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The Nigerian State Security department arrests Joe Ajaero, the leader of the Nigeria Labour Congress, at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria, days after Ajaero criticised the Nigerian government for increasing gas prices.
2024-09-9

Nigeria detains tailors who made Russian flags that were used in anti-government protests.
2024-08-6

Major Nigerian unions Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress begin an indefinite general strike, causing closures of schools, public offices, and airports, as well as a shutdown of the national power grid amid a cost-of-living crisis and record low minimum wages in Nigeria.
2024-06-3

Twenty-five people are killed in an attack by gunmen on motorcycles in Dikwa, Borno State, Nigeria.
2022-06-9

Three people are shot after armed forces open fire at a reunion of students, kidnapped in Zamfara a week ago, and their parents in Jangebe, Nigeria, while the parents protest the kidnapping.
2021-03-3

The Federal Ministry of Education announces that schools in Nigeria will reopen on January 18. Parents have appealed to the ministry to rescind the decision following a recent spike in COVID-19 cases.
2021-01-14

ISWAP kills over 20 soldiers and 40 civilians in attacks in Monguno and Nganzai in Borno, Nigeria – four days after they killed 82 civilians in Gubio.
2020-06-13

Cameroon’s army, backed by a regional taskforce, has killed at least 100 members of the militant Islamist Boko Haram group and freed 900 people it had held hostage, the west African country’s defence ministry has said. Regional taskforce conducts sweep along border with Nigeria.
2015-12-2

Over 100 people die in several bomb attacks in Nigeria. [http:--www.vanguardngr.com-2014-03-boko-haram-bombs-maiduguri-100-feared-dead- ("Vanguard" (Nigeria))]
2014-03-2

An ocean surge into nearby shanties kills one person and leaves 15 others missing off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria.
2012-08-20