Sources: BBC
The death toll from heavy flooding that submerged the market town of Mokwa in Niger State, Nigeria, on Wednesday, rises to at least 117. Thousands of homes have been destroyed and a nearby dam collapsed. 2025-05-30
Gunmen kill 19 in Kogi State of Nigeria. A church, a school and other buildings are torched. 2020-01-3
The Spanish-based Proactiva Open Arms NGO rescues more than 700 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea about 17 miles north of Sabratha, Libya. The rescued, who are from Nigeria, are transferred to the Italian Coast Guard. 2016-08-28
Toll of Boko Haram massacre in northeastern Nigeria rises to nearly 170.2015-07-3
Nigeria's anti-graft authority arrests six senior officials from the Central Bank of Nigeria and 16 people from commercial banks for fraud. [http:--www.france24.com-en-20150601-nigeria-anti-graft-agency-arrests-over-20-bankers-fraud?ns_campaign=reseaux_sociaux&ns_source=twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=editorial&aef_campaign_ref=partage_aef&aef_campaign_date=2015-06-01&dlvrit=65413 (AFP via Fraud)]date=August 2019 2015-06-1
Two Boko Haram commanders Mohammad Bama and Abubakar Zakariya Yau are killed by the Nigerian army in a gun battle in the north-east Adamawa State. 2013-08-14
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta threatens to launch a terror campaign to "defend Christianity" in Nigeria in response to attacks by Islamist group Boko Haram. 2013-04-16
At least 10 people have been killed in a series of bombings and shootings in northeastern Nigeria. 2011-07-3
Nigerian part of Jos is sealed off as police search the city following the discovery of a booby-trap bomb. 2010-07-23
Nigerian gunmen take two German men, from Port Harcourt and Lagos, in Abia State. 2010-04-18