Sources: Reuters
Eight people are killed and ten others are kidnapped after Islamic extremists attacked a group of farmers in Mafa, Borno State, Nigeria. 2023-06-22
Nigeria's Zamfara State begins issuing firearms licenses to citizens so that they can defend themselves from bandit gangs. 2022-06-26
Over 100 people are killed after an illegal oil refining depot explodes in Ohaji-Egbema, Imo State, Nigeria. 2022-04-23
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari announces that Nigeria is working on developing its own COVID-19 vaccine. 2022-01-7
All 279 schoolgirls abducted from a boarding school in Zamfara State, Nigeria, are released by their armed kidnappers. 2021-03-2
At least 50 people are killed and 30 others injured when a pipeline catches fire and explodes in southeast Nigeria. 2018-10-13
A mystery disease that kills patients within 24 hours has killed at least 18 people within the past week in the Nigerian town of Ode-Irele in Ondo State. 2015-04-18
British Prime Minister David Cameron announces that two engineers β Briton Chris McManus and Italian Franco Lamolinara β who were abducted by Islamic extremists in Nigeria in May 2011 were killed during a rescue attempt by British and Nigerian forces. 2012-03-8
Gunmen attack a church in Gombe in northeastern Nigeria killing at least six people. 2012-01-5
Hundreds of angry women dressed in black march though the streets of Abuja and Jos following the recent massacre in Nigeria. 2010-03-11