Sources: Reuters
Nigeria restricts inbound flights from the DRC, South Sudan, and Uganda amidst the spread of Ebola. 2026-05-29
Gunmen kill 36 people, wound several others, and burn down houses when they attack two villages in Kaduna and Katsina States, Nigeria. Several attackers are also killed during an air operation by security forces. 2021-02-25
Pupils are kidnapped from a boys' boarding secondary school by an armed gang in Kankara, Katsina State, Nigeria. 2020-12-11
At least 30 people are killed in Gamboru, Borno State, in northeastern Nigeria after an improvised explosive device detonates at a market on a bridge. No group immediately took responsibility. 2020-01-6
Following the January 16 Chad authorities decision to send troops to Nigeria and Cameroon to fight Boko Haram militants, the Russian ambassador to the country pledges to supply Cameroon with more modern weapons to combat the Islamist insurgents. 2015-01-17
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
Gun battles in Nigeria between government troops and Islamist Boko Haram militants kill 68 people. 2011-12-24
The Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram claims responsibility for a series of bomb and gun attacks in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Damaturu that have killed at least 63 people. 2011-11-5
Nigeria accuses the international community of taking action in Libya while doing little to resolve the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire. 2011-03-22
Nigeria is to question an Iranian citizen over a shipment of arms seized in Lagos, warning that it could report Iran to the United Nations Security Council if sanctions had been breached. 2010-11-12