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
15 people are killed and over 25,000 are affected after heavy floods hits Nigeria. 2018-07-30
An Islamic school in the Nigerian town of Bukuru collapses with at least four students killed and 40 injured. 2015-09-13
At least 26 people have been killed in tribal clashes in Nigeria's Plateau State over the past week. 2014-10-12
Nigerian troops kill 37 Boko Haram Islamist militants in air and ground strikes in their bases in the northeast. 2013-10-22
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
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
1986 Nobel Laureate for Literature Wole Soyinka, the first African to receive the award, launches a political party ahead of Nigeria's upcoming presidential election. 2010-09-25
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), a militant group in the Niger delta region of Nigeria, announces the end of its unilateral ceasefire. 2010-01-31