Sources: CNN
Six soldiers and 34 Boko Haram gunmen are killed during a shootout in Borno State, Nigeria. 2025-01-5
At least 25 people are killed when Boko Haram gunmen storm a fishing village in Dikwa, Borno, Nigeria. 2023-03-9
Hundreds of women protest in the Nigerian capital of Abuja after the National Assembly rejected a series of amendments to the Constitution that would have expanded women's rights and autonomy. The proposed amendments included reserving 35% of all legislative seats and political party leadership positions for women, conferred citizenship to foreign husbands of Nigerian women, and allowing women to inherit the ancestry of their husband after five years of marriage. 2022-03-2
The number of people found dead following a boat accident in Kebbi State, Nigeria, three days ago, increases to 76. Many more people are still missing. 2021-05-29
Three people are shot after armed forces open fire at a reunion of students, kidnapped in Zamfara a week ago, and their parents in Jangebe, Nigeria, while the parents protest the kidnapping. 2021-03-3
Over 100 people are killed in floods after Nigeria's two major rivers burst their banks. 2018-09-17
Nigeria’s information and culture minister says the government has recovered $9.1 billion in money and assets stolen from the oil sector. 2016-06-4
Islamist terror group Boko Haram abduct two prominent traditional rulers from Borno State in Nigeria. 2014-05-30
28 people are killed in a series of explosions targeting bars in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. 2013-07-30
Nigeria intercepts a weapons shipment including artillery rockets, originating in Iran, after Israeli officials accused Iran of trying to smuggle the weapons into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. 2010-10-31