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The death toll from heavy flooding that submerged the market town of Mokwa in Niger State, Nigeria, on Wednesday, rises to at least 117. Thousands of homes have been destroyed and a nearby dam collapsed.
2025-05-30

More than 100 people, mostly women and children, are missing after a wooden boat carrying 300 people sinks in the Niger River near Mokwa, Niger State, Nigeria. At least 150 people are rescued and 16 bodies are recovered.
2024-10-2

At least 28 people are killed during a boat accident in Mokwa, Niger State, Nigeria. The boat carrying more than 100 passengers, mostly women and children, capsized along the Niger River.
2023-09-10

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

Sudan declares a state of emergency after unprecedented flooding kills at least 99 people and leaves over 100,000 people homeless. The floods are the worst on record in Sudan since 1988, while the Nile has risen to its highest levels in a century.
2020-09-7

Boko Haram kills 70 troops in an ambush in Borno, northeastern Nigeria.
2020-03-23

Suicide bombers blow themselves up in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok, killing at least 13 and injuring at least 30 others.
2016-01-27

A female suicide bomber kills 13 people in the town of Abare in northeastern Nigeria.
2014-11-16

Nigerian writer and literary icon Chinua Achebe dies at the age of 82.
2013-03-21

Suspected members of Boko Haram attack a church in northeastern Nigeria, killing six people.
2012-12-25