Sources: Reuters
At least 26 people are killed when a truck hits a roadside bomb in Borno State, Nigeria. 2025-04-29
Militants attack two churches, one of them Baptist and the other Catholic, in Kajuru LGA of Kaduna State, Nigeria. Three members of the Catholic Church are killed and several more, mostly from the Baptist one, are kidnapped. 2022-06-19
The death toll from the collapse of a high-rise building under construction in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, increases to 22, as the search-and-rescue operations enter their third day. 2021-11-3
Thirty students and several staff members are kidnapped from a school in Kaduna State, Nigeria, by a group of gunmen. 2021-03-12
Eighteen Indian sailors are abducted near the Nigerian coast. 2019-12-4
Nigeria bans international humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger for allegedly providing food and medicine for Boko Haram militants in the north-east of the country. Action Against Hunger denies the Nigerian military's accusations. 2019-09-20
The death toll of a cholera outbreak in Yobe and Borno, Nigeria, rises to 97. 2018-09-22
Triple explosions kill at least 80 people and injure 150 in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri. 2015-09-20
ExxonMobil says a raid by Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, a militant Nigerian group, has eliminated 45,000 barrels a day of production of natural gas liquids and condensates. 2010-11-16
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan announces he will contest the presidential election in January 2011. 2010-09-15