| 5,687,266 |
9.92849 |
8.89212 |
Nigeria |
|
No fewer than 12 people were killed at a dawn attack on small villages in Jong, Sunkut and Luhana villages in Barkin Ladi. Fulani herdsmen whose 102 cattle and 12 sheep were rustled from one Hassan Abdulkarim on 21 January by the residents of BarkinLadi came for their cows. |
| 5,687,270 |
4.77742 |
7.0134 |
Nigeria |
|
Armed men seized two officers from aboard a Greek freighter anchored in a Nigerian port and wounded two crew. |
| 5,687,275 |
11.84644 |
13.16027 |
Nigeria |
|
Gunmen shot dead a leading governorship candidate and six others on Friday in northern Nigeria in a suspected political assassination ahead of April elections. Witnesses said that four gunmen arrived on two motorbikes as Modu Fannami Gubio was sitting outside after greeting his father following Friday's Muslim. Others killed were his younger brother, security aides and political associates. Boko Haram later claimed responsibility for the attack. |
| 5,687,280 |
9.92849 |
8.89212 |
Nigeria |
|
Motorcycle-riding attackers stabbed thre University of Jos students, leading to protests and clashes over the following days. |
| 5,687,284 |
11.84644 |
13.16027 |
Nigeria |
|
Elsewhere in Maiduguri, gunmen attacked an army checkpoint Saturday night, damaging a military vehicle in a four-minute gun battle. |
| 5,687,288 |
9.92849 |
8.89212 |
Nigeria |
|
Following the wounding of several students by military forces at a demonstation, residents rioted in Jos, setting filling stations, churches and mosques ablaze. |
| 5,687,293 |
9.92849 |
8.89212 |
Nigeria |
|
Military forces opened fire to disperse a student demonstration concerning security on campus, killing one and wounding 24. |
| 5,687,297 |
11.84644 |
13.16027 |
Nigeria |
|
Two suspected members of an Islamist sect and a policeman were killed Sunday in a checkpoint shootout. The gunmen who arrived in a car opened fire on the three policemen on duty at the check point who returned fire that led to a shootout in which two of the attackers and a police corporal were killed. |
| 5,687,301 |
7.7411 |
8.5121 |
Nigeria |
|
Angered residents of Makurdi clash with a group of soldiers after it is believed a soldier assaulted the son of a prominent area politician and ransacked his house. The validity of the resident's claims are not known. Injuries/causalities are not known. |
| 5,687,304 |
10.31344 |
9.84327 |
Nigeria |
|
An unidentified man masquerading as a worshipper left a laptop bag containing a remote-controlled homemade bomb in a Methodist church in Bauchi city. A police bomb squad defused the explosive, which was a "contraption of aluminium shreds, ammonia fertiliser and mobile-phone batteries. |
