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Fourteen people are rescued from kidnappers by Nigerian forces and local vigilante groups in Katsina State, Nigeria.
2024-03-22

Nigerian police say that unknown militants have kidnapped a prelate in Abia State.
2022-05-30

Bandits bomb and open fire at a train in Kaduna State carrying 970 passengers travelling from Abuja to Kaduna, Nigeria, killing 7 people and wounding 22 more. Some others are kidnapped.
2022-03-28

A group of gunmen kidnap students from Greenfield University in Kaduna, Nigeria.
2021-04-20

Thirty students and several staff members are kidnapped from a school in Kaduna State, Nigeria, by a group of gunmen.
2021-03-12

A school pupil is killed and 27 others are kidnapped from their school in the early hours in Kagara, Niger State, Nigeria. Three staff members and 12 of their relatives are also abducted. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
2021-02-17

Pupils are kidnapped from a boys' boarding secondary school by an armed gang in Kankara, Katsina State, Nigeria.
2020-12-11

ISWAP releases a video showing the execution of five kidnapped aid workers in Nigeria. The International Rescue Committee and Action Against Hunger confirmed the authenticity of the video and condemned the killings of their colleagues.
2020-07-22

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

Two explosions rip through the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna killing at least 82 people.
2014-07-23