Sources: BBC
The National Emergency Management Agency reports that at least 52 people have been killed and over 2,000 others have been displaced from their homes in recent days in tit for tat attacks by rival herders over control of arable land in Plateau State, Nigeria. 2025-04-7
Eight people are killed when a NNPC Limited Sikorsky S-76C+ helicopter crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Bonny Island, Rivers State, Nigeria. 2024-10-24
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reports more than 350 deaths from cholera in Nigeria this year, which is more than twice as many than in the same period last year. 2024-10-7
Twenty medical students from the University of Jos and the University of Maiduguri are kidnapped while traveling in Benue State, Nigeria. 2024-08-18
Gunmen raid multiple villages in Nigeria's Katsina State, killing at least 47 people, according to police. 2020-04-19
Nigeria's army says it has arrested Khalid al-Barnawi, a leader of the Boko Haram splinter group Ansaru. 2016-04-4
More female suicide bombers, this time two, and again each believed to be around 10 years old, kill themselves and three others at a market in the northeastern city of Potiskum, Nigeria. 2015-01-11
Nigerian militants belonging to Ansar al-Muslimeen claim responsibility to kidnapping and killing Italian, Greek, and British construction workers in Northern Nigeria. 2013-03-10
Nigeria agrees to drop corruption charges against Dick Cheney and Halliburton in exchange for a $250 million settlement. 2010-12-18