Sources: Reuters
At least 14 Nigerian Army soldiers and a local imam are killed and several others are injured in two seperate attacks by suspected Islamic State – West Africa Province militants on army bases in Gwoza, Borno State, Nigeria. 2026-03-3
Nine people are killed and 10 are injured after a bus crashes between Kano and Maiduguri in Borno State, Nigeria. 2026-01-9
Nigeria's air force kills more than 15 Islamist fighters in an airstrike on hideouts in Borno's Sambisa forest, while troops separately kill 13 Boko Haram militants after repelling an ambush on a military convoy along the Gubio–Damasak road. 2025-09-3
Bandits attack Nigerian forces at a military base in Nahuta, Katsina State, Nigeria. 2024-01-15
A school pupil is killed and 27 others are kidnapped from their school in the early hours in Kagara, Niger State, Nigeria. Three staff members and 12 of their relatives are also abducted. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. 2021-02-17
The Federal Ministry of Education announces that schools in Nigeria will reopen on January 18. Parents have appealed to the ministry to rescind the decision following a recent spike in COVID-19 cases. 2021-01-14
Suspected Boko Haram militants raid and burn the village of Mailari in Borno State, Nigeria, killing six people. 2018-08-20
A female suicide bomber, believed to be aged around 10 years old, kills herself and 19 others, possibly against her will, at a market in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, Nigeria. 2015-01-10
Suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants launch simultaneous gun and bomb attacks in the northern Nigerian city of Gombe. 2012-02-24
18 people are killed by attackers armed with machetes in the villages of Wareng and Bardin Laki in Central Nigeria. 2011-01-11