Sources: Reuters
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
Twenty-five people are killed in an attack by gunmen on motorcycles in Dikwa, Borno State, Nigeria. 2022-06-9
Five people are killed by a building collapse in Lagos, Nigeria. 2022-05-2
Bello Matawalle, the Governor of Zamfara State, Nigeria, announces that 68 children who were abducted two weeks ago have been rescued by Nigerian forces and reunited with their families. 2021-09-13
Kaduna State governor Nasir el-Rufai reports the death toll from Friday's attack in Kajuru is now more than 130, most from the Fulani ethnic group. Nigerian authorities have not identified the gunmen's motive, but they do not believe the attack was related to the upcoming election. 2019-02-19
Toll of Boko Haram massacre in northeastern Nigeria rises to nearly 170.2015-07-3
Boko Haram militants attack Chad for the first time after 30 fighters crossed Lake Chad in four motorboats and attacked the village of Ngouboua. Chad recently joined Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon in a military coalition against Boko Haram. 2015-02-13
At least 45 people drown and 60 are missing after a boat carrying Nigerian migrants capsizes and sinks off shore from Libreville, Gabon. 2013-03-21
Gunmen kill eight people in an attack on a police station and a bank in northeastern Nigeria. 2013-03-5
A car bomb explodes in the Nigerian city of Kaduna killing dozens of people. 2012-04-8