Sources: Reuters
At least 80 people are killed by armed attackers during a shooting spree on several villages in Plateau State, Nigeria. 2023-05-16
Seventy-three children are abducted by armed men at a rural secondary school in Zamfara State, Nigeria. The government of Zamfara State has closed all public schools in order to prevent similar attacks. 2021-09-1
One Catholic priest is killed and another kidnapped in an armed attack on the parish in Malunfashi, Sokoto State, in northern Nigeria. Several other people are wounded in the assault. 2021-05-21
The northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna announces the closure of schools from tomorrow due to an increase of COVID-19 cases. 2020-12-15
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
A twin bombing near a mosque kills at least 26 people in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri. 2015-10-15
Borno State Senator Ahmed Zannah reports that 135 civilians have been killed in attacks in north west Nigeria since Wednesday. 2014-04-12
Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, the Governor of Nigeria's Kaduna state dies in a helicopter crash in Bayelsa state, together with former national security adviser General Owoye Andrew Azazi and other senior officials. 2012-12-15
Nigeria's acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, is sworn in as President of Nigeria following the death of Umaru Yar'Adua. 2010-05-6
Hundreds of Christian villagers are hacked to death with machetes by Muslim herders in Dogo-Nahawa, Nigeria. 2010-03-7