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Explosions and gunfire rocked Nigeria's restive northeastern city of Damaturu on Friday, police said, in an area plagued by repeated attacks by Boko Haram.

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Amnesty International on Friday condemned the authorities in Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers state for forcibly evicting thousands of people without warning.

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Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday nominated Aloma Mariam Mukhtar as the next Supreme Court chief justice, the first time a woman has been named to the post.

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SHELLENG, Nigeria (AP) — A hippopotamus that killed two fishermen in Nigeria's northeast has been shot dead, authorities said Tuesday, highlighting how ill-equipped Nigerian wildlife control officials are to protect both wildlife and the communities that surround them.

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Nigeria on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with an American energy firm to build six oil refineries, in a project worth 4.5 billion dollars, a government statement said.

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Attackers killed nine Nigerian construction workers early Monday in the restive northeastern city of Maiduguri, the base of the Boko Haram sect, the army said.

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A Nigerian news channel on Monday broadcast what it said was a recording of a conversation in which the lawmaker who led an explosive oil graft probe arranged a bribe payment from an industry magnate.

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DAMATURU, Nigeria (AP) — Police say security forces have killed suspected sect members during a military raid on their hideout in a besieged city in Nigeria's northeast.

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Gunfire and explosions rocked a northeastern Nigerian city as security forces launched a pre-emptive offensive against Boko Haram Islamists, leaving three dead, police said Sunday.

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Senegal will vote for new lawmakers in an election Sunday set to put more women than ever in the national assembly thanks to a new law which requires an equal gender balance on party lists.

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Gunfire and explosions rocked the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu on Saturday as security forces launched a pre-emptive offensive against Boko Haram Islamists.

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Nigeria's military on Saturday said it had arrested the leader of a gang responsible for a series of attacks on oil installations in the Niger Delta region.

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said Islamist group Boko Haram was seeking to incite a religious crisis by attacking churches in an attempt to destabilise the government.

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Attackers with guns and explosives raided a jail in a restive Nigerian city on Sunday, leaving four prison guards dead and freeing 40 inmates, authorities said.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A top radical Islamist sect member blamed for a deadly Christmas Day church bombing in Nigeria has been killed by security forces, says the sect, which demonstrated in a prison break Sunday that his death has not affected its ability to keep fighting.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A radical sect says a member blamed for a deadly Christmas Day church bombing in Nigeria is dead.

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A blast went off outside a nightclub in the Nigerian capital Abuja hours after the national security adviser and defence minister were sacked amid fears of spiralling violence in the country's north.

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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — An emergency agency says a bomb went off near a popular nightclub in Nigeria's capital.

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An explosion went off outside a nightclub in the Nigerian capital Abuja, breaking windows and damaging cars, but no casualties were reported, the country's emergency agency said on Saturday.

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Nigerian troops have arrested a suspect in the Christmas Day bombings that killed at least 44 people, state television reported, as Washington put three Boko Haram leaders on its global terror list.