Sources: CNN
Nigeria arrests seven Polish nationals for raising Russian flags during anti-government protests this week. 2024-08-7
Four soldiers and two civilian drivers are killed and two South Korean workers are kidnapped in an ambush against a convoy in Rivers State, Nigeria. 2023-12-13
At least 200 people were killed by a bandit group from January 4 to 6 in Zamfara State in northwestern Nigeria. 2022-01-8
One Catholic priest is killed and another kidnapped in an armed attack on the parish in Malunfashi, Sokoto State, in northern Nigeria. Several other people are wounded in the assault. 2021-05-21
Nigeria bans international humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger for allegedly providing food and medicine for Boko Haram militants in the north-east of the country. Action Against Hunger denies the Nigerian military's accusations. 2019-09-20
At least 36 people are dead after two buses crash on the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway in Nigeria. 2017-05-6
Up to 100 people die in an explosion at an LPG gas plant in Nnewi, Anambra, in southern Nigeria. Sources indicate the accident was caused by a truck discharging its contents before the mandatory cooling time had expired. 2015-12-24
Islamic extremists kill 42 people, mainly students, in an attack on the Government Secondary School boarding school in the Nigerian town of Mamudo in Yobe state. 2013-07-6
Nigeria agrees to drop corruption charges against Dick Cheney and Halliburton in exchange for a $250 million settlement. 2010-12-18
1986 Nobel Laureate for Literature Wole Soyinka, the first African to receive the award, launches a political party ahead of Nigeria's upcoming presidential election. 2010-09-25