Sources: Reuters
The Nigerian State Security department arrests Joe Ajaero, the leader of the Nigeria Labour Congress, at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria, days after Ajaero criticised the Nigerian government for increasing gas prices. 2024-09-9
One person is killed and six others are injured after a building collapse in Kano, Kano State, Nigeria. 2022-08-31
Nigeria reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a traveller following the routine travel test required of all international travellers and genomic sequencing at the NCDC National Reference Laboratory, Abuja. 2021-07-8
Gunmen kill 11 worshipers in St Phillip's Catholic Church in the town of Ozubulu in Nigeria's Anambra State. 2017-08-6
The Chadian Air Force carries out airstrikes against bases of Boko Haram in neighbouring Nigeria to avenge twin bombings in Chad's capital N'Djamena three days ago. 2015-06-18
Australia withdraws its ambassador after eight people including Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte, an Indonesian, four Nigerians, and two Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are executed. 2015-04-29
Gunmen seize a Nigerian-owned, Panama-flagged tanker with crew off the coast of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. 2013-01-21
Nigeria's military kill 13 members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram and lose one soldier in a gun battle in Maiduguri. 2013-01-1
Gunmen attack a pub in central Nigeria's Plateau State and open fire on customers, killing 10 people. 2012-11-27
Nigerian soldiers raid suspected militant camps in the Niger Delta in a new offensive. 2011-05-12