Sources: U.S. News and World Report
A building collapses in Lagos, Nigeria, killing nine people and wounding 27 more. 2026-06-26
The United States Armed Forces launch airstrikes on over 70 locations in Sokoto State, Nigeria, targeting Islamic State camps on orders of U.S. president Donald Trump. An unknown number of casualties are confirmed. 2025-12-25
Nigerian police arrest six suspects after an ambush in Benue State kills eleven officers. 2025-09-21
At least 27 people are killed and more than 100 others are missing when a boat capsizes in the Niger River in Kogi State, Nigeria. 2024-11-30
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
Belarus, Monaco, Iceland, Azerbaijan, New Zealand, Lithuania, Mexico and Nigeria confirm their first cases of coronavirus. 2020-02-28
At least 100 people are killed and hundreds others injured in an attack by Boko Haram militants on Dalori Village 4 kilometers from Maiduguri, Nigeria. 2016-01-31
A cholera outbreak kills at least 16 people in three camps for displaced people fleeing Boko Haram in Nigeria. [http:--www.france24.com-en-20150916-cholera-kills-16-boko-haram-displaced-camps-ne-nigeria-msf?ns_campaign=reseaux_sociaux&ns_source=twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=editorial&aef_campaign_ref=partage_aef&aef_campaign_date=2015-09-16&dlvrit=66745 (France 24)]date=August 2019 2015-09-16
Gunmen attack an oil barge off the Niger Delta in Nigeria, killing two navy sailors and kidnapping four foreigners. 2012-08-4
Five people are injured in a bomb explosion near a church in Suleja, Nigeria. 2012-02-19