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

A cholera outbreak in Bukkuyum, Zamfara State, Nigeria, kills at least eight people and infects over 200 others across eleven communities.
2025-08-28

Around 80 people are kidnapped by unknown bandits near Kajuru Station, Kaduna State, Nigeria.
2024-03-18

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

Nigeria's anti-graft authority arrests six senior officials from the Central Bank of Nigeria and 16 people from commercial banks for fraud. [http:--www.france24.com-en-20150601-nigeria-anti-graft-agency-arrests-over-20-bankers-fraud?ns_campaign=reseaux_sociaux&ns_source=twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=editorial&aef_campaign_ref=partage_aef&aef_campaign_date=2015-06-01&dlvrit=65413 (AFP via Fraud)]date=August 2019
2015-06-1

Villagers in the Nigerian Kala-Balge district of Borno State form a vigilante group and successfully repel an attack from the terrorist Islamist group Boko Haram, seizing three cars and a military vehicle and killing around 200 of the militants.
2014-05-13

28 people are killed in a series of explosions targeting bars in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.
2013-07-30

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

At least 37 people are killed in two days of attacks in northeastern Nigeria, after radical Islamic group Boko Haram issues an ultimatum for all Christians to leave the north.
2012-01-7

Nigeria's acting President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurates a new Cabinet.
2010-04-6