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/ 25 January 2010
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua has been in Saudi Arabia for two months receiving treatment for a heart condition.
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/ 23 January 2010
Mosque and government officials have pulled more bodies from wells and sewage pits in a village near the Nigerian city of Jos.
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/ 22 January 2010
Nigeria’s Cabinet will decide within 14 days whether President Umaru Yar’Adua is fit enough to govern after a two-month absence for medical treatment.
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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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/ 22 January 2010
The recent disappointing start to the Africa Cup of Nations suggests that there is still a long way to go before the continent can conquer the world.
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/ 21 January 2010
Egypt maintained their faultless Afcon title defence and Nigeria became the latest team to progress to the quarterfinals in Angola on Wednesday.
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/ 21 January 2010
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon is alarmed by the bloody inter-communal clashes in the central Nigerian city of Jos.
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/ 20 January 2010
Nigeria has sent more troops to the troubled city of Jos as clashes between Muslims and Christians, which have left about 300 people dead, spread.
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/ 20 January 2010
Violence between Christians and Muslims has erupted again in Nigeria, and the state government called for military units to control the situation.
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/ 19 January 2010
Authorities slapped a 24-hour curfew on the Nigerian flashpoint city of Jos on Tuesday after deadly clashes between Christians and Muslims.
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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.