Sources: CNN
The death toll from the stampede at two food distribution events in Abuja and Okija, Nigeria, increases to 32. 2024-12-22
Six people are killed and at least 79 others are injured in a collision between a train and a bus transporting civil servants to work in Lagos, Nigeria. 2023-03-9
Gunmen raid multiple villages in Nigeria's Katsina State, killing at least 47 people, according to police. 2020-04-19
At least 30 people are killed in Gamboru, Borno State, in northeastern Nigeria after an improvised explosive device detonates at a market on a bridge. No group immediately took responsibility. 2020-01-6
The Nigerian Army claims to have rescued more than 800 hostages from Boko Haram while performing a "clearance operation" in the Northeastern part of Nigeria with fighting killing 22 insurgents. 2016-03-25
Nigerian voters elect Muhammadu Buhari (who previously ruled as a military dictator in 1983-1985) of the All Progressives Congress as the next President of Nigeria. 2015-03-31
Seven people are killed in Nigeria after a suicide bomber detonates a bomb in his car. The attacks took place in Abuja, at the "This Day" newspaper offices. 2012-04-26
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian man also known as the "underwear bomber", pleads guilty to attempting to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day 2009 in a trial in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. 2011-10-12
Nigeria charges with murder 49 of the 200 people it has arrested so far following the recent massacre of civilians near Jos. 2010-03-10