Sources: Reuters
Nigeria's Dangote Group launches an initial public offering (IPO) of 4.1 billion shares at ₦525 (US$0.40) each, seeking to raise about ₦2.15 trillion ($1.6 billion) to fund the expansion of the Dangote refinery in Lekki, Lagos State. The sale is set to become Africa's biggest IPO. 2026-09-14
At least 200 people are feared dead after a Nigerian Air Force airstrike accidentally hits a market instead of Boko Haram militants in Yobe State, Nigeria. 2026-04-11
At least 50 people are killed and women and children are abducted in overnight attacks by gunmen on a village in Bukkuyum LGA, Zamfara State, Nigeria. 2026-02-20
Three people are killed and 77 others are injured in an explosion caused by explosives stored for use in illegal mining operations at several buildings in Ibadan, Nigeria. 2024-01-17
Maryland reports their first case of monkeypox in a resident who traveled from Nigeria. 2021-11-16
Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, experiences widespread looting and violent attacks by rioters focused on foreigners. Police are currently outnumbered and many businesses have been set on fire. The riots follow the death of a taxi driver reportedly shot by Nigerian drug dealers after they realized he had seen them complete a drug deal and had also seen their supplier. Bus services are suspended and authorities say the capital is currently unsafe. 2019-08-28
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announces the formation of three new missions, each in Vietnam, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nigeria. 2016-01-7
Naomi Mutah Nyadar, the leader of the One Million Women protest in Nigeria over failure to act on the kidnapping of 203 schoolgirls by terrorist group Boko Haram, is reportedly detained on the orders of First Lady of Nigeria Patience Jonathan. 2014-05-5
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan announces he will contest the presidential election in January 2011. 2010-09-15
The Supreme Court rules that Nigerian families can sue drug company Pfizer for using a deadly antibiotic on their children. 2010-06-29