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Six people are killed and at least 79 others are injured in a collision between a train and a bus transporting civil servants to work in Lagos, Nigeria.
2023-03-9

Seventeen people are dead after a boat carried into a barge by the tide and capsize in Lagos, Nigeria.
2022-07-8

Five people are killed by a building collapse in Lagos, Nigeria.
2022-05-2

Nigerian Chief of Staff to the President Abba Kyari dies from COVID-19 in Lagos. Kyari is the highest profile person to die from the virus in Nigeria so far. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reports 493 total cases and 17 deaths from COVID-19.
2020-04-17

A pipeline explosion causes a fire and destroys dozens of buildings in Lagos, Nigeria, killing at least 15 people.
2020-03-15

A passenger plane carrying 27 people crashes at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, with 13 deaths reported.
2013-10-3

An ocean surge into nearby shanties kills one person and leaves 15 others missing off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria.
2012-08-20

Nigeria is to question an Iranian citizen over a shipment of arms seized in Lagos, warning that it could report Iran to the United Nations Security Council if sanctions had been breached.
2010-11-12

Erastus Akingbola, former head of the Intercontinental Bank of Nigeria, is charged with 22 counts of involvement in the bank's near collapse at a court in Lagos; he denies all counts.
2010-08-13

Nigerian gunmen take two German men, from Port Harcourt and Lagos, in Abia State.
2010-04-18