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Mobs Leave Charred Corpses, Fear in North Nigeria

KADUNA, Nigeria -- The mobs poured into the streets by the thousands in this dusty city separating Nigeria's Muslim north and Christian south, armed with machetes and poison-tipped arrows to unleash their rage after the oil-rich nation's presidential election. Muslim rioters burned homes, churches and police stations in...

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Commando Raid Frees 19 Hostages in Nigeria

(Nov. 18) -- Nigerian commandos have rescued 19 hostages in an assault the military says is a turning point in how the government deals with insurgents who have been kidnapping workers and blowing up pipelines in one of the world's richest oil regions. According to military officials, no one was killed in the raid...

Muslim Sect Wages War on Nigerian Government

(Oct. 20) -- A radical Islamist sect in northern Nigeria has intensified its anti-government campaign, shooting dead a policeman in the city of Maiduguri -- at least the 13th lawman to be murdered by the group in the past three months, according to local authorities. Motorcycle-riding gunmen from the Boko Haram movement...

Nigerian Spills Make Valdez Look Like Drop in Bucket

(May 23) -- Now a month old, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill still dominates the headlines, with politicians, pundits and ordinary people debating who's to blame and wondering if it will eclipse the Exxon Valdez as the worst spill in U.S. history. Meanwhile, Nigeria reportedly leaks as much oil as the Valdez -- which spewed...

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University of Lagos Protest: Police Fire Tear Gas

Police fired tear gas Friday at several hundred students and unemployed youths in Nigeria's largest city protesting a presidential decision to rename one of the nation's top universities.

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06/02/12 Jonathan Vs Salami: Why Adoke chose to play âthe... Source: Vanguard - Nigeria Following his uncanny role in the continued suspension of the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, penultimate week, took a swipe at the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN.
06/02/12 Buharis Temper Tantrums Source: Newswatch Once again, the political tension in Nigeria was unnecessarily raised by a few notches in the last two weeks following what President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, regarded as a "provocative" statement from General Muhammadu Buhari, former military head of state.
06/02/12 Almajiri Schools - Right Step, Little Impact Source: AllAfrica.com The decision by the Federal Government to build new schools for street children (Almajirai) in parts of Nigeria has been widely hailed as a step in the right direction but equally dismissed as an action whose impact can take years to cure a malignant problem that has been staring the people on the face.
06/02/12 Abiola Varsity - Police to Treat Protesters... Source: AllAfrica.com The commissioner, Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Umar Manko, has said that students of the Moshood Abiola University, who are still protesting the change of name of their institution from the University of Lagos, will henceforth be treated as criminals.
06/02/12 FG Behind Insecurity in the North - El-Rufai, Mato Source: AllAfrica.com Former Federal Capital Territory minister Nasir el-Rufai yesterday accused the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan of being behind rising insecurity across the country and the spate of bombings in the north.