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Royal Danish Navy frigate HDMS "Esbern Snare" opens fire and kills four pirates in the Gulf of Guinea after being fired upon. Four other pirates are detained and taken aboard by Frogman Corps. The incident took place 25 to 30 nautical miles south of the territorial boundary of Nigeria.
2021-11-25

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control approves the Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV vaccine for emergency use in Nigeria.
2021-08-24

Three Boko Haram suicide bombers detonate their devices among a group of football fans, killing 30 people and wounding 40 others, in Konduga, Nigeria.
2019-06-17

A fire at a refugee camp in Nigeria kills eight and leaves 15,000 homeless. The residents are people displaced by ongoing conflict with Boko Haram.
2019-03-16

Nigeria's army says it has arrested Khalid al-Barnawi, a leader of the Boko Haram splinter group Ansaru.
2016-04-4

A blast at a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola, kills at least 32 people and wounds 80 others.
2015-11-17

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

Nigeria's ruling People's Democratic Party wins a gubernatorial election in Bayelsa State with its candidate Henry Dickson receiving 90% of the vote.
2012-02-12

As many as ten people are feared dead after a bomb explodes at a United Nations building in Abuja, Nigeria.
2011-08-26

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signs legislation to create a so-called "bad bank".
2010-07-20