Sources: All Africa
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents on motorcycles kill at least 20 people in shootings in Borno State and Adamawa State, Nigeria. 2026-04-22
At least eight people are killed in an attack on a security patrol in Zamfara State, Nigeria. 2025-10-16
Nigerian authorities confirm that the bandits who kidnapped dozens of children from a school in Chikun, Kaduna State, have released 28 of them and that 81 others remain in captivity. This was the tenth mass kidnapping incident since December 2020. 2021-07-25
Suspected Boko Haram militants raid and burn the village of Mailari in Borno State, Nigeria, killing six people. 2018-08-20
Two suicide bombings at mosques kill at least 33 people in the northeast Nigerian cities of Yola and Maiduguri. 2015-10-23
A Boko Haram attack last week on a northeastern Nigerian village, Yadin Kukuwa killed at least 151 people. News of the attack was slow to emerge because the militants destroyed telecom masts around the village. 2015-08-19
Gunmen belonging to the predominantly Muslim Fulani tribe attack a Catholic parish in north-central Nigeria, according to a report from Christian Solidarity Worldwide. The attack in Kaduna State and claimed the life of a guard and injured several worshippers. 2014-08-3
British Prime Minister David Cameron announces that two engineers β Briton Chris McManus and Italian Franco Lamolinara β who were abducted by Islamic extremists in Nigeria in May 2011 were killed during a rescue attempt by British and Nigerian forces. 2012-03-8
ExxonMobil says a raid by Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, a militant Nigerian group, has eliminated 45,000 barrels a day of production of natural gas liquids and condensates. 2010-11-16
1986 Nobel Laureate for Literature Wole Soyinka, the first African to receive the award, launches a political party ahead of Nigeria's upcoming presidential election. 2010-09-25