EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD
Conflict in Nigeria
This is a verified record, not a live feed. UCDP hand-codes every event from published sources, which takes weeks — the newest event here is from 2026-05-31. For what is happening right now, LEV’s Global Incidents layer carries the machine-coded newswire at about fifteen minutes’ delay.
Between 1 Jan 2024 and 31 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 2,027 events of organised violence in Nigeria from published sources. Their best estimate is 11,839 people killed — and their own range runs 10,078–14,145, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.
What the record holds
UCDP range 10,078–14,145. On 23of these events UCDP’s own bounds do not bracket its own best estimate; the range above spans everything it published rather than hiding the conflict in the figures.
1,799 placed precisely enough to map; 228 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.
Who was doing the killing
The conflicts behind the events
3,614–4,543 · 584 ev
1,147–1,594 · 220 ev
602–1,143 · 35 ev
579–862 · 40 ev
567–733 · 153 ev
487–794 · 120 ev
Where UCDP had not yet established an actor’s identity it records a placeholder rather than a name; those appear here as “unidentified actor”.
The deadliest single event on record
UCDP range 174–204. UCDP's own estimate spans 174 to 204; 174 is its best estimate, not a certainty.
IS - JAS · non-state violence — two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.
Nigeria, elsewhere on LiveEarthViewer
Source
Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University — UCDP GED v26.1 + UCDP Candidate v26_0_1..v26_0_5, released under CC BY 4.0. Coverage ends 31 May 2026. UCDP records Nigeria under the name “Nigeria”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.