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.
4283 eventsSources: gdelt · ucdp
4283 events· Nigeria
ConflictUnrest
Events
What is happening now
4283 events · newest first
- Conflict
Assault in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Oyo, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Oyo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Gusau, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Gusau · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Gusau, Nigeria
1 fatality · Gusau · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Wukari, Nigeria
2 fatalities · Wukari · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Enugu, Nigeria
4 fatalities · Enugu · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Lafia, Nigeria
9 fatalities · Lafia · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Lafia, Nigeria
1 fatality · Lafia · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Jalingo, Nigeria
1 fatality · Jalingo · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Wukari, Nigeria
1 fatality · Wukari · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria
17 fatalities · Birnin Kebbi · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Funtua, Nigeria
1 fatality · Funtua · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in N'Djamena, Nigeria
51 fatalities · N'Djamena · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Maiduguri, Nigeria
4 fatalities · Maiduguri · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Assault in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bauchi, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Bauchi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ado-Ekiti · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bauchi, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Bauchi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Okene, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Okene · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Okene, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Okene · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Gusau, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Gusau · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Okene, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Okene · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Oyo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Oyo · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Okene, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Okene · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Bida, Nigeria
Severity 4 · Bida · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Yola, Nigeria
Severity 4 · Yola · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Yola, Nigeria
Severity 4 · Yola · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Akwa Ibom · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Malanville, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Malanville · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Iwo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ebonyi, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ebonyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Iwo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yola, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Yola · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tessaoua, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Tessaoua · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Gusau, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Gusau · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Gusau, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Gusau · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Gusau, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Gusau · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Iwo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Tessaoua, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Tessaoua · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Maiduguri, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Maiduguri · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Iwo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military posture change in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Iwo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military posture change in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Kano · 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.