Sources: BBC
Protests against President Bola Tinubu's economic reforms continue across Nigeria, as security forces fire tear gas at protestors and the government orders curfews across several northern states. 2024-08-2
Twenty Boko Haram militants and three Nigerian Army soldiers are killed during a gunfight as the military has tried to recapture the Nigerian town of Maiduguri. 2021-10-16
Nigeria reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a traveller following the routine travel test required of all international travellers and genomic sequencing at the NCDC National Reference Laboratory, Abuja. 2021-07-8
ISWAP jihadists attack an army convoy and base in Mainok, Borno State, Nigeria, killing at least 31 soldiers. 2021-04-26
Nigeria officially launches a vaccination campaign against COVID-19, with a doctor who has spent the past year treating COVID-19 patients becoming the first person to be vaccinated. 2021-03-5
Gunmen kill 60 to 74 people in villages in the Nigerian state of Sokoto, where similar attacks had occurred on Monday. 2020-05-28
A spat in a market in Nigeria's northern Kaduna State results in 55 dead. After the brawl, 22 people were arrested. 2018-10-20
Islamist terror group Boko Haram kills at least 33 security personnel during attacks in Nigeria's northeastern Yobe State. 2014-05-26
Seven people are killed in Nigeria after a suicide bomber detonates a bomb in his car. The attacks took place in Abuja, at the "This Day" newspaper offices. 2012-04-26
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