Sources: CNN
Nigerian police arrest six suspects after an ambush in Benue State kills eleven officers. 2025-09-21
At least 63 people are killed, including seven soldiers, and others are reported missing in attacks by Boko Haram jihadists in Darul Jamal, Borno State, Nigeria. 2025-09-5
At least 22 children are killed and 132 are wounded after a school building collapses in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. 2024-07-12
A Eurocopter EC130 helicopter crashes near Nipton, California, United States, killing all the six people on board, including Nigerian banker Herbert Wigwe. 2024-02-10
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
Boko Haram militants kill at least 30 people, burning them to death while they were sleeping in their vehicles in Borno State, Nigeria. Women and children are kidnapped. 2020-02-10
Amnesty International reports Nigerian security forces have killed more 150 pro-Biafra demonstrators since August 2015. 2016-11-24
A teenage girl suicide bomber kills five people and injures fourteen others in the Damaturu area in northeast Nigeria. 2015-08-25
A curfew is imposed on two villages in southeastern Nigeria's Cross River State following communal violence which killed 30 people. 2010-10-26
The Nigerian House of Representatives announces the creation of ten new states, five in the north and five in the south, by 2011. [http:--allafrica.com-stories-printable-201004300686.html ("AllAfrica.com")]date=August 2019 2010-04-30