Sources: Reuters
Two police officers are killed and three others are injured in an attack in Abuja, Nigeria. A police spokesperson says that the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria was responsible for the attack. 2024-08-25
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
Bandits abduct around 150 students, a parent and the administrator of a boarding school in Chikun, Kaduna State, Nigeria. The army has rescued at least 26 people. 2021-07-5
Erin Energy, a Texas company specialising in African offshore oil deposits with licences to explore off Nigeria, The Gambia, Ghana, and Kenya, files for bankruptcy protection. 2018-04-26
A suicide bomber attacks a mosque in Gamboru, Nigeria, killing 11 people. 2018-01-3
Gunmen kill 11 worshipers in St Phillip's Catholic Church in the town of Ozubulu in Nigeria's Anambra State. 2017-08-6
More female suicide bombers, this time two, and again each believed to be around 10 years old, kill themselves and three others at a market in the northeastern city of Potiskum, Nigeria. 2015-01-11
News emerges that two days prior hundreds of Boko Haram militants had overrun several towns in northeast Nigeria and captured the military base in Baga. [https:--www.wsj.com-articles-boko-haram-overruns-villages-and-army-base-in-northeast-nigeria-1420467667 "(Wall Street Journal)"]2015-01-5
Two teenage girl suicide bombers kill more than 40 people in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in northeastern Nigeria. 2014-11-25
As many as 30 children die of lead poisoning in northern Nigeria. 2010-08-27