Sources: Reuters
Over 280 prisoners escape from a prison in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, due to damage to prison walls caused by heavy floods. 2024-09-15
Nigeria arrests seven Polish nationals for raising Russian flags during anti-government protests this week. 2024-08-7
Four soldiers and two civilian drivers are killed and two South Korean workers are kidnapped in an ambush against a convoy in Rivers State, Nigeria. 2023-12-13
Gunmen raid multiple villages in Nigeria's Katsina State, killing at least 47 people, according to police. 2020-04-19
Police in Kaduna, Nigeria, raid an Islamic learning centre, and free around 500 men and male children held captive there. The freed detainees allege torture, slavery, and sexual abuse, and some display evidence of injury and malnutrition. Two children self-identify as being from Burkina Faso, with the remaining captives thought by police to be mostly Nigerian. Eight suspects are arrested. 2019-09-27
Twin bomb blasts hit a crowded bus station at the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Abuja, killing at least 71 and injuring more than 120 others. 2014-04-14
Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women attending the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca were deported for not traveling with a male escort. 2012-09-28
Former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar is chosen to challenge incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan for the ruling People's Democratic Party nomination in next year's presidential election. 2010-11-22
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan announces he will contest the presidential election in January 2011. 2010-09-15
Islamist militant group Boko Haram raid a prison in Bauchi, northern Nigeria, freeing 721 inmates. 2010-09-9