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/ 13 November 2010
Nigeria’s main militant group in the oil-rich southern delta on Friday released a list of hostages it had taken from an attack on an offshore oil rig.
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/ 25 September 2010
Nigerian authorities opened the gates at two dams in the rain-soaked north, sending a flood into a neighbouring state that has displaced millions.
Nigerian cops use illegal arrests and torture to demand bribes from the innocent, sometimes killing people over as little as 13 cents, says a report.
A leader of a radical Muslim sect that started a rampage that left 700 people dead in Nigeria has allegedly issued threat calling for new violence.
More than 160 villagers from Nigeria’s north died from lead poisoning while trying to leach gold from rock deposits.
Royal Dutch Shell spilled nearly 14Â 000 tonnes of crude oil into the creeks of the Niger Delta last year, the company has announced.
The US Navy has been training naval forces of West African nations to fight piracy.
More than 200 bodies — many of them women and children — lay in the streets of a Nigerian town after a renewed spate of Christian-Muslim violence.
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/ 22 January 2010
Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo says the country’s sick leader should follow the "path of honour" and resign if he is too ill to lead.
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/ 30 December 2009
Internet postings purportedly written by a Nigerian charged with trying to bomb a US airliner on Christmas Day suggest a religious and lonely man.