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Seven people are killed as Islamist insurgents attack a village in Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria.
2022-05-3

Twenty people are killed and at least one other is injured when a minibus collides with a vehicle in Bauchi State, Nigeria.
2022-04-20

Boko Haram kills 70 troops in an ambush in Borno, northeastern Nigeria.
2020-03-23

Villagers in the Nigerian Kala-Balge district of Borno State form a vigilante group and successfully repel an attack from the terrorist Islamist group Boko Haram, seizing three cars and a military vehicle and killing around 200 of the militants.
2014-05-13

At least 45 people drown and 60 are missing after a boat carrying Nigerian migrants capsizes and sinks off shore from Libreville, Gabon.
2013-03-21

Seven French tourists are kidnapped by gunmen near Waza National Park in northern Cameroon, near the border with Nigeria. President of France François Hollande states that the Islamist group Boko Haram may be responsible.
2013-02-19

Suspected Boko Haram militants kill three doctors in the northeastern Nigerian region of Yobe. Their nationality is disputed, with reports suggesting they are South Korean, North Korean or Chinese.
2013-02-10

An explosion reportedly occurs outside a mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri with four deaths reported. However, the Nigerian military later denies it was an explosion, claiming the noise was caused by an armed robbery with two deaths.
2011-12-30

Nigerian police free 15 schoolchildren kidnapped by an armed gang.
2010-10-1

Nigerian gunmen take two German men, from Port Harcourt and Lagos, in Abia State.
2010-04-18