| 5,700,007 |
11.10359 |
13.71298 |
Nigeria |
|
Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram sect members attacked two border villages of Kwatara and Takaskala in Gwoza Local Council of Borno State, killing three passengers in two vehicles and injuring four others. Gwoza is a border town with Cameroun. |
| 5,700,012 |
4.77742 |
7.0134 |
Nigeria |
|
Unidentified gunmen abduct a State lawmaker. The victim is a member of All Progressives Congress (APC) and representing Etche Constituency in the state assembly. |
| 5,700,016 |
12.66106 |
13.27945 |
Nigeria |
|
Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members ambushed soldiers from the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army who were on their way to Damboa, 85 kilometers from Maiduguri. Sources said two soldiers were feared killed while some of them were injured. The soldiers were ambushed near Kwamala village after Dalwa. Other report that "scores" of Boko Haram agents were killed in the battle. |
| 5,700,019 |
7.46667 |
4.56667 |
Nigeria |
|
Obafemi Awolowo University is closed indefinitely after violent protests over school fees. |
| 5,700,186 |
10.27793 |
8.28397 |
Nigeria |
|
Unidentified attackers launched an assault on Fadan Karshi (Fadan Kaibi) during the early morning hours killing five peasants. |
| 5,700,022 |
7.38778 |
3.89639 |
Nigeria |
|
Pensioners under the aeigis of Association of Retired Heads of Service and Permanent Secretaries from Oyo and Osun states, protested non-payment of their pensions and other entitlements by the Federal Government. The protest occurred in Ibadan. |
| 5,700,027 |
5.46234 |
7.43997 |
Nigeria |
|
Abia State Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr. Kenneth Nwosu, shot by gunmen in Olokoro in Umuahia South Local Government Area of the state. The government official survived the attack. It was not clear whether the attack was an assassination attempt or a case of armed robbery. |
| 5,700,030 |
9.08333 |
7.53333 |
Nigeria |
|
Scores of pensioners barricaded the major entry point to the National Assembly complex in protest against the non-provision for the payment of 53.4 percent increment in the 2014 Appropriation Act. |
| 5,700,033 |
6.49666 |
3.1208 |
Nigeria |
|
Students of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (ACOED), Ijanikin, blocked the Mile 2-Badagry expressway to protest the death of three primary school pupils, who were crushed to death by a commercial bus driver. The students who were armed with clubs, cutlasses and bottles also set three commercial buses ablaze while several vehicles windscreens were shattered. The protest caused a gridlock along the Iyana Isashi-Agbara axis on the Mile 2- Badagry road. Though no life was lost as a result of the protest, several people were injured. |
| 5,700,036 |
7.25256 |
5.19312 |
Nigeria |
|
Hundreds of youths from the oil producing Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State protest the failure of a proposed merger between two oil companies. The protest was staged outside the governor's office in Akure. |
