ArmedConflictLocation List

Id Latitude Longitude Country Geo Name Id Description
5,694,843 6.41667 2.88333 Nigeria A police officer shoots and kills a protesting marketplace trader after the group he and other officers were trying to disperse attacked him along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway. Following the shooting the mob became irate and lynched the officer. It is not clear why the traders were protesting.
5,694,846 6.59422 3.33748 Nigeria Human rights organisations, under the aegis of the Coalition of Civil Societies, stormed the office of the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, to protest against the crisis in Rivers State House of Assembly and the release of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha from prison. There were no reported incidents.
5,705,570 5.1598 7.32235 Nigeria "Political thugs" steal election materials in Osisioma, Abia State.
5,694,850 6.33505 5.62749 Nigeria Three female teachers of Orogbua Primary School, Upper Ekenwan Road in Benin City, Edo State, were reportedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen. The gunmen were said to have stormed the premises during the school hours and started shooting sporadically, in the process hitting a parent, who came to check on his child. No causalities reported.
5,694,854 8.18333 9.75 Nigeria Tarok militiamen attack Tapga Village of Ibi LGA, kill five residents.
5,694,857 7.3179 8.9951 Nigeria Rioters barricaded a cement factory and Makurdi-Gboko road with bonfire in protest against alleged poor safety measures in the plant. The fire is believed to have sparked an explosion that killed at least one individual.
5,694,860 6.61426 3.32437 Nigeria Residents of Lagos State in Agege were on the streets for several hours, protesting the state government's ban on the operation of commercial tricycles in some parts of the state.
5,694,865 10.63728 12.19741 Nigeria Boko Haram attacked and killed eight people in an attack targeting teachers and Muslim clerics in Bui town, 185 kilometers (115 miles) south of Maiduguri.
5,694,870 11.27639 9.88583 Nigeria Five Almajirai Quranic school students are discovered dead along a street in Gwaram town. The reasons for the violence against them, is not known.
5,694,874 8.13333 8.8 Nigeria About 16 persons are killed by gunmen in Kuduku community in Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa State in the early hours of the day. The gunmen, who were said to be heavily armed with sophisticated weapons, invaded the community at about 11am and shot indiscriminately. The of the attack or the perpetrators could not be ascertained.