Sources: Reuters
Over 70 vigilante group members are killed and others are missing in an ambush by bandits in two villages in Kanam and Wase, Plateau State, Nigeria. Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) denied the initial account and reported eight deaths and several missing. 2025-07-7
A bus lost control and crashed in Katsina State, Nigeria, killing nine and injuring 11. 2025-03-30
A Nigerian Air Force jet mistakenly kills ten civilians in Sokoto State, Nigeria, during a bombing raid targeting armed groups in the state, according to state governor Ahmad Aliyu. 2024-12-26
Fourteen people are killed and 24 others are injured when a drunk driver drives into crowds at the annual carnival parade in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. 2022-12-28
Triple explosions kill at least 80 people and injure 150 in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri. 2015-09-20
A Boko Haram attack last week on a northeastern Nigerian village, Yadin Kukuwa killed at least 151 people. News of the attack was slow to emerge because the militants destroyed telecom masts around the village. 2015-08-19
Armed bandits and robbers riding motorbikes kill 48 people in Nigeria's Zamfara State. 2013-06-19
Gunmen kill at least twenty students at a hostel away from the Federal Polytechnic campus in the northeastern Nigerian town of Mubi. 2012-10-2
Saboteurs attack an oil pipeline in Nigeria's Niger Delta, shutting in 4,000 barrels a day of crude oil production. 2010-10-29
Nigerian police free 15 schoolchildren kidnapped by an armed gang. 2010-10-1