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Five farmers are killed in a shooting attack by herders in Kwande, Benue State, Nigeria.
2026-01-6

Nigerian president Bola Tinubu appoints retired army general Christopher Gwabin Musa as defence minister, following Mohammed Badaru Abubakar's resignation amid a nationwide security emergency.
2025-12-2

At least 11 police officers are killed in an ambush by armed assailants in Benue State, Nigeria.
2025-09-19

Nigerian police announce that the 20 medical students who were kidnapped in Benue State, Nigeria, last week have been found without making any ransom payments.
2024-08-24

Five people are killed during an attack on a senator's convoy in Anambra, Nigeria.
2022-09-12

One Catholic priest is killed and another kidnapped in an armed attack on the parish in Malunfashi, Sokoto State, in northern Nigeria. Several other people are wounded in the assault.
2021-05-21

Ireland reports its first case of the B.1.525 variant first detected in Nigeria.
2021-02-25

Police in Kaduna, Nigeria, raid an Islamic learning centre, and free around 500 men and male children held captive there. The freed detainees allege torture, slavery, and sexual abuse, and some display evidence of injury and malnutrition. Two children self-identify as being from Burkina Faso, with the remaining captives thought by police to be mostly Nigerian. Eight suspects are arrested.
2019-09-27

Fighting in various remote villages in the Borno State of Nigeria kill at least one civilian and six Boko Haram militants. According to the Nigerian Army, they've rescued more than 5,000 hostages from the militants.
2016-06-26

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