| 5,704,352 |
6.45306 |
3.39583 |
Nigeria |
|
Competing protests, for and against a ministerial nominee (Defence) by the state Senate - A group of protesters urged the Senate to approve his nomination another group said he was unfit to return to the federal cabinet. |
| 5,704,356 |
7.7573 |
8.7521 |
Nigeria |
|
A young boy is burnt to death and thirty houses razed when tension between settlers and natives in Abinsi becomes violent. It is believed the houses were set alight intentionally. |
| 5,704,360 |
11.15604 |
12.75758 |
Nigeria |
|
Boko Haram attacks Njaba, 20km from Damboa, razes the town and kills 68, most of them children. The attack occurred on the morning of 03/03. |
| 5,704,364 |
11.10359 |
13.71298 |
Nigeria |
|
Boko Haram in Gwoza rounded up and executed a group of elderly men. The numbers of the dead not known. |
| 5,704,368 |
12.1 |
13.7 |
Nigeria |
|
On 05/03, Nigeria announced that troops were now in "full control" of Mafa, some 50 kilometres east of Maiduguri, "after completing the operation to clear terrorists from the town". There was no independent verification of the claim. Causalities not known. The date(s) of actual fighting not known - source dated 05/03. |
| 5,704,372 |
8.39125 |
10.51421 |
Nigeria |
|
Two persons were reportedly killed, many injured with several houses razed in a fresh outbreak of hostilities between in Tella town, Gassol, Jukun and Hausa-Fulani youth. It was learnt that the argument degenerated into a fight and one of the youths reportedly took a knife and stabbed the other to death before fleeing the area. The killing led to an attack for the opposing side. The fighting totalled two dead. |
| 5,704,375 |
4.92472 |
6.26417 |
Nigeria |
|
Aggrieved drivers in the employ of Bayelsa State Government security outfit protested against their two-month unpaid salaries by blocking the Mbiama-Yenagoa Road. |
| 5,704,378 |
4.92472 |
6.26417 |
Nigeria |
|
Protesting youths from the Obunagha Community of Yenagoa local government area of Bayelsa State forced the shut down the Gbarain-Ubie Gas Gathering Facility belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). The protesting youths accused the SPDC of neglecting their corporate social responsibility on the provision of employment to the youths and construction of basic amenities such as water and hospital. |
| 5,704,383 |
5.54191 |
6.22749 |
Nigeria |
|
Polytechnic students violently protest over a fee increase, burn cars and black roads. Police respond, shooting and injuring three in the process. |
| 5,704,386 |
5.51667 |
5.75 |
Nigeria |
|
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Branch of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria staged a peaceful protest at Warri, Delta State over the purported outsourcing of the maritime haulage system, saying it is a ploy by the Federal Government to lay them off. |
