Attackers armed with bombs and guns have opened fire at outdoor church services at a Nigerian university on Sunday, killing around 20 people.
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/ 11 February 2012
Two blasts went off outside a customs building in Nigeria’s flashpoint city of Maiduguri, the base of Boko Haram Islamists.
President Goodluck Jonathan has considered enteingr the race for chairperson of the African Union after Gambia pulled out of the running this week.
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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.
The ANC has slammed religious killings between Nigeria’s Christians and Muslims, which have claimed hundreds of lives.
Nationwide protests over fuel prices in Nigeria have ended, but concern was raised over government’s decision to deploy soldiers to the streets.
Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan has cut petrol prices and mass protests were suspended in an effort to continue talks over suspended fuel subsidies.
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/ 13 January 2012
Nigeria’s oil workers have continued their strike against the shelving of its fuel subsidies after talks with trade unions broke down.
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/ 12 January 2012
Nigerian oil workers have threatened to halt production as a strike over fuel prices enters its fourth day and secterian tensions simmer.
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.
Nigeria’s leader Goodluck Jonathan says militant group Boko Haram is the biggest security threat since civil war and has secret backers in government.
Nigeria has been crippled by a nationwide strike as the public expressed anger at rising fuel prices and corruption in government.
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.
Nigeria is braced for mass protests after fuel prices more than doubled at the weekend, amid stark Boko Haram threats against Christians in the north.
Nigeria has begun the new year under a state of emergency in areas targeted by terror attacks as soldiers flood the streets of violence-hit cities.
President Goodluck Jonathan vowed on Saturday to "crush the terrorists" who set off a series of bombs across Nigeria on Christmas Day.
Church leaders in Nigeria say Muslim extremists have made a "declaration of war" on Christians after a series of fatal attacks by Boko Haram.
Six children and an adult have been hurt in a blast at an Arabic school in Nigeria, after deadly Christmas Day attacks on churches around the country.
Nigeria’s Parliament is pushing ahead with a Bill that would harshly crack down on gay rights despite moves from abroad to counter such legislation.
Nigeria has voted to criminalise gay marriages — instituting prison terms of more than a decade for violations — which has been widely supported.
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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.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has pledged cooperation to fight "terrorism" during talks with Niger’s leader.
The radical Muslim sect has shot police officials and clerics from atop motorcycles, torched churches and even freed hundreds of prisoners.
Nigerian police have charged a fiery Muslim cleric with planning a post-poll bombing in April that killed the person assembling the explosive.
African leaders at the UN Aids summit have asked for money to deal with the pandemic and to reach the Millenium Development Goals.
Nigerian cops are investigating a series of blasts that followed President Goodluck Jonathan’s inauguration, including bombs that ri
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in on Sunday following an election seen as the fairest in two decades.
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.
Whole sections of towns are burned out, the smell of rot is in the air, and people are escaping with whatever they can carry.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Thursday the final round of elections would go ahead next week despite rioting.
The support of young voters was crucial in the re-election of Nigeria’s president, who must work to heal a divided nation.