Sources: Reuters
Seven people are killed when a mosque collapses in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. 2023-08-11
The Nigerian government announces that Nigeria will develop a vaccine for lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the lassa virus. 2022-07-19
At least 29 people, mostly schoolchildren, drown after an overloaded boat capsizes in Bagwai, Kano State, Nigeria. 2021-12-1
Unidentified militants attack Kuru-kuru and Jarkuka in Zamfara, Nigeria, killing dozens. 2018-04-12
Three suicide bombers kill 27 people and wound 83 near Maiduguri, Nigeria. 2017-08-15
Three suicide bombers at Lake Chad kill at least 30 people and injure at least 80 others. Three women carried out the attack at a weekly market on an island on the Chadian side of the lake. No group claims responsibility; officials suspect the attacks were carried out by members of the Boko Haram militant group from neighboring Nigeria. 2015-12-5
The Chadian Air Force carries out airstrikes against bases of Boko Haram in neighbouring Nigeria to avenge twin bombings in Chad's capital N'Djamena three days ago. 2015-06-18
Nigeria becomes the third African nation to declare a state of emergency over the outbreak. 2014-08-8
Gunmen kill seven guards guarding a marketplace in Yobe State, Nigeria. 2013-02-26
A curfew is imposed on two villages in southeastern Nigeria's Cross River State following communal violence which killed 30 people. 2010-10-26