northeastern Nigeria on 5 and 6 January 2012, followed by attacks on police stations and government offices in the north on 20 January. Over 180 people...

attacks on cities and towns in northern Nigeria and captured part of the country's northeast. These attacks included bombings in Maiduguri in January...

ongoing conflict that started in January 2012 between the northern and southern parts of Mali in Africa. On 16 January 2012, several insurgent groups began...

police officers and four civilians in Potiskum. 20 January – January 2012 Northern Nigeria attacks – 183 people, of whom at least 150 were civilians and...

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea...

they have deteriorated into attacks on farmers by Fulani herdsmen. Attacks have also taken place in Northwestern Nigeria against farmers who are mainly...

four shooting attacks, and police then killed the three assailants. The attacks also wounded 22 other people. A fifth shooting attack did not result...

The Nigerian Civil War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), also known as the Biafran War, was a civil war fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra...

A series of attacks occurred during Christmas Day church services in northern Nigeria on 25 December 2011. There were bomb blasts and shootings at churches...

Violence | Boko Haram Attacks and Security Force Abuses in Nigeria". Human Rights Watch. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2020. Group, Sinclair Broadcast...

statistics do not exist; however, Nigeria is divided roughly in half between Muslims, who live mostly in the northern region, and Christians, who live...

December 2011 Northern Nigeria attacks April 2012 Kaduna bombings "Deadly Christmas attack on Nigeria church – Africa". Al Jazeera. 25 December 2012. Retrieved...

Day, Boko Haram attacked several Christian churches with bomb blasts and shootings. Following the January 2012 Northern Nigeria attacks, which left over...

is now Nigeria during the 11th century, and it was the first monotheistic Abrahamic religion to arrive in Nigeria. The northern half of Nigeria was historically...

Islamist jihadist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, which is also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali. In 2016, the group split, resulting...

2013. "Residents flee attacks in northeast Nigeria". Reuters. 7 January 2012. Archived from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved May 30, 2013...

January 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2015. "Scores killed in terrorist attacks in Nigeria". 22 January 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2015. "Gunmen attack police...

Human Rights Watch. "Spiraling Violence: Boko Haram Attacks and Security Force Abuses in Nigeria". 2012. Human Rights Watch. "Everyone's in on the Game-...

On July 23, Coordinated attacks across Iraq killed 116 and left 299 injured. ISIS claimed responsibility. On July 31, Attacks across Iraq killed 24 and...

Aguiyi-Ironsi to be head of state of Nigeria. Consequently, the retaliatory events by Northern members of the Nigerian Army that led to deaths of many Igbo...

terrorist attack on November 28, 2014, at the Central Mosque (Grand Mosque) in Kano, the biggest city in the mainly Muslim Northern Nigeria during the...

Islamist terrorist attacks. According to Fondapol, a French think tank, between 1979 and May 2021, at least 48,035 Islamist terrorist attacks took place worldwide...

interior, two colonies were created - the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and the Northern Nigeria Protectorate. In 1900 the administration of these areas...

fighters made at least three attacks on Syria from Hamadan. 23 August The Nigerian Army said in multiple announcements that a Nigerian Air Force's "most unprecedented...

languages spoken in Nigeria. The official language is English, which was the language of Colonial Nigeria. The English-based creole Nigerian Pidgin – first...

Boko Haram has staged multiple subsequent attacks on government and religious targets in Bauchi state. Nigeria is largely split between the Christian south...

various forms of Traditional African religions. Islam was introduced to northern Nigeria by Arab traders and missionaries in the 11th century, and became the...

agency in Nigeria and one of three successor organisations to the National Security Organization (NSO). The agency is under the Presidency of Nigeria, and...

May 2012. Retrieved 21 May 2012. "Iraq: wave of bomb attacks 'kill 84'". BBC. 13 June 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012. "Scores killed in Iraq attacks". Al...

Bethel Baptist High School. Attacks have continued into 2022, 2023, and 2024. The state is located in the Northern part of Nigeria's high plains. The vegetation...