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/ 18 January 2010
Nigerian security forces on Monday cordoned off a district of the city of Jos where clashes between Christians and Muslims left 10 dead.
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/ 15 January 2010
Standard Bank has expressed an interest in buying one of the nine Nigerian banks rescued by the West African country’s central bank last year.
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/ 14 January 2010
Lawyers have petitioned a Nigerian court to install President Umaru Yar’Adua’s deputy as acting president until the leader returns from hospital.
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/ 13 January 2010
Defending champions Egypt defeated Nigeria 3-1 in their opening Africa Cup of Nations Group C match at the Ombaka Stadium here on Tuesday.
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/ 12 January 2010
Nigeria’s president said he was recovering and hoped to return home in his first interview since going into hospital in Saudi Arabia seven weeks ago.
Abdulmutallab remained a humble, if solitary young man who shunned material possessions and craved knowledge.
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/ 30 December 2009
A fresh surge of violence between Islamist militants and security forces in northern Nigeria has left at least 38 people dead, officials said.
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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.
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/ 23 December 2009
Security forces have deployed in the Niger Delta to disperse former militants protesting over the non-payment of amnesty allowances.
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/ 16 December 2009
Nigeria’s military has destroyed about 600 illegal oil refineries in the Niger Delta and arrested seven oil thieves, the military said on Tuesday.
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/ 9 December 2009
Police in Nigeria carry out hundreds of extrajudicial killings every year, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
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/ 2 December 2009
The Nigerian government on Wednesday flatly rejected calls by dozens of public figures for ailing president Umaru Yar’Adua to resign.
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/ 23 November 2009
Gunmen kidnapped two children on their way to school in Nigeria’s main oil city of Port Harcourt, police said on Monday.
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/ 20 November 2009
History doesn’t favour the chances of African sides in the World Cup, but Phathisani Moyo has reason to believe that next year will be different.
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/ 16 November 2009
Debutants Switzerland were crowned Under-17 World Cup champions on Sunday when they defeated hosts and defending champions Nigeria 1-0 in Abuja.
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/ 31 October 2009
A senior Nigerian politician has warned that the country may break up if efforts to Islamicise the north continue.
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/ 28 October 2009
Nigeria’s plan to give Niger Delta residents a slice of its energy company could be a major deterrent to militancy, the governor of Rivers state said.
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/ 28 October 2009
Kidnapping for ransom, popularised by armed militants in Nigeria’s southern troubled oil hub, is spreading across the vast West African country.
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/ 26 October 2009
Nigeria’s main militant group has indefinitely suspended attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta to allow peace talks with the government.
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/ 20 October 2009
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua has held his first-ever meeting with the leader of the main rebel group in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
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/ 19 October 2009
Nigeria plans to offer inhabitants of Niger Delta 10% of oil and gas ventures in a bid to end a rebellion that has hampered oil output, a report said.
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/ 16 October 2009
A rebel group that has wreaked havoc in Nigeria’s oil hub on Friday ended a 90-day ceasefire, warning the oil industry to brace for fresh attacks.
The main armed group in southern Nigeria said on Wednesday it will resume attacks on the oil industry when its ceasefire expires on October 15.
Nigeria’s Archbishop John Onaiyekan believes that climate change is a matter of justice
Nearly all known militant leaders in Nigeria’s troubled oil hub have given up their weapons in an amnesty deal, raising hopes for stability.
Nigeria’s independence anniversary is a sad reminder of "a dream deferred for too long", President Umaru Yar’Adua said on Thursday.
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/ 29 September 2009
A Chinese state-owned oil company is in talks with Nigeria to acquire stakes in some of the world’s richest oil blocks, a daily said on Tuesday.
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/ 21 September 2009
Members of an Islamist sect that staged an uprising in Nigeria in which at least 800 people died are preparing further attacks, an official says.
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/ 20 September 2009
One of the summer’s biggest blockbusters is not welcome in Nigeria because of its portrayal of Nigerians as gangsters and cannibals.
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/ 16 September 2009
Nigeria’s main militant group said on Wednesday it was extending a two-month-old ceasefire in the oil-producing Niger Delta by 30 days.
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/ 15 September 2009
A top Nigerian presidential aide said on Tuesday he was confident key senior rebel leaders would soon hand over their weapons in return for clemency.
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/ 14 September 2009
Key rebel leaders in the Niger Delta have urged the government to push back its October 4 amnesty deadline by three months to allow for peace talks.