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Thirty-one people are killed and seven others are injured in a stampede at a church charity event in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
2022-05-28

Boko Haram kills 70 troops in an ambush in Borno, northeastern Nigeria.
2020-03-23

Nine women are shot to death in the Nigerian city of Kano. According to reports, all of them were involved in a polio vaccination policy and were most probably killed by the Islamist movement Boko Haram, which has previously threatened to target those involved in vaccinations.
2013-02-8

A Dutch court rules that Royal Dutch Shell can be held partially responsible for pollution in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria.
2013-01-30

Gunmen attack an oil barge off the Niger Delta in Nigeria, killing two navy sailors and kidnapping four foreigners.
2012-08-4

The World Health Organisation removes India from the list of polio endemic countries with only Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria remaining.
2012-02-25

Nearly 700 people from a small town within Lagos, Nigeria, are relocated following heavy flooding.
2010-10-12

The government of Nigeria opens two swollen dams in Jigawa State, displacing two million people.
2010-09-24

As many as 30 children die of lead poisoning in northern Nigeria.
2010-08-27

To persuade its volatile – and poor -- Niger Delta's oil region to reduce the conflict in the Niger Delta, Nigeria proposes handing over 10% stakes in its biggest energy industry to “host communities”.
2010-02-19