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Articles of the author Jon Gambrell Associated Press
Nigeria secret police rearrest escaped sect member
LAGOS: Nigeria's secret police arrested an escaped member of a radical Islamist sect suspected of masterminding a Christmas Day church bombing that killed at least 44 people, an official said Friday. Kabiru Sokoto's escape just a day after his (...)

10 - 02 - 2012
Nigeria military detains French TV journalists
LAGOS: Soldiers guarding a city at the heart of ethnic and religious clashes in Nigeria detained and later threw out journalists working for a French television station trying to cover the ongoing unrest there, the reporters said. The military (...)

07 - 02 - 2012
Mosque prayer service in Nigeria after attacks
KANO: The emir of Kano and the state's top politician offered prayers Monday for the more than 150 people killed in a coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect, though fear kept many Nigerians from coming to the mosque. Emir Ado Bayero, 81, (...)

23 - 01 - 2012
Nigeria troops appear; president offers concession
LAGOS: For the first time since protests erupted over spiraling fuel prices, soldiers on Monday barricaded key roads in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos as the president offered a concession to stem demonstrations that he said were being stoked (...)

16 - 01 - 2012
Rage in Nigeria strike fuels fears of unrest
LAGOS: Thick black smoke and flames rose from the burning roadblock that cut off a highway linking Nigeria's mainland to the islands where the oil-rich nation's wealthy live. The bare-chested young men who live under the bridge said they had had (...)

11 - 01 - 2012
Burning roadblocks at 2nd day of Nigeria strike
LAGOS: Angry youths erected a burning roadblock outside luxury enclaves in Nigeria's commercial capital Tuesday as a paralyzing national strike over fuel prices and government corruption entered its second day. The flaming tires and debris sent (...)

10 - 01 - 2012
Nationwide strike begins in Nigeria over gas costs
LAGOS: A national strike paralyzed much of Nigeria on Monday, with more than 10,000 demonstrators swarming its commercial capital to protest soaring fuel prices and decades of government corruption in the oil-rich country. Some protesters pulled (...)

09 - 01 - 2012
Nigeria leader, UN vow to work on after HQ bombing
ABUJA: Nigeria will bring terrorism "under control" and confront the radical Muslim sect that claimed responsibility for a car bombing at the country's United Nations headquarters, killing at least 19 people, its president vowed Saturday amid the (...)

28 - 08 - 2011
Voter drive shuts schools, angers parents in Nigeria
LAGOS: Simple spelling lessons and multiplication tables still appear on the chalkboards in empty classrooms across Africa's most populous nation as officials take over the country's schools to conduct voter registration drives ahead of the April (...)

27 - 01 - 2011
Questions surround latest bomb attack in Nigeria
ABUJA: Muslim extremists may have planted the bomb that exploded at an army barracks in Nigeria's capital, the country's president said Saturday after the latest attack in a nation beset by violence in recent weeks. No one has claimed (...)

03 - 01 - 2011
Violence shows Christian, Muslim split in Nigeria
LAGOS: Multiple explosions rocked a central Nigerian city, another bomb killed at least four at an army barracks in the capital and a radical Muslim sect burned churches in the northeast. The new violence over the past two weeks highlights the (...)

03 - 01 - 2011
Indian principal kidnapped in Niger Delta
LAGOS: Gunmen in Nigeria's restive southern delta kidnapped the principal of a school sponsored by Exxon Mobil Corp., killing two police officers in a firefight marking the latest abduction in the region, officials said Thursday. Akwa Ibom state (...)

14 - 10 - 2010
Rioters burn police station in northern Nigeria
GAMBORU: Rioters set a police station ablaze in northern Nigeria near where a radical Islamic sect operates, a police spokesman said Tuesday. The attack was similar to one that sparked a wave of violence last year that left more than 700 people (...)

12 - 10 - 2010
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