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Nigerian police announce that the 20 medical students who were kidnapped in Benue State, Nigeria, last week have been found without making any ransom payments.
2024-08-24

Fourteen people are rescued from kidnappers by Nigerian forces and local vigilante groups in Katsina State, Nigeria.
2024-03-22

Fifteen people are killed and many others are injured after armed bandits attacked a mosque in Zamfara, Nigeria.
2022-09-24

Twenty Boko Haram militants and three Nigerian Army soldiers are killed during a gunfight as the military has tried to recapture the Nigerian town of Maiduguri.
2021-10-16

One Catholic priest is killed and another kidnapped in an armed attack on the parish in Malunfashi, Sokoto State, in northern Nigeria. Several other people are wounded in the assault.
2021-05-21

Gunmen kill 19 in Kogi State of Nigeria. A church, a school and other buildings are torched.
2020-01-3

James Ibori, a former governor of Delta State, Nigeria, launches a bid to overturn his guilty pleas on corruption charges in the UK alleging police corruption.
2018-03-21

Four suicide bombers kill at least two people and wound 16 others in Maiduguri, Nigeria.
2017-03-15

Two bombs explode in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri with the Boko Haram movement believed to be responsible.
2012-01-4

The Nigerian opposition Congress for Progressive Change party select former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari as its presidential candidate for April elections.
2011-01-5