Sources: THEWILL
At least 86 people are killed and several others are injured when a fuel tanker overturns on a highway in Suleja, Niger State, Nigeria, and later explodes when people gather to collect the spilled fuel. 2025-01-18
The 13-kilometre-long (8-mile) Lagos Rail Mass Transit Blue Line rapid transit system begins service in Lagos, Nigeria, after being delayed since 1983. 2023-09-4
Boko Haram militants attack a funeral in the village of Kuda in the Adamawa State of Nigeria, killing 18 women, with more reportedly still missing. 2016-06-17
A blast at a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola, kills at least 32 people and wounds 80 others. 2015-11-17
Australia withdraws its ambassador after eight people including Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte, an Indonesian, four Nigerians, and two Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are executed. 2015-04-29
At least 60 people die in Nigeria following a collision between a bus and a petrol tanker on the Benin–Ore expressway. 2013-04-5
The World Health Organisation removes India from the list of polio endemic countries with only Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria remaining. 2012-02-25
Five people are injured in a bomb explosion near a church in Suleja, Nigeria. 2012-02-19
A bomb explodes at a People's Democratic Party rally in Suleja Nigeria killing at least three people. 2011-03-3
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