Sources: Reuters
ISWAP releases a video showing the execution of five kidnapped aid workers in Nigeria. The International Rescue Committee and Action Against Hunger confirmed the authenticity of the video and condemned the killings of their colleagues. 2020-07-22
At least 50 people are killed and 30 others injured when a pipeline catches fire and explodes in southeast Nigeria. 2018-10-13
A twin-suicide bombing of a mobile phone market in the northern Nigerian city of Kano kills at least fifteen people. 2015-11-18
Boko Haram militants raid five different villages around Maiduguri, Nigeria killing 37 people. 2015-06-12
Bombings hit the Nigerian cities of Gombe and Bauchi, killing at least 26 people. 2014-12-22
At least 26 people have been killed in tribal clashes in Nigeria's Plateau State over the past week. 2014-10-12
A court in South Africa sentences Nigerian militant Henry Okah to 24 years' imprisonment for his involvement in the Abuja car bombings which killed at least 12 people in October 2010. 2013-03-26
Nigerian writer and literary icon Chinua Achebe dies at the age of 82. 2013-03-21
Gunmen seize a Nigerian-owned, Panama-flagged tanker with crew off the coast of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. 2013-01-21
Several explosions are reported near a Christian service at Bayero University Kano in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, with at least 16 people killed. 2012-04-29