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Economy Suffers As Boko Haram Infiltrates[IPS] Yaounde - Ahmadou Lamine has been forced to close his business selling fuel imported from Nigeria, known locally as "zoa-zoa", because of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram. [ more ] |
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Boko Haram Plans to Kill Me, Says Nobel Laureate[Leadership] Following a threat by the Boko Haram sect that Professor Wole Soyinka would be their next target for attack, the Nobel laureate has raised the alarm, urging security agencies to take action immediately or risk possible disintegration of the country should the sect carry out its threats. [ more ] |
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Boko Haram Attack Two Police Stations in Kano[This Day] Kano State police command has confirmed that suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamic group on Monday evening launched a bomb and gun attack on Sharada Police station. [ more ] |
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Three Killed in Maiduguri Blasts[Daily Trust] Maiduguri - Three people are feared killed in Maiduguri yesterday as a result of multiple blasts that rocked parts of the Gamboru Market and a nearby pharmaceutical store. [ more ] |
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Eight Ex-Militants Held Over Hotel Bombing in Delta[The Moment] THE Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger-Delta has arrested eight ex-militants who allegedly bombed the Lawconfab Hotel, which served as their temporary home. [ more ] |
Nigeria military detains French TV journalistsSoldiers guarding a city at the heart of ethnic and religious clashes in Nigeria detained and later threw out journalists working for a French television station trying to cover the ongoing unrest there, the reporters said. [ more ] |
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Nigeria dismisses 'oil rebel' claim of pipeline attackNigeria's army said Tuesday that seven suspects linked to a weekend oil pipeline attack must immediately turn themselves in and dismissed a claim of responsibility purported to be from militant group MEND. [ more ] |
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Nigeria lead poisoning 'worst in modern history': HRWA lead poisoning epidemic in Nigeria's north that has killed 400 children and affected thousands is the worst in modern history, but cleanup has not even begun in many areas, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. [ more ] |
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Nigeria names seven behind Eni pipeline blastPORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's military has named seven people it says were behind an attack on an oil pipeline belonging to Italy's Eni on Saturday, and denied a claim that a former separatist militia in the Niger Delta was responsible. A statement purporting to be from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) claimed responsibility, but Nigeria's joint military ... [ more ] |
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Bomb rocks army barracks in Nigeria's KadunaKADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber disguised in military uniform was killed on Tuesday when his car bomb exploded under fire from soldiers outside a military base in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, the army said. It was the latest in a series of attacks on military and other targets to have hit northern regions of Africa's most populous nation in the past months. "The ... [ more ] |
Blasts Rock Central Nigerian CityWitnesses say two separate explosions rocked the central Nigerian city of Kaduna on Tuesday, including one near a military base. [ more ] |
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Bomb attacks strike military bases in NigeriaPeople gather around a minibus struck in an apparent explosion as it sits near a highway overpass in Kaduna, Nigeria, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Two explosions struck Tuesday near army and air force ... [ more ] |
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Bombings hit near military bases in NigeriaLAGOS, Nigeria -; Bomb blasts struck Tuesday near army and air force bases on the outskirts of the central Nigerian city at the heart of riots last year that killed hundreds, officials said. The ... [ more ] |
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Leaders 'appalled' by Nigeria attacksUN leader Ban Ki-moon is "appalled" by the wave of bomb attacks in Nigeria and called for transparent investigations into the scores of deaths, his spokesman said.0 Ban "condemns in ... [ more ] |
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Nigeria needs to quit oil refining businessNigeria President Goodluck Jonathan is treating the country's corruption- infested and notoriously inefficient oil industry as a voodoo surgeon would a gangrened leg: sprinkling herbs instead ... [ more ] |
