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2023 Plateau State massacres. A series of armed attacks occurred between 23 and 25 December 2023 in Plateau State in central Nigeria. They affected at least 17 rural communities in the Nigerian local government areas of Bokkos and Barkin Ladi, resulting in at least 200 deaths and injuries to more than 500 people [1] [2] as well as significant ...
Date. May 15-16, 2023. Deaths. 200+ civilians killed (per local activists) 130+ civilians killed (per government officials and Christian Association of Nigeria) Perpetrator. Fulani herdsmen. From 15 to 16 May 2023 over one hundred people were killed in an attack by Fulani herders against villagers in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State ...
The international crisis reached the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, in which over 50 people were killed and many buildings destroyed or damaged by rioting Muslims, outraged because of cartoons about Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. 2008 Ogaminana massacre: 2008-02-26 Ogaminana, Kogi State: over 50
2024 Aba killings. The 2024 Aba killings were an armed conflict that occurred in Aba, Nigeria, on 30 May 2024 in which at least 11 people were killed following the conflicting sit-at-home orders [2] issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE) to commemorate deceased Biafran Heroes/Heroines.
Nigerian school building collapses killing 22 people, Sky News says. (Reuters) - Twenty-two people were killed after a two-storey school building collapsed in central Nigeria's Plateau state, Sky ...
Adeh added that police were investigating the killing, which she said was a culpable homicide. CNN has contacted the police for more information. Same-sex relations are banned in Nigeria and gay ...
2022 Plateau State massacres. / 9.3°N 10°E / 9.3; 10. On 10 April 2022, a gang of bandits killed more than 150 people in a series of attacks in Plateau State, Nigeria. The attacks are linked to the ongoing Nigerian bandit conflict. About 70 people were also kidnapped in the attacks.
On 12 May 2022, Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a second-year Christian college student, was stoned to death by a mob of Muslim students in Sokoto, Nigeria, after being accused of blasphemy against Islam. [3] The muslim suspects arrested were charged with "Criminal conspiracy and incitement of public disturbance", bailable offences with a maximum 2 year ...