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The United Nations and Nigeria come to an agreement to release 876 children being held due to suspicions that they are tied to Boko Haram.
2016-10-30

The Nigerian Army claims to have rescued more than 800 hostages from Boko Haram while performing a "clearance operation" in the Northeastern part of Nigeria with fighting killing 22 insurgents.
2016-03-25

Two suicide bombings at mosques kill at least 33 people in the northeast Nigerian cities of Yola and Maiduguri.
2015-10-23

More female suicide bombers, this time two, and again each believed to be around 10 years old, kill themselves and three others at a market in the northeastern city of Potiskum, Nigeria.
2015-01-11

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

Nigerian troops kill 37 Boko Haram Islamist militants in air and ground strikes in their bases in the northeast.
2013-10-22

Gunmen from the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram kill 42 people, mostly students, in an attack on a college in the town of Gujba, Yobe State.
2013-09-29

Nigeria's military kill 13 members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram and lose one soldier in a gun battle in Maiduguri.
2013-01-1

Three explosions and gunfire are heard in the northeastern Nigerian town of Maiduguri after suspected Islamist sect Boko Haram attack police stations.
2011-06-7

Suspected Boko Haram members attack a church in northern Nigeria during Christmas Eve services.
2010-12-24