Post-election riots in Nigeria left many dead, thousands displaced and hundreds wounded on Tuesday amid claims that bodies had been thrown into wells.
An outbreak of post-poll rioting in northern Nigeria left many dead overnight, after President Goodluck Jonathan appealed for unity following his win.
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/ 29 September 2010
Thousands of people from more than 30 flooded villages in northwestern Nigeria faced shortages of food and shelter on Wednesday.
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/ 9 September 2010
Police on Thursday hunted hundreds of inmates who escaped when suspected Islamists used machine guns and bombs in a Nigerian prison attack.
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/ 20 January 2010
Nigeria has sent more troops to the troubled city of Jos as clashes between Muslims and Christians, which have left about 300 people dead, spread.
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/ 28 December 2009
Abubakar Muhammad Barinjimi is in the twilight of his life at 88 but, sitting in his primary school classroom, he’s got plans for further education.
Nigerian authorities swept dozens of bodies into mass graves on Sunday in the grisly aftermath of last week’s Islamist uprising that killed hundreds.
Nigerian forces have shot dead an Islamist leader captured after an uprising that led to hundreds of deaths.
Members of a Nigerian Islamist fundamentalist sect fled the northern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday after the military overran their base.
Nigeria’s president on Tuesday placed security forces on maximum alert after two days of battles with radical Islamists in the north.