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25 February – 2023 Nigerian general election - Nigerians elect a new president and members of their National Assembly. [4] 3 March – Sixteen people are killed when a pipeline explodes in Emohua, Rivers State. [5] 9 March – Six people are killed and at least 25 others injured when a train collides with a public bus in Lagos.
Nigeria borders Niger in the north, Chad in the northeast, Cameroon in the east, and Benin in the west. Nigeria is a federal republic comprising 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, where its capital, Abuja, is located. The largest city in Nigeria is Lagos, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world and the largest in Africa.
29 May – Nigeria readopts Nigeria, We Hail Thee, which was the country's national anthem from 1960 to 1978, as its national anthem, replacing Arise, O Compatriots. [20] 30 May – 2024 Aba killings: Eleven people, including five soldiers, are killed in an attack on a military checkpoint by unknown gunmen in Aba, Abia State.
4, including Uzodinma. Education. Harvard University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, PhD) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala GCON (/ əŋˈɡoʊzi əˈkoʊndʒoʊ ɪˈweɪlə / ⓘ; born 13 June 1954 [2]) is a Nigerian economist, [3][4][5][6] who has been serving as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization since March 2021.
17 October – The death toll from the ongoing floods across Nigeria, which started in early summer, increases to more than 600. [19] 18 October – Multiple people are killed and 10 others are abducted after gunmen storm a hospital in Niger State. [20]
Reuters. February 25, 2021. The series of attacks by armed bandits occurred over the past 48 hours with 18 people killed each in villages of Kaduna and Katsina states and several others injured. The assailants burnt down houses, displacing the villagers.
Dark October is a 2023 Nigerian film released to Netflix on 6 February 2023. [1] The film is centered on the lynching of four young students at University of Port Harcourt, popularly known as the Aluu Four lynching. The four were falsely accused of theft in Aluu area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. [2]
The insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria is a military conflict that broke out in the city of Orlu, Imo State, Nigeria on 16 January 2021, when the Nigerian Army moved to crush the paramilitary wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the Eastern Security Network (ESN). [30] The conflict escalated after the ESN managed to repulse the ...