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An army drone strike in Kaduna State mistakenly kills at least 85 civilians and injures 60 others during a Muslim festival.
2023-12-4

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

Seven soldiers are killed and two others are missing after gunmen ambush them in Taraba State, Nigeria.
2022-05-11

Authorities say that gunmen have killed more than 50 people, including two soldiers and a police officer, in a raid on a village in Kebbi State, northwestern Nigeria. Security forces were forced to flee the area, leaving the militants to burn down shops and kidnap women and children.
2022-01-16

Bello Matawalle, the Governor of Zamfara State, Nigeria, announces that 68 children who were abducted two weeks ago have been rescued by Nigerian forces and reunited with their families.
2021-09-13

Boko Haram jihadists storm Pemi, a Christian village in Borno State, Nigeria, shooting people and burning down a church and a hospital, killing at least 11 civilians. A priest is kidnapped.
2020-12-24

Fifteen security personnel are killed when Boko Haram ambush a convoy of vehicles in which government officials were driven in Borno State, Nigeria.
2020-09-25

ISWAP kills over 20 soldiers and 40 civilians in attacks in Monguno and Nganzai in Borno, Nigeria – four days after they killed 82 civilians in Gubio.
2020-06-13

Nigerian soldiers kill at least 12 people and injure dozens more in a clash with followers of Shi'a cleric Ibrahim Zakzaky's Islamic movement in the northern town of Zaria. The army says the crowd surged towards General Tukur Buratai's convoy, some firing and attempting to kill Buratai. Afterward, the Nigerian Army and the Islamic Movement accuse each other of instigating the attacks.
2015-12-12

The Nigerian Army claims to have killed 300 militants in northeastern Nigeria.
2015-02-18