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Nigeria says it has uncovered an alliance between bandit gangs and the Islamist Boko Haram group.
2022-04-13

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 head of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, warns of a "biblical" famine due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and says that the disaster already exists in Ethiopia, Madagascar, South Sudan and Yemen, while also warning that conditions are of "particular concern" in Nigeria and Burkina Faso.
2021-06-30

Boko Haram jihadists storm Pemi, a Christian village in Borno State, Nigeria, shooting people and burning down a church and a hospital, killing at least 11 civilians. A priest is kidnapped.
2020-12-24

Two explosions rip through the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna killing at least 82 people.
2014-07-23

Violence across Nigeria, between Islamic terrorists and the Nigerian military, kills dozens of people.
2014-03-3

Gunmen from the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram kill 42 people, mostly students, in an attack on a college in the town of Gujba, Yobe State.
2013-09-29

A parliamentary election is to take place in Nigeria, but is postponed to 4 April as voting materials did not arrive on time.
2011-04-2

In Abuja, two car bombs explode during Nigeria's 50th anniversary celebrations of its Independence from the British Empire, killing 12 and injuring 17. Militant rebel group MEND claims responsibility.
2010-10-1

Switzerland ceases to deport asylum seekers in response to the death of a Nigerian man at Zürich Airport as he was being forcefully deported. Nigeria condemns the occurrence.
2010-03-19