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At least 30 people are killed during an attack by armed men in the village of Kwahaslalek, Plateau State, Nigeria.
2024-01-24

The death toll from the ongoing floods across Nigeria, which started in early summer, increases to more than 600.
2022-10-17

Nigerian police say that unknown militants have kidnapped a prelate in Abia State.
2022-05-30

Hundreds of women protest in the Nigerian capital of Abuja after the National Assembly rejected a series of amendments to the Constitution that would have expanded women's rights and autonomy. The proposed amendments included reserving 35% of all legislative seats and political party leadership positions for women, conferred citizenship to foreign husbands of Nigerian women, and allowing women to inherit the ancestry of their husband after five years of marriage.
2022-03-2

The oil tanker "Trinity Spirit" catches fire and explodes off the coast of Nigeria.
2022-02-3

More female suicide bombers, this time two, and again each believed to be around 10 years old, kill themselves and three others at a market in the northeastern city of Potiskum, Nigeria.
2015-01-11

News emerges that two days prior hundreds of Boko Haram militants had overrun several towns in northeast Nigeria and captured the military base in Baga. [https:--www.wsj.com-articles-boko-haram-overruns-villages-and-army-base-in-northeast-nigeria-1420467667 "(Wall Street Journal)"]
2015-01-5

Nigeria becomes the third African nation to declare a state of emergency over the outbreak.
2014-08-8

Gunmen kidnap four Thai tourists traveling in Nigeria's Rivers State.
2013-08-10

Dick Cheney faces charges in Nigeria over $180 million dollars in bribes a subsidiary of Halliburton, of which Cheney was chief executive, paid to Nigerian officials.
2010-12-2