Sources: Reuters
Nigeria's Zamfara State begins issuing firearms licenses to citizens so that they can defend themselves from bandit gangs. 2022-06-26
Gunmen kidnap 18 villagers in Kaduna State, Nigeria, including seven children, according to a community leader. 2021-09-7
Four suicide bombers kill at least two people and wound 16 others in Maiduguri, Nigeria. 2017-03-15
Nigeria extends voting in its general election for a second day due to delays and malfunctioning equipment. So far, Boko Haram attacks have killed 43 people. 2015-03-29
Gunmen kidnap four Thai tourists traveling in Nigeria's Rivers State. 2013-08-10
Islamic extremists kill 42 people, mainly students, in an attack on the Government Secondary School boarding school in the Nigerian town of Mamudo in Yobe state. 2013-07-6
In Nigeria six foreign workers, of which one Italian, one Greek and two Lebanese, are kidnapped in a construction site, one security guard is killed. 2013-02-17
Suspected Islamist fighters go on the rampage in Chibok, Nigeria, killing 10 Christians with guns and machetes and burning down their houses. 2012-12-2
Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women attending the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca were deported for not traveling with a male escort. 2012-09-28
Hundreds of angry women dressed in black march though the streets of Abuja and Jos following the recent massacre in Nigeria. 2010-03-11