Sources: BBC
More than 100 people, mostly women and children, are missing after a wooden boat carrying 300 people sinks in the Niger River near Mokwa, Niger State, Nigeria. At least 150 people are rescued and 16 bodies are recovered. 2024-10-2
Twenty medical students from the University of Jos and the University of Maiduguri are kidnapped while traveling in Benue State, Nigeria. 2024-08-18
Six people are killed and at least 79 others are injured in a collision between a train and a bus transporting civil servants to work in Lagos, Nigeria. 2023-03-9
21 people are killed after a boat capsizes in Nigeria's northwestern state of Sokoto. 2018-08-3
Hundreds of people have been found dead in the northern Nigerian town of Damasak, most likely killed by Boko Haram. 2015-04-27
Thirty-two people die after a head on collision between two buses in Nigeria's Bauchi State. 2012-02-16
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 bomb explodes in the Nigerian capital Abuja, killing four people. 2010-12-31
Acting President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan signs the country's 4.6 trillion naira budget for 2010 into law. 2010-04-22
Hundreds of angry women dressed in black march though the streets of Abuja and Jos following the recent massacre in Nigeria. 2010-03-11