Sources: Reuters
At least 180 people are killed and dozens of others are injured when a gasoline tanker overturns and explodes in Majiya, Jigawa State, Nigeria. 2024-10-16
Six people are killed after a building collapses in Lagos, Nigeria. 2022-09-5
Several miners including four Chinese nationals are kidnapped by terrorists in Shiroro, Niger State, Nigeria. 2022-06-29
At least seven police officers are killed in a shooting spree in Rivers State, Nigeria. 2021-05-7
All 279 schoolgirls abducted from a boarding school in Zamfara State, Nigeria, are released by their armed kidnappers. 2021-03-2
Gunmen kill 36 people, wound several others, and burn down houses when they attack two villages in Kaduna and Katsina States, Nigeria. Several attackers are also killed during an air operation by security forces. 2021-02-25
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
Two female suicide bombers attack a crowd on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing three civilians and injuring 33 others. 2019-04-7
An anti-LGBT rights law that makes gay marriage punishable by up to 14 years in prison is passed in Nigeria. 2014-01-15
A bomb blast in the Nigerian city of Bauchi kills 12 people and injures 25. 2011-05-29