Sources: Reuters
Twelve people are killed when a tank truck explodes in Ofu, Kogi State, Nigeria. 2022-11-11
The death toll from the collapse of a building three days ago in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, increases to 36. 2021-11-4
Bandits abduct around 150 students, a parent and the administrator of a boarding school in Chikun, Kaduna State, Nigeria. The army has rescued at least 26 people. 2021-07-5
All 42 people, including 27 students, who were kidnapped from a boarding school in Kagara, Niger State, Nigeria, on February 17 are released by their captors. 2021-02-27
Two bombs explode in the central Nigerian city of Jos with at least 40 people dead. 2014-12-11
Two explosions rip through the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna killing at least 82 people. 2014-07-23
Nigerian writer and literary icon Chinua Achebe dies at the age of 82. 2013-03-21
Nigeria is to question an Iranian citizen over a shipment of arms seized in Lagos, warning that it could report Iran to the United Nations Security Council if sanctions had been breached. 2010-11-12
Nigeria charges with murder 49 of the 200 people it has arrested so far following the recent massacre of civilians near Jos. 2010-03-10