Sources: BBC
Ten people are killed and many others are injured in a stampede during a distribution of food and clothes at a church in Abuja, Nigeria. 2024-12-21
Bandits ambush and set fire to a passenger bus in Sokoto State, Nigeria, killing 30 people. 2021-12-7
Four suicide bombers attack Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing five people with thirteen others wounded. 2018-03-30
Boko Haram suicide bombers kill at least 15 people at a mosque in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu. 2015-10-7
Boko Haram kills at least 43 people in the town of Gubio in Nigeria's Borno State. 2015-05-26
Protesters in the Nigerian capital Abuja hold a "million woman" march over the mass kidnapping of schoolgirls by the Boko Haram terrorist group two weeks ago. 2014-04-30
Nine women are shot to death in the Nigerian city of Kano. According to reports, all of them were involved in a polio vaccination policy and were most probably killed by the Islamist movement Boko Haram, which has previously threatened to target those involved in vaccinations. 2013-02-8
Nigeria accuses the international community of taking action in Libya while doing little to resolve the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire. 2011-03-22
A court in Nigeria charges an Iranian man over an illegal weapons shipment discovered in Lagos. 2010-11-25
The Nigerian House of Representatives announces the creation of ten new states, five in the north and five in the south, by 2011. [http:--allafrica.com-stories-printable-201004300686.html ("AllAfrica.com")]date=August 2019 2010-04-30