Nigeria has been crippled by a nationwide strike as the public expressed anger at rising fuel prices and corruption in government.
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/ 24 December 2011
A faulty pipe from an offshore oil field run by Royal Dutch Shell PLC near Nigeria’s coast spewed crude oil into the ocean for as much as 25 hours.
Nigeria has voted to criminalise gay marriages — instituting prison terms of more than a decade for violations — which has been widely supported.
The US says Boko Haram could attack three luxury hotels in Abuja after a report that more than 100 people have been killed in Nigeria since Friday.
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/ 12 October 2011
Police in Nigeria raided a newspaper office and arrested six reporters for the publication of a letter from the former president to Goodluck Jonathan.
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/ 22 September 2011
In the grainy video, a Nigerian woman repeatedly asks her attackers to kill her as they take turns raping her at a university dormitory.
Whole sections of towns are burned out, the smell of rot is in the air, and people are escaping with whatever they can carry.
The body of late president Umaru Yar’Adua is in an unmarked grave, buried in the sandy soil along with many voters’ hopes of a Muslim candidate.
The violence over the past two weeks highlights the tensions between Nigeria’s two major faiths — Christians and Muslims.
Muslim extremists may have planted the bomb that exploded at an army barracks in Nigeria’s capital, the country’s president said on Saturday.