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Articles of the author Habiba Salihu
14 dead in Nigeria police station attack
Abuja (dpa) – At least 14 people have been killed in a gun attack on a police station in northern Nigeria, state television said Saturday. Gunmen carrying explosives attacked the station in the city of Gombe late Friday, according to police (...)

25 - 02 - 2012
Nigeria's Boko Haram attacks market, 30 people feared dead
Abuja (dpa) – Islamist militants are suspected of killing up to 30 people during a fierce battle with soldiers at a popular market in Maiduguri, north-east Nigeria, according to reports Tuesday citing witnesses. Suspected members of the Boko (...)

21 - 02 - 2012
Blast at Nigeria church injures two
Abuja (dpa) – A bomb attack outside a church in Abuja on Sunday, suspected to be by Nigeria's Boko Haram sect, has left at least two people seriously injured, the country's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said. Several other (...)

20 - 02 - 2012
Boko Haram storms Nigeria prison to free members
Abuja (dpa)- Members of the Islamist militia Boko Haram have stormed a prison in central Nigeria, killing a guard and setting inmates free, witnesses told dpa Thursday. The incident, which took place late Wednesday in Koton Karfe, in central Kogi (...)

16 - 02 - 2012
Blast kills policeman in Nigeria's Kaduna
Abuja (dpa) – An explosion on Tuesday in a residential area in the north-central Nigerian city of Kaduna killed a policeman, witnesses and local media said. The blast, barely a week after a suicide bomber targeted military buildings in the same (...)

14 - 02 - 2012
Nigeria confirms death of 12 Boko Haram members
Abuja (dpa) – The Nigerian Army late Monday confirmed the death of 12 Boko Haram members in a gun battle with the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Maiduguri, where the headquarters of the sect is located. The JTF, which comprises army and police (...)

14 - 02 - 2012
Boko Haram spokesman says peace talks possible
Abuja (dpa) – A spokesman for radical Islamist militia Boko Haram said it is ready to hold peace talks with Nigerian authorities if the government releases members held prisoner. The spokesman, known only as Abul Qaqa, said in a telephone hookup (...)

11 - 02 - 2012
Nigeria police rearrest escaped Christmas Day blast suspect
Abuja (dpa) – Nigerian police on Friday rearrested a man charged with masterminding a series of attacks that killed at least 50 people on December 25. Kabiru Sokotu, a key suspect in the so-called Christmas Day bomb blast, was caught at Nigeria's (...)

10 - 02 - 2012
Nanny kidnaps South African baby, demands ransom
Johannesburg (dpa) – South African police were hunting Tuesday for a nanny who is believed to have kidnapped a six-month-old baby and was demanding the mother pay a ransom to have her child back. According to police, the nanny sent a text message (...)

07 - 02 - 2012
Fresh Islamist attacks hit two northern Nigerian cities
Abuja (dpa) – Islamist group Boko Haram hit Nigeria's north-western city of Kano with a fresh wave of attacks targeting police stations and civilians Monday night, security sources said. The sources told dpa that two police stations, where more (...)

07 - 02 - 2012
Death toll rises in Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria
Abuja (dpa) – Three people have died in a fresh wave of bomb blasts and gun attacks that targeted two northern Nigerian cities, police said Tuesday. Radical Islamist group Boko Haram said it was behind the Monday night attacks. Police told dpa (...)

07 - 02 - 2012
Nigerian militants claim attack on oil pipeline
Abuja (dpa) – Militants in southern Nigeria claimed to have blown up a pipeline belonging to the Agip Oil Company, and threatened more attacks. The oil company has not confirmed the attack, which the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger (...)

06 - 02 - 2012
Nigeria military says 11 militants killed
Abuja (dpa) – At least 11 members of the Boko Haram sect were killed in combat with government troops in Maiduguri, an army official said. The militants attacked a check point but were overpowered by security forces, the commander of the Joint (...)

29 - 01 - 2012
Death toll rises to 180 in Nigeria blasts, say hospital sources
Monrovia/Abuja (dpa) – The death toll two days after coordinated bomb attacks in the northern Nigerian city of Kano had risen to 180, hospital sources said Sunday. Officials put the death toll at 120, but medics at one of Kano's largest hospitals (...)

22 - 01 - 2012
Death toll rises to 165 in Nigeria blasts
Monrovia/Abuja (dpa) – At least 165 people were killed in coordinated bomb attacks in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, witnesses and hospital sources said late Saturday. Medics said the death toll was expected to climb further. The streets (...)

22 - 01 - 2012
Death toll rises to 10 in northern Nigeria bombings
Abuja (dpa) – The confirmed death toll from coordinated bombings in the northern Nigerian city of Kano climbed to 10 on Saturday, officials said. Paramedics told dpa that the death toll from the Friday afternoon attacks could rise. Many of those (...)

21 - 01 - 2012
Nigeria to reduce petrol prices to end strike
Abuja (dpa) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday announced he would reduce petrol prices, as part of negotiations with unions who went on strike and took to the streets last week. The prices would be reduced from 140 naira (0.90 (...)

16 - 01 - 2012
Nigerian unions suspend strike after petrol prices reduced
Abuja (dpa) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday announced he would reduce petrol prices by partially reinstating subsidies, a decision that prompted unions to suspend a nationwide strike which was crippling the country. The cost of a (...)

16 - 01 - 2012
No deal on Nigeria strike, oil exports to remain unaffected
Abuja (dpa) – Trade unions in Nigeria said Sunday they would not go ahead with plans to disrupt oil exports, despite failing to reach a deal with the Nigerian government over rising petrol prices. Unions last week took to the streets for five (...)

15 - 01 - 2012
Thousands displaced in wake of Nigerian mosque attack
Abuja (dpa) – More than 8,000 people have been displaced after an attack yesterday on a mosque in the southern Nigerian city of Benin, the Nigerian Red Cross told dpa Wednesday. The attack – in which 25 people stormed the mosque and a Koranic (...)

11 - 01 - 2012
Eight killed in Boko Haram attack on a bar in northeast Nigeria
Abuja (dpa) – Militant Islamist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility Wednesday for an attack on a bar in Potiskum, in north-eastern Nigeria, which killed eight people. Members of the sect stormed the bar and opened fire at around 9pm (2000 (...)

11 - 01 - 2012
Mosque attack kills one in southern Nigeria
Abuja (dpa) – An attack on a mosque in the southern Nigerian city of Benin killed at least one Tuesday, police sources said. A police source told dpa that several people were injured in the attack. The unnamed source said young people (...)

10 - 01 - 2012
6 dead in Nigeria church shooting
Abuja (dpa) – Another in a series of attacks on Nigerian Christian churches left six dead and 10 people injured, according to reports Friday from the north-eastern city of Gombe. The Thursday night attack came barely a day after two bombs went (...)

06 - 01 - 2012
Update: 16 killed, 12 wounded in northern Nigeria Christian shooting
Monrovia/Abuja (dpa) – At least 16 people were killed and 12 wounded in a shoot-out at a town hall in the northern Nigerian town of Mubi, television reports said Friday. The attack reportedly targeted southern Nigerians who were visiting the (...)

06 - 01 - 2012
One killed in Nigeria fuel hike protests
Abuja (dpa)- One man was killed in clashes with police, as protests raged across Nigeria Tuesday in the wake of the government's New Year's Day decision to scrap fuel subsidies. Protesters had taken to the streets in the capital Abuja, as well as (...)

04 - 01 - 2012
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