| 5,698,581 |
11.84644 |
13.16027 |
Nigeria |
|
Suspected Boko Haram detonates several explosions near the University of Maiduguri and University Teaching Hospital at 11am. The gunmen came in through Kaleri village, a suburb of Maiduguri, split into two groups, with one of the groups storming London Ciki area while the other attacked the city near the University of Maiduguri. Deaths and injuries are not known. Following the blasts security operatives exchanged gunfire with the attackers. |
| 5,698,584 |
11.25 |
13.41667 |
Nigeria |
|
In response to the Boko Haram abduction of a group of students, military forces mobilise four battalions - a little more than a Brigade (3,000 - 5,000 soldiers) - to the Sambisa forest to hunt their captors. |
| 5,698,588 |
11.747 |
11.9608 |
Nigeria |
|
Police intersect a would-be suicide bomber before he is able to detonate his ordinance. |
| 5,698,593 |
4.83941 |
5.54594 |
Nigeria |
|
Armed gunmen attacked a boat conveying three Dutch nationals and Nigerian journalists attached to an international non-governmental organisation known as Hope For Niger Delta Campaign. The attackers were not identified. The incident occurred at 5pm on the Dodo River along the Letugbene axis of the Ekeremor council as they were returning to Warri in Delta State from Amatu on the Atlantic fringe after they were conducted round a hospital. The reason for the attack is not known. Several days later the captors released their Nigerian prisoners, while keeping the Dutch, who were themselves later released. It is believed the Dutch are oil employees. |
| 5,698,597 |
11.10359 |
13.71298 |
Nigeria |
|
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists have kidnapped eight girls from Warabe, a town near Gwoza. The abduction occurred late in the evening. |
| 5,698,601 |
11.84644 |
13.16027 |
Nigeria |
|
Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram attacked Kayamla village market, near Maiduguri, in Borno State, shooting sporadically on the marketers. Causality number not ascertained. |
| 5,698,607 |
9.93333 |
8.73333 |
Nigeria |
|
Two persons were killed and two houses burnt in a clash between two ethnic groups in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State. The clash began after a disagreement over land management, as well as the death of Rukuba civilian at the suspected hands of the Irigwe. |
| 5,698,610 |
6.33505 |
5.62749 |
Nigeria |
|
Over 200 pregnant women staged a protest in Benin City over their inability to register for ante-natal care in government hospitals across Edo State and alleged lack of facilities at the laboratories of the Benin Central Hospital. |
| 5,698,613 |
6.45306 |
3.39583 |
Nigeria |
|
Some major markets in Lagos were shut following a mass protest by traders over the abduction of 234 students of Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok. The markets included Apongbon, Balogun, Oyingbo, Mushin, Ikorodu and Iyana-Ipaja. |
| 5,698,616 |
7.25256 |
5.19312 |
Nigeria |
|
A women's group protests for the release of the abducted students. The women, who were dressed in black, marched to the Office of the Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, to demand the rescue of the girls. Exact date vague. |
