Sources: Reuters
Eighteen people are killed and ten more injured in a gasoline tank truck explosion along an expressway in Enugu State, Nigeria. 2025-01-25
Fourteen people are rescued from kidnappers by Nigerian forces and local vigilante groups in Katsina State, Nigeria. 2024-03-22
Fifty people are killed and 70 others kidnapped in a series of attacks in Plateau State, Nigeria. 2022-04-10
The death toll from the collapse of a building three days ago in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, increases to 36. 2021-11-4
Nigerian Chief of Staff to the President Abba Kyari dies from COVID-19 in Lagos. Kyari is the highest profile person to die from the virus in Nigeria so far. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reports 493 total cases and 17 deaths from COVID-19. 2020-04-17
A wave of xenophobic attacks on migrants and foreign owned businesses in South Africa, particularly targeting Nigerian citizens, continues into its sixth day. 2019-09-3
After having been postponed by a week, Nigeria's general election takes place nationwide. 2019-02-23
Nigerian soldiers kill at least 12 people and injure dozens more in a clash with followers of Shi'a cleric Ibrahim Zakzaky's Islamic movement in the northern town of Zaria. The army says the crowd surged towards General Tukur Buratai's convoy, some firing and attempting to kill Buratai. Afterward, the Nigerian Army and the Islamic Movement accuse each other of instigating the attacks. 2015-12-12
Saboteurs attack an oil pipeline in Nigeria's Niger Delta, shutting in 4,000 barrels a day of crude oil production. 2010-10-29
President Goodluck Jonathan nominates Namadi Sambo to serve as Nigeria's vice president. 2010-05-13