Islamist group Boko Haram have been accused of being suspects in the latest attacks on government buildings in the north of Nigeria.
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/ 28 January 2012
Boko Haram has killed hundreds in attacks that authorities have been unable to stop, prompting calls for talks to bring an end to the bloodshed.
Eight people have been killed in Nigeria’s north and a mob has torched an Islamic school in the south amid a fuel strike and rising religious tension.
Hundreds of people have fled their homes in northeast Nigeria in fear, following deadly all-night gun battles between Islamists and security forces.
Gunmen have attacked a police station in Nigeria, killing a teenager and wounding an officer in the first such incident during its state of emergency.
The US has warned of fresh attacks in Nigeria after a wave of deadly bombings claimed by Islamists Boko Haram killed 150 people in the country.
Nigerian cops are investigating a series of blasts that followed President Goodluck Jonathan’s inauguration, including bombs that ri
Fresh bomb blasts jolted Nigeria on Tuesday as the country went to the polls for state governors’ elections.
Bomb blasts have killed at least three people in north-east Nigeria, police said on Monday, in the latest unrest to hit Africa’s most populous nation.
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Thursday that deadly post-poll unrest recalled the build-up to the Nigerian civil war.