Risk events in Nigeria, August 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.
2665 events were recorded: 2322 conflict events and 343 unrest events.
2665 eventsSources: gdelt
2665 events· Nigeria
ConflictUnrest
- Earthquake
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 2,322
- 33 in the list
- Unrest
- 343
- 17 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
2665 events · newest first
- Unrest
Riot in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 4 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Bida, Nigeria
Severity 4 · Bida · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Enugu, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Enugu · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Ikeja, Nigeria
Severity 4 · Ikeja · 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 Afikpo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Afikpo · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bida, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Bida · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tessaoua, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Tessaoua · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bida, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Bida · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Iwo · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Cotonou, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Cotonou · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Iwo · 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 mobilization in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Iwo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Iwo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Iwo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Zaria, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Zaria · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bauchi, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Bauchi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kano, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Kano · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Ile-Ife · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Gusau, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Gusau · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Zaria, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Zaria · 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 posture change in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Potiskum, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Potiskum · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military posture change in Bauchi, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Bauchi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bauchi, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Bauchi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yenagoa, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Yenagoa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Numan, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Numan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Ogbomoso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Malanville, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Malanville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Funtua, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Funtua · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Sokoto, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Sokoto · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Iwo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sokoto, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Sokoto · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Sokoto, Nigeria
Severity 2 · Sokoto · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tessaoua, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Tessaoua · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lafia, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Lafia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Iwo, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Iwo · 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
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.