Sources: Reuters
Authorities say that gunmen have killed more than 50 people, including two soldiers and a police officer, in a raid on a village in Kebbi State, northwestern Nigeria. Security forces were forced to flee the area, leaving the militants to burn down shops and kidnap women and children. 2022-01-16
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
Boko Haram militants fire a series of rockets in Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria, killing 10 civilians and wounding others. 2021-02-24
Four suicide bombers attack Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing five people with thirteen others wounded. 2018-03-30
At least 26 people have been killed in tribal clashes in Nigeria's Plateau State over the past week. 2014-10-12
A series of explosions kill at least 25 people in a bus park in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. 2013-03-18
Gunmen attack Christian villages in northern Nigeria, killing dozens of people. 2012-07-8
Thousands of people in south-eastern Nigeria attend the funeral of former Biafran secessionist leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu who died in London last year. 2012-03-2
A bomb explodes at a People's Democratic Party rally in Suleja Nigeria killing at least three people. 2011-03-3
Nigeria recalls its ambassador to Libya after Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi suggests the country be partitioned into two separate Christian and Muslim nations. 2010-03-18