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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

Eight people are killed and a dozen others are injured after a roadside bomb suspected to be planted by Islamic extremists hits a bus on the Damboa-Maiduguri highway in Borno State, Nigeria.
2025-04-13

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

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

A bomb explodes in a marketplace in Yola, Nigeria, killing 31 and injuring dozens of others.
2015-06-5

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

Nigeria becomes the third African nation to declare a state of emergency over the outbreak.
2014-08-8

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

President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria wins the presidential election held on 16 April.
2011-04-20