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More than 1 million children have been forced out of school as a result of Boko Haram terrorism in northeastern Nigeria and its neighboring countries, which leaves the children more susceptible to violence, poverty and child marriage, Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF’s West and Central Africa regional director, said in a statement.
2015-12-22

At least 30 people are killed after Boko Haram militants attack three villages in Nigeria's northeast Borno state.
2015-12-15

Three suicide bombers at Lake Chad kill at least 30 people and injure at least 80 others. Three women carried out the attack at a weekly market on an island on the Chadian side of the lake. No group claims responsibility; officials suspect the attacks were carried out by members of the Boko Haram militant group from neighboring Nigeria.
2015-12-5

Five girl bombers attack the Nigerian city of Maiduguri with at least 14 people, including the girls, killed and 39 injured.
2015-10-1

A teenage girl suicide bomber kills five people and injures fourteen others in the Damaturu area in northeast Nigeria.
2015-08-25

Nigeria postpones its general election for six weeks to allow its armed forces to take control of the Boko Haram-controlled parts of the country.
2015-02-7

A suicide bomber detonates a tricycle taxi filled with explosives at an outdoor viewing venue for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Damaturu, Nigeria, resulting in several deaths and 15 people critically injured.
2014-06-17

A bombing at a football match in the town on Mubi in northeastern Nigeria kills at least 40 people.
2014-06-1

Islamist terror group Boko Haram abduct two prominent traditional rulers from Borno State in Nigeria.
2014-05-30

A mass suicide bomber kills at least two people outside a church in the Nigerian city of Jos.
2012-02-26