Sources: Reuters
At least six people are killed, including the perpetrator, and 35 others are injured in a suicide bombing by a Boko Haram terrorist at a mosque in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. 2025-12-24
Boko Haram insurgents kill nine people and injure four others in an attack on Mallam Fatori in Borno State, Nigeria. 2025-07-6
At least 30 people are killed during an attack by armed men in the village of Kwahaslalek, Plateau State, Nigeria. 2024-01-24
At least nine people are killed when a container falls from a truck onto a commercial bus in Lagos, Nigeria. 2023-01-29
Thirty-one people are killed and seven others are injured in a stampede at a church charity event in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. 2022-05-28
Nigerian Chief of Staff to the President Abba Kyari dies from COVID-19 in Lagos. Kyari is the highest profile person to die from the virus in Nigeria so far. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reports 493 total cases and 17 deaths from COVID-19. 2020-04-17
A court in Nigeria grants 47 men another delay in their trial over homosexuality and public displays of affection with members of the same sex. Judge Rilwan Aikawa says it is the last accepted delay at the Lagos court. The men face up to 10-year imprisonment if convicted in a closely watched trial. 2020-02-5
Two teenage girl suicide bombers kill more than 40 people in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in northeastern Nigeria. 2014-11-25
Islamic extremists kill 42 people, mainly students, in an attack on the Government Secondary School boarding school in the Nigerian town of Mamudo in Yobe state. 2013-07-6
Former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar is chosen to challenge incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan for the ruling People's Democratic Party nomination in next year's presidential election. 2010-11-22