Sources: CNN
Eight people are killed when a NNPC Limited Sikorsky S-76C+ helicopter crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Bonny Island, Rivers State, Nigeria. 2024-10-24
Nigeria reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a traveller following the routine travel test required of all international travellers and genomic sequencing at the NCDC National Reference Laboratory, Abuja. 2021-07-8
Bandits abduct around 150 students, a parent and the administrator of a boarding school in Chikun, Kaduna State, Nigeria. The army has rescued at least 26 people. 2021-07-5
Boko Haram releases most of the 110 Nigerian schoolgirls it had kidnapped in February 2018, and warns against sending them back to school. 2018-03-21
A Boko Haram attack last week on a northeastern Nigerian village, Yadin Kukuwa killed at least 151 people. News of the attack was slow to emerge because the militants destroyed telecom masts around the village. 2015-08-19
Suspected Islamist militants kill 90 people in a Nigerian village raid near the border with Cameroon. 2014-02-16
In Nigeria six foreign workers, of which one Italian, one Greek and two Lebanese, are kidnapped in a construction site, one security guard is killed. 2013-02-17
Thirty-two people die after a head on collision between two buses in Nigeria's Bauchi State. 2012-02-16
A parliamentary election is to take place in Nigeria, but is postponed to 4 April as voting materials did not arrive on time. 2011-04-2
Nigerian police say they have foiled a bomb attack at a church in the city of Bauchi, days after deadly clashes between Christian and Muslim youths. 2011-01-31