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Nigeria detains tailors who made Russian flags that were used in anti-government protests.
2024-08-6

Sixteen people are killed by Fula gunmen at a police checkpoint in Zangon Kataf, Kaduna State, Nigeria.
2023-03-11

At least 30 people are killed in an ambush in Shiroro, Niger State, Nigeria.
2022-07-2

At least 20 people are killed as gunmen open fire at a market and torch cars in Sokoto, Nigeria.
2021-10-9

Nigeria officially launches a vaccination campaign against COVID-19, with a doctor who has spent the past year treating COVID-19 patients becoming the first person to be vaccinated.
2021-03-5

A fuel tanker explodes on a highway in Kogi State, Nigeria, destroying several nearby vehicles and killing at least 25 people. The victims include a number of Kogi State Polytechnic students whose school bus was destroyed in the blast.
2020-09-23

Three suicide bombers at Lake Chad kill at least 30 people and injure at least 80 others. Three women carried out the attack at a weekly market on an island on the Chadian side of the lake. No group claims responsibility; officials suspect the attacks were carried out by members of the Boko Haram militant group from neighboring Nigeria.
2015-12-5

Five people are hacked to death in Maiduguri, Nigeria, by members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram.
2013-01-23

The Nigerian Minister of Finance announces that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation is insolvent, and is asking the government for funds to help pay off debts and continue operations.
2010-07-13

Two prisoners are killed and several others are injured during an attempted jail break in Kaduna, Nigeria.
2010-04-20