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Nigeria bans international humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger for allegedly providing food and medicine for Boko Haram militants in the north-east of the country. Action Against Hunger denies the Nigerian military's accusations.
2019-09-20

A fire at a refugee camp in Nigeria kills eight and leaves 15,000 homeless. The residents are people displaced by ongoing conflict with Boko Haram.
2019-03-16

A twin bombing near a mosque kills at least 26 people in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri.
2015-10-15

Villagers in the Nigerian Kala-Balge district of Borno State form a vigilante group and successfully repel an attack from the terrorist Islamist group Boko Haram, seizing three cars and a military vehicle and killing around 200 of the militants.
2014-05-13

Gunmen kill 30 people in the central Nigerian village of Shonong in the Riyom local government area.
2014-01-6

In Nigeria, a clash between the military and Islamic extremists leaves at least 185 people dead.
2013-04-21

Nigerian militants belonging to Ansar al-Muslimeen claim responsibility to kidnapping and killing Italian, Greek, and British construction workers in Northern Nigeria.
2013-03-10

As many as ten people are feared dead after a bomb explodes at a United Nations building in Abuja, Nigeria.
2011-08-26

An explosion and gunfire are heard in the northern Nigerian town of Maiduguri, amid activity by Islamist group Boko Haram.
2011-07-6

Nigerian gunmen take two German men, from Port Harcourt and Lagos, in Abia State.
2010-04-18