BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — Witnesses say an explosion has struck near a Catholic church in north Nigeria, a region under attack by a radical sect.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Officials say Nigeria's military has conducted door-to-door searches in two north Nigeria cities following repeated and bloody attacks by a radical sect.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's largest airline Arik Air Ltd. halted all its domestic flights indefinitely Thursday as its leaders alleged government corruption made it impossible for the carrier to fly, after officials raided and disrupted its flights without explanation.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's Central Bank has barred the nation's top two airlines from receiving any additional loans over their massive outstanding debts, an official said Friday, as passengers were stranded by the nation's aviation industry crisis in which its largest carrier grounded all its domestic flights.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's army says it has killed two leaders of a radical Islamist sect in the country's northeast.

BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — Officials in Nigeria say gunmen suspected of belonging to a radical Islamist sect shot and killed a retired former leader of the nation's prison system and a state attorney general in two attacks.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Mobile phone carrier MTN Group Ltd. says attackers cut into its fiber-optic lines running through Nigeria's northeast during attacks on telecommunication towers in the region.

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YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian Red Cross officials say they've found 25 corpses after a massive flood washed through northeast Nigeria.

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JOS, Nigeria (AP) — Soldiers opened fire Friday to drive away young Muslims in central Nigeria protesting a film critical of the Prophet Muhammad, witnesses and authorities said, as demonstrators elsewhere in the county's Muslim north burned a U.S. flag.

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's state-run oil company says suspected oil thieves have killed three of its employees near Nigeria's commercial capital.

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At least seven suspected members of the militant group Boko Haram have been killed in a gun battle with the Nigerian army in the country’s north.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A radical Islamist sect claimed responsibility Friday for attacks on mobile phone towers which have crippled communications in Nigeria's northeast, as security forces struggling to control the violence said they had gunned down seven suspected sect members.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A radical Islamist sect that has attacked mosques, churches, schools and government buildings at will in Nigeria appears to have added a new target for its violence: mobile phone towers.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — An association of mobile phone companies says at least 24 towers have been attacked across Nigeria's north, likely causing damage worth millions of dollars.

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's navy on Wednesday retook an oil tanker hijacked off the country's largest city, freeing 23 Indian sailors held hostage by pirates who fled as the navy arrived, a spokesman said.

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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The wife of Nigeria's president remains hospitalized in Germany following a severe bout of food poisoning that's lasted for days, a government official said Tuesday.

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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — ABUJA, Nigeria - A government official tells The Associated Press that the wife of Nigeria's president remains hospitalized in Germany following a severe bout of food poisoning that's lasted for days.

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Nigerians from a region devastated by oil spills on Monday called on the president to take action, more than a year after a UN report said the contamination may require the world's biggest cleanup.

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Nigeria's government has reached out to members of Extremist militant group Boko Haram through back-channel talks in a bid to end an insurgency that has killed hundreds, the president's spokesman said Sunday.

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YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — An emergency management official in northeast Nigeria says 10 people were killed in floods that swept through the region.