at protestors and the government orders curfews across several northern states. 2024-08-2
Fourteen people are rescued from kidnappers by Nigerian forces and local vigilante groups in Katsina State, Nigeria. 2024-03-22
Four people are killed and twelve others are injured by a bombing in Anambra State, Nigeria. 2022-11-8
More than 70 Islamic State – West Africa Province militants are killed during airstrikes by Niger and Nigeria at the border between the two countries. 2022-04-17
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
The African Land Forces Summit opens in Abuja, Nigeria. Present are military delegations from 30 African nations plus representatives from Europe and the United States. 2018-05-1
At least 36 people are dead after two buses crash on the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway in Nigeria. 2017-05-6
Islamist terror group Boko Haram abduct two prominent traditional rulers from Borno State in Nigeria. 2014-05-30
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