Sources: Reuters
ISWAP jihadists attack an army convoy and base in Mainok, Borno State, Nigeria, killing at least 31 soldiers. 2021-04-26
President Muhammadu Buhari announces that the Nigerian Armed Forces have successfully driven out Boko Haram militants from their last stronghold in the Sambisa Forest in northeastern Nigeria. 2016-12-24
The Niger Delta Avengers militant group destroy gas and oil pipelines belonging to Shell and Agip in Nigeria. 2016-05-28
The Nigerian Army claims to have killed 300 militants in northeastern Nigeria. 2015-02-18
A female suicide bomber, believed to be aged around 10 years old, kills herself and 19 others, possibly against her will, at a market in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, Nigeria. 2015-01-10
Boko Haram captures the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak, killing 50 and forcing more than 3,000 to flee across the border into Niger. 2014-11-24
Air Marshal Alex Barde, the Nigeria head of defense, tells protesters in Abuja that the military knows where the 300 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram are but are reluctant to rescue them due to the fear of having them killed. 2014-05-26
Gunmen kidnap four Thai tourists traveling in Nigeria's Rivers State. 2013-08-10
An armed group kidnaps at least two Americans, two Frenchmen and a Canadian from a Transocean oil rig in the Okoro Oilfield off the coast of Niger Delta, Nigeria, injuring two others. 2010-11-8