Sources: Reuters
The death toll from Lassa fever in Nigeria this year rises to 109. 2026-03-16
At least 30 bandits, five security officers and one civilian are killed during an insurgent attack on three villages in Faskari, Katsina State, Nigeria. 2025-07-10
At least three people are killed in two suicide bombing attacks in Maiduguri, Nigeria. 2016-12-11
At least 30 people are killed after Boko Haram militants attack three villages in Nigeria's northeast Borno state. 2015-12-15
Boko Haram kills at least 43 people in the town of Gubio in Nigeria's Borno State. 2015-05-26
Nigerian voters elect Muhammadu Buhari (who previously ruled as a military dictator in 1983-1985) of the All Progressives Congress as the next President of Nigeria. 2015-03-31
Protesters in the Nigerian capital Abuja hold a "million woman" march over the mass kidnapping of schoolgirls by the Boko Haram terrorist group two weeks ago. 2014-04-30
Men on motorbikes storm a primary school in Nigeria and open fire wounding four teachers. 2013-03-13
Gunmen attack a pub in central Nigeria's Plateau State and open fire on customers, killing 10 people. 2012-11-27
Nigerian police free 15 schoolchildren kidnapped by an armed gang. 2010-10-1