Sources: Reuters
Nigerian president Bola Tinubu appoints retired army general Christopher Gwabin Musa as defence minister, following Mohammed Badaru Abubakar's resignation amid a nationwide security emergency. 2025-12-2
At least 100 people are killed, including many who were burned to death, hundreds of others are injured, and dozens are still missing, in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Guma, Benue State, Nigeria. 2025-06-14
At a summit in Abuja, Nigeria, ECOWAS lifts sanctions on Niger, but continues to demand the release of deposed president Mohamed Bazoum and his family. 2024-02-24
The 13-kilometre-long (8-mile) Lagos Rail Mass Transit Blue Line rapid transit system begins service in Lagos, Nigeria, after being delayed since 1983. 2023-09-4
A man is publicly lynched by a mob of 200 people in the Nigerian capital city Abuja after he gets into a "heated argument" with a local Islamic cleric. 2022-06-4
Eighteen Indian sailors are abducted near the Nigerian coast. 2019-12-4
Three Boko Haram suicide bombers detonate their devices among a group of football fans, killing 30 people and wounding 40 others, in Konduga, Nigeria. 2019-06-17
The Spanish-based Proactiva Open Arms NGO rescues more than 700 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea about 17 miles north of Sabratha, Libya. The rescued, who are from Nigeria, are transferred to the Italian Coast Guard. 2016-08-28
Two bomb attacks on the central Nigerian city of Jos have left at least 44 people dead. 2015-07-6
At least 26 people have been killed in tribal clashes in Nigeria's Plateau State over the past week. 2014-10-12