Sources: Reuters
Nigeria grants asylum to Guinea-Bissau opposition leader and presidential candidate Fernando Dias da Costa at its embassy in Bissau to protect Dias from detention by the military junta. 2025-12-1
A truck and a commercial vehicle carrying passengers collide along the Zaria-Kano expressway in Kano State, Nigeria, killing 21 and injuring three. 2025-07-6
Due to the Alau Dam collapse by heavy floods more than 80% of the animals in the Sanda Kyarimi Park Zoo in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria have been killed. 2024-09-11
Twenty-five people are killed when a truck carrying over 200 people and food items crashes in Magama district, Nigeria. 2023-11-21
The ruling Nigerien military junta orders the ambassadors of France, Germany, Nigeria, and the United States to leave the country. France rejects the ultimatum, claiming they do not recognize its authority, while the US claims it has received no request to withdraw its personnel from Niger. 2023-08-25
Militants attack two churches, one of them Baptist and the other Catholic, in Kajuru LGA of Kaduna State, Nigeria. Three members of the Catholic Church are killed and several more, mostly from the Baptist one, are kidnapped. 2022-06-19
Bandits bomb and open fire at a train in Kaduna State carrying 970 passengers travelling from Abuja to Kaduna, Nigeria, killing 7 people and wounding 22 more. Some others are kidnapped. 2022-03-28
Nigeria’s information and culture minister says the government has recovered $9.1 billion in money and assets stolen from the oil sector. 2016-06-4
Boko Haram attacks the village of Alagarno, in Nigeria's Borno State, killing 17 people. 2014-05-21
Community leaders in Plateau State, Nigeria, appeal for calm following attacks by Muslim Hausa–Fulani against a Christian village near the city of Jos. 2010-10-30