Jacob Zuma has condemned a series of bomb attacks in Nigeria and conveyed his condolences to his Nigerian counterpart, President Goodluck Jonathan.
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/ 26 December 2011
Christian shops were burnt and hundreds of residents sought to flee one violence-torn city in Nigeria’s north-east, residents have said.
Nigeria is probing a wave of Christmas Day bombings that killed at least 40, including one blast that ripped through a crowd of worshippers.
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/ 25 December 2011
Boko Haram says it planted bombs that exploded on Christmas Day at churches in Nigeria, one of which killed at least 27 people just outside Abuja.
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/ 25 December 2011
A bomb has exploded in a Catholic church on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria, with a shortage in ambulances hampering the evacuation process.
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/ 24 December 2011
The death toll following violence over the past two days in northern Nigeria has risen sharply from seven to 46, medical sources have said.
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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.
Latest Shell oil spill is comparable to the Exxon Mobil spill of 1998, say authorities as emergency measures are put in place to protect the coast.
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/ 13 December 2011
A powerful explosion has rocked the violence-torn Nigerian city of Maiduguri, epicentre of violence blamed on the Islamist sect known as Boko Haram.
South African President Jacob Zuma visited the West African nation of Benin on Sunday, a day after criticising Nato’s bombing campaign in Libya.
President Jacob Zuma has said at an AU panel that Nato’s campaign in Libya left a scar on the continent that will take a long time to heal.
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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/ 16 November 2011
About 93 Nigerian women and two babies have been rescued from "sex slavery" in Mali, and nine people suspected of human trafficking arrested.
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/ 14 November 2011
Shell says it’s dealing with a new oil spill in Nigeria’s onshore delta, the latest in a string of leaks it blames on sabotage attacks and oil theft.
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/ 12 November 2011
A Nigerian youth leader says armed police officers stopped his group’s planned protest in Abuja over a state proposal to remove fuel subsidies.
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/ 11 November 2011
The US army provided counter-insurgency training to Nigerian troops battling a rise in attacks by Islamist militants, the Nigerian military reveals.
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.
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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/ 6 November 2011
Muslims have marked Eid al-Adha, which ends the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, overshadowed by the Arab Spring and attacks in Africa and Central Asia.
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/ 5 November 2011
Several explosions ripped through Nigeria’s troubled northeastern city of Maiduguri, including a suicide bomb attack on military offices.
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/ 30 October 2011
Nigeria is the continent’s most populist country with around 160-million people, and the UN estimates it could grow to around 400-million by 2050.
In Nigeria, every other youngster wants to be a rap or hip-hop star. And for those who make it these days the rewards can be greater than ever.
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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.
Nigeria marked 51 years of independence on Saturday amid a security lockdown over fears of fresh attacks by an Islamist sect.
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/ 27 September 2011
Libya are likely to be replaced as 2013 Africa Cup of Nations hosts this week, with Algeria, Nigeria and SA prepared to take over the tournament.
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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.
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/ 10 September 2011
Fresh overnight attacks killed at least 15 people in Nigeria, the latest in a wave of recent killings in an area beset by sectarian violence.
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/ 1 September 2011
At least 102 people were killed when a dam burst and several bridges were swept away after torrential rain and flooding in south-west Nigeria.
Nigerian authorities say the man behind the attack on UN headquarters in Abuja last week is the al-Qaeda-linked Boko Haram sect’s Mamman Nur.
Heavy rains, that caused a dam to overflow in south western Nigeria and led to houses being submerged, has killed 20 people and displaced thousands.
Families are searching the rubble from a bomb blast at UN headquarters in Nigeria for loved ones.