Sources: All Africa
Nigerian president Bola Tinubu declares a nationwide security emergency and orders the recruitment of 20,000 additional police officers and the deployment of specialised units in response to recent killings and kidnappings. 2025-11-26
At least eight people are killed in an attack on a security patrol in Zamfara State, Nigeria. 2025-10-16
Due to the Alau Dam collapse by heavy floods more than 80% of the animals in the Sanda Kyarimi Park Zoo in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria have been killed. 2024-09-11
Twelve people are killed when a tank truck explodes in Ofu, Kogi State, Nigeria. 2022-11-11
Armed bandits storm a mining site in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara, killing 26 people, including 16 illegal gold miners. 2018-04-13
A suicide bomber attacks a mosque in Gamboru, Nigeria, killing 11 people. 2018-01-3
At least 56 are killed and 70 wounded in a twin suicide attack in northeastern Nigeria. [https:--www.naij.com-1076968-breaking-boko-haram-twin-bomb-blast-kills-47.html (NAIJ)], [https:--www.bbc.com-news-world-africa-38263837 (BBC)], [https:--www.nytimes.com-aponline-2016-12-09-world-africa-ap-af-nigeria-boko-haram.html?_r=0 ("The New York Times")], [http:--europe.newsweek.com-nigeria-double-suicide-bomb-kills-30-former-boko-haram-stronghold-530142?rm=eu (Newsweek)], [http:--www.foxnews.com-world-2016-12-10-toll-rises-to-57-in-suicide-bombings-in-northeast-nigeria.html (FOX News)] Madagali suicide bombings2016-12-9
News emerges that two days prior hundreds of Boko Haram militants had overrun several towns in northeast Nigeria and captured the military base in Baga. [https:--www.wsj.com-articles-boko-haram-overruns-villages-and-army-base-in-northeast-nigeria-1420467667 "(Wall Street Journal)"]2015-01-5
Air Marshal Alex Barde, the Nigeria head of defense, tells protesters in Abuja that the military knows where the 300 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram are but are reluctant to rescue them due to the fear of having them killed. 2014-05-26