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
Gunmen kill nine people including seven in a mosque in Ikara Local Government Area in Nigeria's Kaduna State as worshippers gathered for prayer. Two other injured people were taken to hospital for treatment. 2023-09-1
Three of the students kidnapped from Greenfield University in Kaduna, Nigeria, on Tuesday are found shot dead. 2021-04-23
Kidnapped Auxiliary Bishop Moses Chikwe, of the Owerri Archdiocese in Nigeria, is freed by his captors. Kidnapped last Sunday, police allege that no ransom is paid. International condemnation includes Pope Francis, during his new year message calling for Bishop Chikwe's release. While in Imo state, a Catholic women's organization, stage a peaceful protest at the Imo state government house, calling on Governor Hope Uzodinma, to quicken action for the release of the Auxiliary Bishop. 2021-01-4
Boko Haram militants kill at least 30 people, burning them to death while they were sleeping in their vehicles in Borno State, Nigeria. Women and children are kidnapped. 2020-02-10
The United Nations suspends aid to dangerous areas of Nigeria's northeastern Borno State following Thursday's attack by Boko Haram (ISIL in Africa) on a humanitarian convoy where two soldiers and three civilians were wounded. However, UNICEF noted, aid will continue to the capital Maiduguri. 2016-07-29
Three suicide bombers at Lake Chad kill at least 30 people and injure at least 80 others. Three women carried out the attack at a weekly market on an island on the Chadian side of the lake. No group claims responsibility; officials suspect the attacks were carried out by members of the Boko Haram militant group from neighboring Nigeria. 2015-12-5
Nigeria's anti-graft authority arrests six senior officials from the Central Bank of Nigeria and 16 people from commercial banks for fraud. [http:--www.france24.com-en-20150601-nigeria-anti-graft-agency-arrests-over-20-bankers-fraud?ns_campaign=reseaux_sociaux&ns_source=twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=editorial&aef_campaign_ref=partage_aef&aef_campaign_date=2015-06-01&dlvrit=65413 (AFP via Fraud)]date=August 2019 2015-06-1
Chadian soldiers kill over 200 Boko Haram fighters in a clash near the town of Garambu, close to Nigeria's border with Cameroon. One Chad Army soldier is killed and nine wounded. 2015-02-24
The Nigerian-based militant group seizes control of the northeastern town of Chibok, Borno State. 2014-11-13