Rival Bandits groups clashed in Tsamiyar Gino forest, Kankara LGA, Katsina State. The deadly confrontation left two Bandits killed during the inter-gang violence.

At approximately 9:47 pm, a mob in the Mangun district of Mangu Local Government Area, Plateau State, attacked a bus carrying travellers to a wedding ceremony in Qua'an Pan area of Plateau State. The bus, belonging to the Department of Physics at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, was driven by Bashar Abubakar, a 52-year-old employee of the university. The passengers, including children, had lost their way and stopped to ask for directions when the mob descended on them. Twelve people were killed in the ensuing violence, including the driver. The mob first killed the driver, then turned on the other passengers. Twenty others were rescued, many with injuries, according to the Plateau State Police Command. The bus was also set ablaze. The groom, Rabi'a Sani, lost his father, two younger brothers, an uncle, and other loved ones in the incident.

What began as a religious protest against Nigeria hosting the Miss World Beauty Pageant escalated into a catastrophic sectarian conflict. The flashpoint was an article published by ThisDay Newspaper on November 16, which suggested that the Prophet Muhammad would have approved of the pageant and might have chosen a wife from among the contestants. This was deemed blasphemous by many Muslims. Over three days, mobs burned the ThisDay office in Kaduna, leading to a tit-for-tat cycle of violence between Muslim and Christian neighborhoods.

Violent ethno-religious riots erupted between Christians and Muslims in Kaduna, the state capital. The immediate trigger was a dispute over the succession of an Emir, which some sources link to broader tensions from the federal government's consideration of Sharia law.