Sources: Reuters
A gas explosion at a lead mine in Bashar, Plateau State, Nigeria, kills at least 38 miners working underground and injures 27 others. 2026-02-18
Nigeria's Senate passes the Endangered Species Conservation and Protection Bill, introducing fines of up to ₦12 million (US$8,250) and prison sentences of up to 10 years for wildlife smuggling and strengthening enforcement against illegal trade in ivory, pangolin scales, and other endangered species. 2025-10-28
Eight people are killed after people siphoning fuel from a tanker that was involved in an accident explodes in Ondo State, Nigeria. 2023-07-23
Sixteen people are killed by Fula gunmen at a police checkpoint in Zangon Kataf, Kaduna State, Nigeria. 2023-03-11
The Airline Operators of Nigeria announces that all of their airlines will suspend their domestic flights beginning on Monday, in protest of rising fuel prices caused by the war in Ukraine. 2022-05-7
Boko Haram suicide bombers and a gunman kill 8 and injure 15 in an attack in Maiduguri, Nigeria. All three attackers were later killed. 2019-02-16
A bomb explodes in a marketplace in Yola, Nigeria, killing 31 and injuring dozens of others. 2015-06-5
Two teenage girl suicide bombers kill more than 40 people in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in northeastern Nigeria. 2014-11-25
Nigerian troops kill 37 Boko Haram Islamist militants in air and ground strikes in their bases in the northeast. 2013-10-22
Islamic extremists kill 42 people, mainly students, in an attack on the Government Secondary School boarding school in the Nigerian town of Mamudo in Yobe state. 2013-07-6