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At least 180 people are killed and dozens of others are injured when a gasoline tanker overturns and explodes in Majiya, Jigawa State, Nigeria.
2024-10-16

Nine people are killed during an explosion caused by a gas leak at a primary school and a store in Kano, Nigeria.
2022-05-17

Three men are fined by a court in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, for hijacking the oil tanker MV "Elobey VI" off the coast of Equatorial Guinea and holding the crew hostage for US$200,000 in March. They are the first people to be convicted under Nigeria's new anti-piracy law.
2020-08-11

Eighteen Indian sailors are abducted near the Nigerian coast.
2019-12-4

Police in Kaduna, Nigeria, raid an Islamic learning centre, and free around 500 men and male children held captive there. The freed detainees allege torture, slavery, and sexual abuse, and some display evidence of injury and malnutrition. Two children self-identify as being from Burkina Faso, with the remaining captives thought by police to be mostly Nigerian. Eight suspects are arrested.
2019-09-27

Over 100 people are killed in floods after Nigeria's two major rivers burst their banks.
2018-09-17

Boko Haram militants attack a funeral in the village of Kuda in the Adamawa State of Nigeria, killing 18 women, with more reportedly still missing.
2016-06-17

Triple explosions kill at least 80 people and injure 150 in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri.
2015-09-20

Following the January 16 Chad authorities decision to send troops to Nigeria and Cameroon to fight Boko Haram militants, the Russian ambassador to the country pledges to supply Cameroon with more modern weapons to combat the Islamist insurgents.
2015-01-17

Lobbying for the role of Nigeria's new vice-president begins after Goodluck Jonathan's inauguration and Umaru Yar'Adua's death.
2010-05-7