Sources: CNN
Nine people are killed and 10 are injured after a bus crashes between Kano and Maiduguri in Borno State, Nigeria. 2026-01-9
More than 5,000 people flee from Borno State, Nigeria, to Cameroon after Boko Haram fighters seize the border town of Kirawa and burn multiple buildings. 2025-10-3
At least 25 people are killed when Boko Haram gunmen storm a fishing village in Dikwa, Borno, Nigeria. 2023-03-9
Boko Haram jihadists attack a farm in Jere, Borno State, Nigeria, killing at least 43 people. The massacre reportedly occurred during the morning, when most workers were harvesting rice. 2020-11-28
A twin-suicide bombing of a mobile phone market in the northern Nigerian city of Kano kills at least fifteen people. 2015-11-18
At least eight people are killed following a suicide bomb attack in northern Cameroon's Sangueleri region near the Nigerian border. Boko Haram have previously carried out attacks in the region. 2015-10-11
Residents of northeast Nigeria claim that Boko Haram has killed at least 43 people and burnt down three villages in recent attacks. 2015-06-11
Nigerian writer and literary icon Chinua Achebe dies at the age of 82. 2013-03-21
British Prime Minister David Cameron announces that two engineers β Briton Chris McManus and Italian Franco Lamolinara β who were abducted by Islamic extremists in Nigeria in May 2011 were killed during a rescue attempt by British and Nigerian forces. 2012-03-8
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