Sources: Reuters
Forty-eight people and 50 cattle are killed in an explosion caused by a collision between a fuel tanker and a truck in Agaie, Niger State, Nigeria. 2024-09-8
At least 18 people are killed and 25 more injured by an oil refinery explosion in Emohua, Rivers State, Nigeria. 2023-10-3
A pipeline explosion causes a fire and destroys dozens of buildings in Lagos, Nigeria, killing at least 15 people. 2020-03-15
Suicide bombers killed at least 64 people in multiple blasts in the northeastern towns of Gombe and Damaturu, Nigeria. 2015-07-17
The death toll from the bombings in the Nigerian cities of Gombe and Bauchi reaches at least 37. 2014-12-23
Bombings hit the Nigerian cities of Gombe and Bauchi, killing at least 26 people. 2014-12-22
Nigerian writer and literary icon Chinua Achebe dies at the age of 82. 2013-03-21
British Prime Minister David Cameron announces that two engineers β Briton Chris McManus and Italian Franco Lamolinara β who were abducted by Islamic extremists in Nigeria in May 2011 were killed during a rescue attempt by British and Nigerian forces. 2012-03-8
Suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants launch simultaneous gun and bomb attacks in the northern Nigerian city of Gombe. 2012-02-24
Gunmen attack a church in Gombe in northeastern Nigeria killing at least six people. 2012-01-5