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Thirty people are killed in Borno State, Nigeria, by bomb blasts at a hospital, wedding and funeral.
2024-06-29

Bandits abduct around 150 students, a parent and the administrator of a boarding school in Chikun, Kaduna State, Nigeria. The army has rescued at least 26 people.
2021-07-5

The Federal Ministry of Education announces that schools in Nigeria will reopen on January 18. Parents have appealed to the ministry to rescind the decision following a recent spike in COVID-19 cases.
2021-01-14

The Nigerian Army announces a cyber warfare operation as protests against police brutality in the country continue.
2020-10-17

Amnesty International reports that this year at least 149 have died, including children, in a military detention center, Giwa barracks, in Maiduguri, Nigeria.
2016-05-11

Groups including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch urge Qatar to release Mohammed al-Ajami, the poet held since last year on charges of "inciting to overthrow the ruling system" and "insulting the emir".
2012-10-30

Thousands of people in south-eastern Nigeria attend the funeral of former Biafran secessionist leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu who died in London last year.
2012-03-2

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

Nigerian part of Jos is sealed off as police search the city following the discovery of a booby-trap bomb.
2010-07-23

Amnesty International condemns Sunday's execution, in Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya, of 18 people, some of whom were from Chad, Egypt and Nigeria.
2010-06-2