Sources: CNN
Eighteen people are killed and ten more injured in a gasoline tank truck explosion along an expressway in Enugu State, Nigeria. 2025-01-25
Sixteen people are killed when a pipeline explodes in Emohua, Rivers State, Nigeria. 2023-03-3
Seven soldiers are killed and two others are missing after gunmen ambush them in Taraba State, Nigeria. 2022-05-11
Soldiers open fire against protesters for about an hour and a half during protests against police brutality in Lagos, Nigeria, killing about 20 people and wounding at least 50 others. It is reported that the soldiers had built a barricade and ambulances could not reach the protest area. 2020-10-20
Around 20 armed robbers attack a police station with guns and a bank with dynamite in Offa, Kwara State, Nigeria. The shooting kills nine and the explosion kills seven. 2018-04-5
At least 30 people are killed after a five-story building still under construction collapses in Lagos, Nigeria. 2016-03-9
At least 30 people are dead in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri following an attack on the markets by suspected Islamist militants. 2012-02-20
11 Islamist militants are killed in a shootout in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri. 2012-01-28
Riot police are deployed to the streets of Jos in central Nigeria following clashes between ethnic groups and a bombing on Christmas Eve. 2010-12-27
Former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar is chosen to challenge incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan for the ruling People's Democratic Party nomination in next year's presidential election. 2010-11-22