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Nigeria is admitted to BRICS as a "partner country". [6] 2025 Suleja fuel tanker explosion: At least 98 people are killed after a crashed fuel truck explodes near Suleja, Niger State. [7] 22 January – At least 20 people are killed in a Boko Haram attack on the village of Gadan Gari, Borno State. [8]
A fire at an Islamic school in Kaura Namoda, Zamfara State, Nigeria, kills at least 17 people. International relations. Israel and the United Nations. Israel withdraws from the United Nations Human Rights Council, accusing the UN body of "obsessively demonizing" and discriminating against the country.
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. [21]
“My family is now living one day at a time (and) trusting God,” said trader Idris Ahmed, whose sales at a clothing store in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja have declined from an average of $46 ...
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8 February – Abdulkadir Abubakar Rano, a major figure of the Nigeria Police Force. [32] [5] 8 April – Osinachi Nwachukwu, 42, gospel singer (cause undisclosed) [33] 14 April – Orlando Julius, 79, Afrobeat saxophonist, singer, bandleader, and songwriter [34] 22 April – Alaafin of Oyo, Lamidi Adeyemi III. [35]
The End Bad Governance protests, widely known by the hashtags #EndBadGovernance or #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria, were a series of decentralized mass protests in Nigeria [7] that mainly occurred from 1 August to 10 August 2024, triggered by the rising cost of living in the country.
3 February – A judge in Abuja orders the arrest of the head of ExxonMobil Nigeria after he ignores three summons to testify in a corruption investigation. [10] 4 February Facebook bans Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for hate speech. [11] Government troops and planes overrun ISWAP camps in Yobe State and Borno State ...