| 5,687,392 |
12.43303 |
8.51541 |
Nigeria |
|
A mob angered by the death of a man who had been in police custody rioted Sunday in a Nigerian town, leaving one person dead after authorities opened fire and three buildings burnt. One rioter was shot dead and two others injured by stray bullets. |
| 5,687,397 |
4.83934 |
7.04124 |
Nigeria |
|
An explosion hit the offices of a Nigerian opposition party in the Niger Delta oil region just before the start of campaigning. Labour Party officials said they had been preparing to go the office for the launch of their local election campaign in Obia, just outside the Bayelsa state capital Yenagoa, when the building was attacked with explosives shortly before dawn. |
| 5,687,402 |
9.53333 |
8.9 |
Nigeria |
|
Attackers armed with rifles killed 18 people in Bere Reti Fan village in Barkin Ladi central Nigeria. One attacker was among the dead. The attackers were believed to be members of the mostly Muslim Fulani ethnic group. |
| 5,687,406 |
7.5887 |
8.2087 |
Nigeria |
|
36 dead the 10,000 displaced following a clash between Tiv and Fulani militias in Naka. Exact date not known, source dated 25/02/2011. |
| 5,687,411 |
7.7411 |
8.5121 |
Nigeria |
|
Benue State Chairman of Action Congress and the party's publicity secretary narrowly escape death after being attacked and shot at by unknown gunmen in Makurdi. Date vague - source dated 23/02. |
| 5,687,416 |
7.46667 |
9.2 |
Nigeria |
|
Security agents attached to the PDP governor of Benue state foiled attempts by "hoodlums" to disrupt his campaign rally in Buruku. One injury reported. |
| 5,687,420 |
11.84644 |
13.16027 |
Nigeria |
|
Police said they had shot dead a man financing a radical Islamist sect in northern Nigeria and arrested another man suspected of supplying the group with arms. The man financing the Bokom Haram sect was killed when a shootout broke out during a raid on one of the group's hideouts. |
| 5,687,425 |
7.16938 |
9.28465 |
Nigeria |
|
A group of PDP supports attack an AC lawmaker representing the Katsina-Ala/Logo/Ukum constituency while he and his entourage travelled in Katsina-Ala. Though the representative escaped unhurt a AC supporter was killed in the machete attack. |
| 5,687,430 |
9.92849 |
8.89212 |
Nigeria |
|
Attackers armed with guns and machetes killed six people in a village in central Nigeria. The attack took place in the early hours outside a science college in a village near Jos, the capital of Plateau state. A lecturer at the college, attended mostly by Christian students, said six people were killed and several more wounded when armed Muslim youths stormed the village. |
| 5,687,435 |
11.84644 |
13.16027 |
Nigeria |
|
Motor-cycle riding gunmen shot another off-duty policeman along airport road on his way home less than an hour after the first attack. |
