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The 13-kilometre-long (8-mile) Lagos Rail Mass Transit Blue Line rapid transit system begins service in Lagos, Nigeria, after being delayed since 1983.
2023-09-4

Eight people are killed and ten others are kidnapped after Islamic extremists attacked a group of farmers in Mafa, Borno State, Nigeria.
2023-06-22

Fifty people are killed and 70 others kidnapped in a series of attacks in Plateau State, Nigeria.
2022-04-10

Boko Haram militants kill at least 15 people in a village on the outskirts of Maiduguri, in northeast Nigeria.
2018-10-31

Armed bandits storm a mining site in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara, killing 26 people, including 16 illegal gold miners.
2018-04-13

Clashes between Nigerian soldiers and Boko Haram Islamists kill 18 people in northeast Nigeria.
2013-08-17

Widespread flooding in Nigeria since July is reported to have killed 363 people and displaced 2.1 million people.
2012-11-5

At least 32 people are killed in bomb blasts detonated during Christmas Eve celebrations near the city of Jos, Nigeria, while at least six people die in attacks on churches by suspected Islamists in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri.
2010-12-24

At least eight people are killed by machete-wielding attackers near Jos, Nigeria in scenes reminiscent of events earlier this year.
2010-07-17