Sources: BBC
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control approves the Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV vaccine for emergency use in Nigeria. 2021-08-24
Gunmen kill 60 to 74 people in villages in the Nigerian state of Sokoto, where similar attacks had occurred on Monday. 2020-05-28
Boko Haram kills 70 troops in an ambush in Borno, northeastern Nigeria. 2020-03-23
Erin Energy, a Texas company specialising in African offshore oil deposits with licences to explore off Nigeria, The Gambia, Ghana, and Kenya, files for bankruptcy protection. 2018-04-26
The Nigerian Army claims to have rescued more than 800 hostages from Boko Haram while performing a "clearance operation" in the Northeastern part of Nigeria with fighting killing 22 insurgents. 2016-03-25
Islamist terror group Boko Haram abduct two prominent traditional rulers from Borno State in Nigeria. 2014-05-30
Islamic extremists kill 42 people, mainly students, in an attack on the Government Secondary School boarding school in the Nigerian town of Mamudo in Yobe state. 2013-07-6
Nigerian militant group Ansaru announces that it has killed seven foreigners that were being held hostage. 2013-03-9
Nigerian police claim to have captured a senior commander of the radical Islamist militant group Boko Haram. 2012-05-12
In Abuja, two car bombs explode during Nigeria's 50th anniversary celebrations of its Independence from the British Empire, killing 12 and injuring 17. Militant rebel group MEND claims responsibility. 2010-10-1