Risk events in Nigeria, July 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.
4307 events were recorded: 3836 conflict events and 471 unrest events.
4307 eventsSources: gdelt · ucdp
4307 events· Nigeria
ConflictUnrest
- Earthquake
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 3,836
- 36 in the list
- Unrest
- 471
- 14 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
4307 events · newest first
- Unrest
Riot in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 4 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ado-Ekiti · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ikeja, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ikeja · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Maiduguri, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Maiduguri · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Potiskum, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Potiskum · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Zaria, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Zaria · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Yenagoa, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Yenagoa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Yenagoa, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Yenagoa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Zaria, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Zaria · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Sapele, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Sapele · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Iwo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Gusau, Nigeria
1 fatality · Gusau · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Gusau, Nigeria
1 fatality · Gusau · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Gusau, Nigeria
3 fatalities · Gusau · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Lafia, Nigeria
1 fatality · Lafia · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Minna, Nigeria
1 fatality · Minna · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Yenagoa, Nigeria
1 fatality · Yenagoa · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Military force used in Bida, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Bida · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Iwo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yenagoa, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Yenagoa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yenagoa, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Yenagoa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Iwo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Mokolo, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Mokolo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military mobilization in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tessaoua, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Tessaoua · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Zaria, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Zaria · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ado-Ekiti · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Enugu, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Enugu · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Efon-Alaaye, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Efon-Alaaye · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Kaduna, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Kaduna · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Gusau, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Gusau · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Efon-Alaaye, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Efon-Alaaye · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Sapele, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Sapele · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sapele, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Sapele · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sapele, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Sapele · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Yenagoa, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Yenagoa · 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.