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Bandits bomb and open fire at a train in Kaduna State carrying 970 passengers travelling from Abuja to Kaduna, Nigeria, killing 7 people and wounding 22 more. Some others are kidnapped.
2022-03-28

Nigeria receives four million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from U.S. government.
2021-08-1

Three of the students kidnapped from Greenfield University in Kaduna, Nigeria, on Tuesday are found shot dead.
2021-04-23

A group of gunmen kidnap students from Greenfield University in Kaduna, Nigeria.
2021-04-20

Police in Kaduna, Nigeria, raid an Islamic learning centre, and free around 500 men and male children held captive there. The freed detainees allege torture, slavery, and sexual abuse, and some display evidence of injury and malnutrition. Two children self-identify as being from Burkina Faso, with the remaining captives thought by police to be mostly Nigerian. Eight suspects are arrested.
2019-09-27

Five people are hacked to death in Maiduguri, Nigeria, by members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram.
2013-01-23

Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, the Governor of Nigeria's Kaduna state dies in a helicopter crash in Bayelsa state, together with former national security adviser General Owoye Andrew Azazi and other senior officials.
2012-12-15

A car bomb explodes in the Nigerian city of Kaduna killing dozens of people.
2012-04-8

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian man also known as the "underwear bomber", pleads guilty to attempting to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day 2009 in a trial in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan.
2011-10-12

Two prisoners are killed and several others are injured during an attempted jail break in Kaduna, Nigeria.
2010-04-20