Sources: BBC
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
Forty-eight people and 50 cattle are killed in an explosion caused by a collision between a fuel tanker and a truck in Agaie, Niger State, Nigeria. 2024-09-8
Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 13 farmers in Shiroro, Niger State, Nigeria. 2024-08-22
Gunmen kill nine people including seven in a mosque in Ikara Local Government Area in Nigeria's Kaduna State as worshippers gathered for prayer. Two other injured people were taken to hospital for treatment. 2023-09-1
Eleven people are killed and 13 others injured after Boko Haram militants attack a security convoy taking people displaced by an insurgency back to their homes in Borno State, Nigeria. 2020-09-26
Nigerian Shia Islamic Movement leader, Ibrahim Zakzaky, who is detained at an unknown location without charges since December 2015, makes a short public appearance, his first in two years, being allowed to see his doctor. 2018-01-13
A female suicide bomber kills 13 people in the town of Abare in northeastern Nigeria. 2014-11-16
Gunmen belonging to the predominantly Muslim Fulani tribe attack a Catholic parish in north-central Nigeria, according to a report from Christian Solidarity Worldwide. The attack in Kaduna State and claimed the life of a guard and injured several worshippers. 2014-08-3
Gunmen kill at least twenty students at a hostel away from the Federal Polytechnic campus in the northeastern Nigerian town of Mubi. 2012-10-2
More than 50 doctors in Edo State, Nigeria go on strike after a colleague is kidnapped by unidentified gunmen. 2010-04-8