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At least 50 people are killed in a mass shooting and bombing inside a Catholic church in Owo, Ondo, Nigeria.
2022-06-5

Six soldiers from Niger and Nigeria are killed and 16 others are wounded during a fight with ISWAP militants in the Lake Chad region of Borno State, Nigeria. Twenty-two militants are also killed and 17 more are captured.
2021-12-31

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control approves the Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV vaccine for emergency use in Nigeria.
2021-08-24

Soldiers open fire against protesters for about an hour and a half during protests against police brutality in Lagos, Nigeria, killing about 20 people and wounding at least 50 others. It is reported that the soldiers had built a barricade and ambulances could not reach the protest area.
2020-10-20

A Boko Haram attack last week on a northeastern Nigerian village, Yadin Kukuwa killed at least 151 people. News of the attack was slow to emerge because the militants destroyed telecom masts around the village.
2015-08-19

Two explosions in the Nigerian city of Gombe killed at least 29 people.
2015-07-22

Chadian soldiers kill over 200 Boko Haram fighters in a clash near the town of Garambu, close to Nigeria's border with Cameroon. One Chad Army soldier is killed and nine wounded.
2015-02-24

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

Nigerian police say that 21 people have been killed in an explosion at a crowded Banex Plaza shopping center in Abuja's Wuse 2 district.
2014-06-25

In Nigeria, the Governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi, is controversially re-elected.
2010-02-7