Kano state, Nigeria: events and estimated deaths in March 2025

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through 31 Aug 2026

UCDP recorded 1 event of organized violence in Kano state, Nigeria in March 2025. The best estimate of deaths in this event is 1. The low estimate is 0 and the high estimate is 1. UCDP counts this death as the death of a civilian. UCDP recorded no events in February 2025.

The report of the country for this month: Nigeria, March 2025.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.
An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date
UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on 2 Oct 2026.

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.8, with data through 31 Aug 2026. The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

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Events

The table lists each event of the month. The CSV file of Nigeria has each event.

Table 1. Kano state, March 2025: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
Date	Place	Sides, as UCDP writes them	Type of violence	Estimated deaths	Low	High
5 Mar 2025	Kano state	Government of Nigeria; Civilians	One-sided	1	0	1

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Kano state: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of March 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes it	Events	Estimated deaths in these events
Government of Nigeria	1	1

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Kano state, newest first: events and estimated deaths
Month	Events	Estimated deaths	Dataset
August 2026	5P	14P	Candidate Events
May 2026	3P	11P	Candidate Events
April 2026	1P	2P	Candidate Events
March 2025	1	1	GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Kano state: all figures

Cite this page

ConflictStats. Kano state, Nigeria: events and estimated deaths in March 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/nigeria/kano-state/month/2025-03/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.8. Data through 31 Aug 2026.

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