Sources: Reuters
ISWAP jihadists attack an army convoy and base in Mainok, Borno State, Nigeria, killing at least 31 soldiers. 2021-04-26
Three men are fined by a court in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, for hijacking the oil tanker MV "Elobey VI" off the coast of Equatorial Guinea and holding the crew hostage for US$200,000 in March. They are the first people to be convicted under Nigeria's new anti-piracy law. 2020-08-11
Three Boko Haram suicide bombers detonate their devices among a group of football fans, killing 30 people and wounding 40 others, in Konduga, Nigeria. 2019-06-17
Boko Haram releases most of the 110 Nigerian schoolgirls it had kidnapped in February 2018, and warns against sending them back to school. 2018-03-21
Suicide bombers killed at least 64 people in multiple blasts in the northeastern towns of Gombe and Damaturu, Nigeria. 2015-07-17
Following the January 16 Chad authorities decision to send troops to Nigeria and Cameroon to fight Boko Haram militants, the Russian ambassador to the country pledges to supply Cameroon with more modern weapons to combat the Islamist insurgents. 2015-01-17
Gunmen kill 12 people in a raid on a Northeastern Nigerian village. 2013-11-23
An oil tanker in Okogbe, Rivers State, Nigeria, explodes after crashing, leaving around 90-115 dead. 2012-07-12
At least four people, including Modu Fannami Gubio, a former opposition All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) candidate for governor in Borno, Nigeria, are shot dead in Maiduguri. 2011-01-28
Nigeria charges with murder 49 of the 200 people it has arrested so far following the recent massacre of civilians near Jos. 2010-03-10