Sources: Reuters
Thirteen people are killed and five others are injured when a bus crashes in Kano State, Nigeria. 2025-10-26
At least 38 people are killed and several houses are torched during two attacks at two villages in Kagoro, Kaduna State, Nigeria. 2022-12-20
Nigeria reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a traveller following the routine travel test required of all international travellers and genomic sequencing at the NCDC National Reference Laboratory, Abuja. 2021-07-8
At least 30 people are killed in Gamboru, Borno State, in northeastern Nigeria after an improvised explosive device detonates at a market on a bridge. No group immediately took responsibility. 2020-01-6
Nigerian police killed 104 cattle thieves in operations in the north-western state of Zamfara. 2018-11-30
Nigeria’s information and culture minister says the government has recovered $9.1 billion in money and assets stolen from the oil sector. 2016-06-4
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announces the formation of three new missions, each in Vietnam, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nigeria. 2016-01-7
A court in South Africa sentences Nigerian militant Henry Okah to 24 years' imprisonment for his involvement in the Abuja car bombings which killed at least 12 people in October 2010. 2013-03-26
The death toll of a series of co-ordinated bombing attacks in Kano, Nigeria, rises to more than 140. The attacks, which targeted police stations across the city, are attributed to Islamist group Boko Haram. 2012-01-21
Police in Nigeria seize the passports of four top football officials who were sacked after the national football team's poor performance at the 2010 FIFA World Cup leads to fraud allegations. 2010-07-16