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Abuja,
Friday, May 10, 2013
At least 30 Nigerian security personnel have been killed in an ambush by a local militia in the country’s central Nasarawa state, officials said.
The victims were among the nearly 60 offi...
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NEW DELHI,
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Doctors at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals here claim to have successfully performed “a very risky bilateral Total Hip Replacement (THR) surgery” on a Nigerian national suffering from sickle cell dis...
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Delhi,
disease,
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Maiduguri,
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Seven people were killed in a shootout between Nigerian soldiers and Islamic extremists in the country’s northeast, according to the military. The attack happened on Wednesday night in the...
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Abuja,
April 22, 2013
Fierce fighting between the military and Islamic insurgents in Nigeria’s northern state of Borno on Friday has claimed about 185 lives in a fishing community.A local government chairman Mr...
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MAIDUGURI,
April 10, 2013
Suspected Islamic extremists shot and killed four people involved in education programs, including a man in charge of a program to feed poor students, in northeast Nigeria, officials said. T...
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Abuja,
March 27, 2013
At least 28 people have been killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen, who also set ablaze houses in Nigeria’s northern state of Plateau, officials said.
The gunmen attacked the village...
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria,
March 3, 2013
The leader of the radical Islamic terrorist network Boko Haram has denied in a video that his group is taking part in any peace talks with Nigeria’s government, threatening more violence in a regi...
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Abuja,
February 6, 2013
Four persons, including two soldiers, were killed when a ship belonging to an Indian company was attacked by pirates in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta.
The four persons killed, include...
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Abuja,
December 26, 2012
Gunmen targeted a church service in northern Nigeria, killing six persons including a pastor during a midnight attack on Christmas-eve.
The building housing the Evangelical Church of West...
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Abuja,
November 26, 2012
Two suicide bombers targeted a church inside a military barrack in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and injuring several others as worshipers were returning after a Sunday ma...
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MAIDUGURI,
October 2, 2012
A rescue official says that at least 20 students were killed in an attack outside a school campus in Nigeria’s troubled northeast. The official says that some of the victims were shot and o...
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Abuja,
August 8, 2012
At least 19 worshippers were killed when members of a radical Islamist sect Boko Haram opened indiscriminate fire at an evangelical church during a service in Northern Nigeria today.
The...
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NEW DELHI,
July 26, 2012
Victims of the suspected militant attack to be cremated at Maiduguri
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HYDERABAD,
April 17, 2013
The 10-member gang siphoned off crores from unsuspecting netizens
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Abuja,
April 7, 2013
Eleven people have been killed in a house-to-house raid by gunmen in Nigeria’s northern state of Adamawa, police said.“We have information that 11 people lost their lives in Midlu village in...
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria,
March 3, 2013
A witness and officials say at least 20 people have been killed in an attack by Islamic extremists on a military base in northeast Nigeria. The attack happened on Sunday in the village o...
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BAUCHI (Nigeria),
February 17, 2013
Gunmen attacked a camp for a construction company in rural northern Nigeria, killing a guard and kidnapping seven foreign workers from Britain, Greece, Italy and Lebanon, authorities said Sunday,...
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Abuja,
January 26, 2013
Five Indian sailors kidnapped off Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta and held captive for more than a month have been released by the pirates, a spokesman said on Saturday.
The released me...
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Abuja,
December 22, 2012
Suicide car bombers on Saturday attacked the offices of a Nigerian subsidiary of Indian telecom major Bharti Airtel in the volatile city of Kano besides that of South African firm MTN, killing at...
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria,
October 8, 2012
An Associated Press journalist has seen the dead bodies of more than 30 civilians killed in a retaliatory attack by Nigeria’s military after a bomb attack in the country’s northeast. ...
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ABUJA (Nigeria),
October 1, 2012
Twenty people in southeast Nigeria died when a broken gasoline pipeline caught fire, burning alive those gathering the fuel, a government spokesman said.The fire happened in a remote villag...
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July 28, 2012
The United States has returned 11 cultural artifacts to the government of Nigeria. Authorities said on Thursday that French customs officials had tipped off the U.S. in April 2010 about...
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Abuja,
July 23, 2012
A 10-year-old boy was killed and 10 people were injured in a bomb blast in Nigeria’s northern city of Bauchi, police said today.
“There was an IED explosion in Bayan Gari last evening. A...
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