Sources: BBC
At least 25 people are killed when Boko Haram gunmen storm a fishing village in Dikwa, Borno, Nigeria. 2023-03-9
ISWAP releases a video showing the execution of five kidnapped aid workers in Nigeria. The International Rescue Committee and Action Against Hunger confirmed the authenticity of the video and condemned the killings of their colleagues. 2020-07-22
About 900 children are released from the Civilian Joint Task Force, a militia formed in Nigeria to counter Boko Haram. 2019-05-10
Nigerian officials report, as a result of negotiations, Boko Haram has released an estimated 82 schoolgirls who were among about 220 kidnapped from a secondary school in Chibok in Borno State in April 2014. 2017-05-6
Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 14 civilians in the southeast Diffa Region of Niger near the Nigerian border. The Nigerien government recently approved a law prolonging a 15-day state of emergency for the Diffa region by three months in a bid to boost security. 2015-10-28
A teenage girl suicide bomber kills five people and injures fourteen others in the Damaturu area in northeast Nigeria. 2015-08-25
Residents of northeast Nigeria claim that Boko Haram has killed at least 43 people and burnt down three villages in recent attacks. 2015-06-11
Boko Haram rejects the idea of an amnesty offer for militants by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. 2013-04-11
The Nigerian Army kills 14 suspected Boko Haram members in a raid on a building, with the death of one soldier and the capture of a potential suicide bomber in a car full of explosives in the northern city of Kano. 2013-03-31
Suspected Boko Haram militants kill three doctors in the northeastern Nigerian region of Yobe. Their nationality is disputed, with reports suggesting they are South Korean, North Korean or Chinese. 2013-02-10