Sources: BBC
At least 42 people are killed and 52 others are injured when a tanker truck transporting gasoline crashes and explodes in Bida, Nigeria. 2025-10-21
The death toll from the flooding caused by torrential rain in Mokwa, Nigeria, increases to over 200. 2025-06-2
At least nine people are killed when a container falls from a truck onto a commercial bus in Lagos, Nigeria. 2023-01-29
Nigeria's Zamfara State begins issuing firearms licenses to citizens so that they can defend themselves from bandit gangs. 2022-06-26
The U.S. CDC reports the first case of monkeypox in a Texas resident who traveled from Nigeria. 2021-07-16
Forces from Niger and Chad launch a ground and air offensive against Boko Haram Islamist militants in northeastern Nigeria. 2015-03-8
A court in South Africa sentences Nigerian militant Henry Okah to 24 years' imprisonment for his involvement in the Abuja car bombings which killed at least 12 people in October 2010. 2013-03-26
Nigerian soldiers raid suspected militant camps in the Niger Delta in a new offensive. 2011-05-12
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
Hundreds of soldiers are deployed to Aba in southern Nigeria after the kidnapping of 15 school children by an armed gang. 2010-09-30