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At least 42 women, residents of an IDP camp, are abducted by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram in Jere, Borno State, Nigeria.
2023-08-23

Eight people are killed and ten others are kidnapped after Islamic extremists attacked a group of farmers in Mafa, Borno State, Nigeria.
2023-06-22

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

Suspected serial killer Gracious David-West confesses to fifteen murders at a hotel in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
2019-09-25

A suicide-bomb attack on a Shia Muslim procession in Nigeria's northern Kano state leaves at least 21 people dead.
2015-11-27

Boko Haram captures the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak, killing 50 and forcing more than 3,000 to flee across the border into Niger.
2014-11-24

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

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

The BBC condemns the treatment given to one of its reporters, who has been deliberately assaulted by police while doing his work in Cairo. He was beaten up with steel bars, "the ones used here for slaughtering animals".
2011-01-29

Nigerian soldiers open fire on a crowd after curfew in Jos, killing two people, days after Muslim-Christian riots in the area left more than 200 dead including dozens of children
2010-03-10