Sources: BBC
Eleven kidnapping victims, including two NDLEA personnel, are rescued and several suspected bandits are arrested by the Nigerian Army in raids across Nigeria. 2026-04-14
Nigeria grants asylum to Guinea-Bissau opposition leader and presidential candidate Fernando Dias da Costa at its embassy in Bissau to protect Dias from detention by the military junta. 2025-12-1
Six soldiers and 34 Boko Haram gunmen are killed during a shootout in Borno State, Nigeria. 2025-01-5
Six people are killed and at least 79 others are injured in a collision between a train and a bus transporting civil servants to work in Lagos, Nigeria. 2023-03-9
Royal Danish Navy frigate HDMS "Esbern Snare" opens fire and kills four pirates in the Gulf of Guinea after being fired upon. Four other pirates are detained and taken aboard by Frogman Corps. The incident took place 25 to 30 nautical miles south of the territorial boundary of Nigeria. 2021-11-25
At least six people die in an attack in Ngalda, Yobe State, Nigeria. 2013-02-24
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
An ocean surge into nearby shanties kills one person and leaves 15 others missing off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria. 2012-08-20
At least 21 people are killed in a gun attack on a church and later an Army patrol near the city of Okene in Kogi state, central Nigeria. 2012-08-7
Nigerian Sharia conflict: Three people are killed by Islamist group Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, in the latest in a number of attacks. 2010-12-29