Risk events in Nigeria, April 2026
This page tracks significant risk events worldwide in near real time — earthquakes, disaster alerts, armed conflict, unrest and government travel-advisory changes — combining data from the USGS, GDACS, NASA EONET, UCDP, GDELT, ACLED and official travel-advisory sources. Browse what is happening now, or open the monthly and yearly archive for any country.
3950 events were recorded: 3625 conflict events and 325 unrest events.
3950 eventsSources: gdelt
3950 events· Nigeria
ConflictUnrest
- Earthquake
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 3,625
- 39 in the list
- Unrest
- 325
- 11 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
3950 events · newest first
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ile-Ife · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Iwo · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Jalingo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Jalingo · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Enugu, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Enugu · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Benin City, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Benin City · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Gusau, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Gusau · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Zaria, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Zaria · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nsukka, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Nsukka · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Enugu, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Enugu · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Maiduguri, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Maiduguri · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Sokoto, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Sokoto · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Birnin Kebbi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ondo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ondo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bida, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Bida · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ile-Ife · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yola, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Yola · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Maiduguri, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Maiduguri · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Makurdi, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Makurdi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Iseyin, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Iseyin · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Gusau, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Gusau · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Efon-Alaaye, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Efon-Alaaye · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ado-Ekiti · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Mass violence in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 4 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bida, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Bida · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yola, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Yola · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Zaria, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Zaria · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bida, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Bida · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Birnin Kebbi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bida, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Bida · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Numan, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Numan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sokoto, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Sokoto · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Iwo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Gusau, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Gusau · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bauchi, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Bauchi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Iwo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Okene, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Okene · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Bida, Nigeria
Severity 4 · Bida · Source: gdelt
Reference
What these risk types mean
- Earthquake
- Significant earthquakes (magnitude 4.5+) reported by the USGS.
- Disaster
- Active floods, cyclones, volcanoes, droughts and wildfires reported by GDACS and NASA EONET.
- Conflict
- Armed conflict events above a minimum severity or fatality floor, from UCDP and GDELT.
- Unrest
- Unrest events — protests, strikes, riots — above a minimum severity or fatality floor, from GDELT and ACLED.
- Advisory
- Official government travel-advisory level changes for a country.