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Ten people are killed and many others are injured in a stampede during a distribution of food and clothes at a church in Abuja, Nigeria.
2024-12-21

Islamist militants attack a prison near Abuja, Nigeria, freeing 879 of the medium-security prison's 994 inmates. One prison guard is killed and three others are injured in the attack.
2022-07-6

Nigeria reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a traveller following the routine travel test required of all international travellers and genomic sequencing at the NCDC National Reference Laboratory, Abuja.
2021-07-8

Dozens of protesters in the Nigerian cities of Lagos and Abuja are arrested or injured after police fired tear gas at the crowds. The protests, coinciding with a public holiday marking Nigeria's transition to democracy, were organized to protest President Muhammadu Buhari's Twitter ban and numerous other issues plaguing his administration, with protestors calling for his resignation.
2021-06-12

A Nigerian Air Force King Air 350 military plane crashes on approach to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria, killing all seven people on board.
2021-02-21

Nigerian police say that 21 people have been killed in an explosion at a crowded Banex Plaza shopping center in Abuja's Wuse 2 district.
2014-06-25

Protesters in the Nigerian capital Abuja hold a "million woman" march over the mass kidnapping of schoolgirls by the Boko Haram terrorist group two weeks ago.
2014-04-30

Seven people are killed in Nigeria after a suicide bomber detonates a bomb in his car. The attacks took place in Abuja, at the "This Day" newspaper offices.
2012-04-26

A building collapse in Abuja, Nigeria sees further rescue efforts; at least 14 people are known to have died.
2010-08-13

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua gives his first interview since going into hospital in Saudi Arabia to the BBC, saying he hopes to return home soon as protests in the capital Abuja demand an end to the political situation.
2010-01-12