Risk events in Nigeria, May 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.
4283 events were recorded: 3863 conflict events and 420 unrest events.
4283 eventsSources: gdelt
4283 events· Nigeria
Conflict
- Earthquake
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 3,863
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 420
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Signal
How the picture is moving
Bars: this period · Markers: 90-day daily baseline × days
Events by type
Against the 90-day baseline
Events per day
| Date | Earthquake | Disaster | Conflict | Unrest | Advisory | Fire hotspots |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 18 | 0 | 393 |
| 2026-05-02 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 11 | 0 | 334 |
| 2026-05-03 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 12 | 0 | 304 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 0 | 105 | 24 | 0 | 76 |
| 2026-05-05 | 0 | 0 | 129 | 15 | 0 | 83 |
| 2026-05-06 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 15 | 0 | 251 |
| 2026-05-07 | 0 | 0 | 110 | 12 | 0 | 180 |
| 2026-05-08 | 0 | 0 | 113 | 13 | 0 | 109 |
| 2026-05-09 | 0 | 0 | 107 | 9 | 0 | 336 |
| 2026-05-10 | 0 | 0 | 130 | 7 | 0 | 258 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 0 | 167 | 10 | 0 | 525 |
| 2026-05-12 | 0 | 0 | 151 | 5 | 0 | 198 |
| 2026-05-13 | 0 | 0 | 161 | 15 | 0 | 258 |
| 2026-05-14 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 18 | 0 | 209 |
| 2026-05-15 | 0 | 0 | 108 | 10 | 0 | 25 |
| 2026-05-16 | 0 | 0 | 221 | 11 | 0 | 139 |
| 2026-05-17 | 0 | 0 | 180 | 5 | 0 | 128 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 0 | 213 | 26 | 0 | 54 |
| 2026-05-19 | 0 | 0 | 170 | 21 | 0 | 61 |
| 2026-05-20 | 0 | 0 | 132 | 13 | 0 | 65 |
| 2026-05-21 | 0 | 0 | 111 | 10 | 0 | 136 |
| 2026-05-22 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 12 | 0 | 61 |
| 2026-05-23 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 17 | 0 | 143 |
| 2026-05-24 | 0 | 0 | 115 | 10 | 0 | 87 |
| 2026-05-25 | 0 | 0 | 146 | 21 | 0 | 40 |
| 2026-05-26 | 0 | 0 | 116 | 20 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-05-27 | 0 | 0 | 117 | 7 | 0 | 58 |
| 2026-05-28 | 0 | 0 | 112 | 9 | 0 | 40 |
| 2026-05-29 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 15 | 0 | 118 |
| 2026-05-30 | 0 | 0 | 107 | 12 | 0 | 110 |
| 2026-05-31 | 0 | 0 | 118 | 17 | 0 | 71 |
Events
What is happening now
4283 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Okene, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Okene · 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
Assault in Potiskum, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Potiskum · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oyo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Oyo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Yola, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Yola · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Okene, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Okene · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Gusau, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Gusau · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Zaria, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Zaria · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Zaria, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Zaria · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Enugu, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Enugu · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bauchi, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Bauchi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Enugu, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Enugu · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Tessaoua, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Tessaoua · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ikeja, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ikeja · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Okene, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Okene · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yenagoa, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Yenagoa · 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
Assault in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Mokolo, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Mokolo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ado-Ekiti · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yola, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Yola · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Gusau, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Gusau · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Okene, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Okene · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Zaria, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Zaria · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kontagora, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Kontagora · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nsukka, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Nsukka · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Maiduguri, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Maiduguri · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Zaria, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Zaria · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ondo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ondo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Gusau, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Gusau · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Efon-Alaaye, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Efon-Alaaye · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Zaria, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Zaria · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Enugu, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Enugu · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Numan, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Numan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Bauchi, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Bauchi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yola, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Yola · 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.