Sources: BBC
Nine people, including five Department of State Services personnel, are killed during a security operation to rescue kidnapped victims in Oyo State, Nigeria. 2026-09-4
Fifteen security personnel are killed when Boko Haram ambush a convoy of vehicles in which government officials were driven in Borno State, Nigeria. 2020-09-25
Boko Haram insurgents carries out an overnight attack against a village in Gwoza, Nigeria, killing 75 elders. 2020-08-26
Insurgents destroy a village in Gubio, Borno State, Nigeria, killing 81 residents. No group has claimed responsibility for the massacre, which is believed to have been carried out by the Islamist Boko Haram terror group. 2020-06-9
Kaduna State governor Nasir el-Rufai reports the death toll from Friday's attack in Kajuru is now more than 130, most from the Fulani ethnic group. Nigerian authorities have not identified the gunmen's motive, but they do not believe the attack was related to the upcoming election. 2019-02-19
A Boko Haram attack last week on a northeastern Nigerian village, Yadin Kukuwa killed at least 151 people. News of the attack was slow to emerge because the militants destroyed telecom masts around the village. 2015-08-19
Boko Haram kills at least 43 people in the town of Gubio in Nigeria's Borno State. 2015-05-26
Gunmen kill at least twenty students at a hostel away from the Federal Polytechnic campus in the northeastern Nigerian town of Mubi. 2012-10-2
A parliamentary election is to take place in Nigeria, but is postponed to 4 April as voting materials did not arrive on time. 2011-04-2
A court in Nigeria charges an Iranian man over an illegal weapons shipment discovered in Lagos. 2010-11-25