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Two police officers are killed and three others are injured in an attack in Abuja, Nigeria. A police spokesperson says that the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria was responsible for the attack.
2024-08-25

Dozens of protesters in the Nigerian cities of Lagos and Abuja are arrested or injured after police fired tear gas at the crowds. The protests, coinciding with a public holiday marking Nigeria's transition to democracy, were organized to protest President Muhammadu Buhari's Twitter ban and numerous other issues plaguing his administration, with protestors calling for his resignation.
2021-06-12

82 of the female students recently released by Boko Haram reunite with their families in Abuja.
2017-05-20

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

A new video released by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram claims to show 100 girls they kidnapped last month as they seek a prisoner exchange.
2014-05-12

Eight additional Nigerian girls are abducted by suspected Boko Haram militants following the Chibok kidnappings.
2014-05-6

Protesters in the Nigerian capital Abuja hold a "million woman" march over the mass kidnapping of schoolgirls by the Boko Haram terrorist group two weeks ago.
2014-04-30

A group of terrorists, suspected to be Boko Haram, attack a Nigerian school, resulting in the deaths of two security force members and the abduction of 200 schoolgirls.
2014-04-15

A curfew is imposed on Abuja by the Nigerian government due to recent deadly attacks.
2011-06-29

A Nigeria Police Force station in the northern city of Maiduguri is destroyed in an attack blamed on the Boko Haram Islamist group.
2010-10-12