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Gunfire and explosions erupted in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday as soldiers moved into an area where members of Islamist group Boko Haram were believed to be hiding, residents said.

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Gunfire and explosions erupted in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday as soldiers moved into an area where members of Islamist group Boko Haram were believed to be hiding, residents said.

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The death toll after a devastating plane crash in Nigeria's largest city rose to 159 on Tuesday, as aviation officials suspended Dana Air's licence saying the carrier will not fly until a probe is completed.

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A torrential downpour and strong winds prevented emergency crews from returning Tuesday morning to a devastated neighborhood where a commercial airliner crashed, killing all 153 people aboard the plane and an undetermined number of people on the ground.

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Nigerian rescuers have confirmed the first deaths on the ground caused by a devastating plane crash in the country's largest city, raising the toll to 157, an official said on Tuesday.

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The flight that crashed in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos, killing all 153 people on board, reported both of its engines having failed before it went down, the civil aviation chief said Monday.

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Police dogs sniffed for dead bodies Monday in the rubble of buildings destroyed when an airliner crashed into them, killing all 153 aboard, as cranes lifted away heavy pieces of debris in the grisly aftermath of Nigeria's worst air disaster in nearly two decades.

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Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram on Monday claimed responsibility for a weekend suicide attack on a church in the country's northeast which killed 15 people and wounded 40 others.

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Nigerian rescuers recovered burnt human remains as investigators probed for clues on Monday after a plane slammed into a Lagos neighbourhood, with all 153 on board killed and more feared dead on the ground.

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Nigeria began three days of mourning on Monday after a plane carrying 153 people plunged into a residential area of Nigeria's largest city of Lagos on Sunday, with all those aboard presumed dead.

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled nation.

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Police fired tear gas Friday at several hundred students and unemployed youths in Nigeria's largest city protesting a presidential decision to rename one of the nation's top universities.

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria's largest city used tear gas Friday to try to disperse a crowd of several hundred university students angry at the president's decision to change the name of their school.

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Pirates attacked a Greek-owned oil tanker off Nigeria Friday but failed to hijack the ship after the crew hid in a safe room, the International Maritime Bureau said.

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Students at one of Nigeria's oldest universities protested a presidential announcement renaming the school Tuesday, saying that while the institution has been neglected, its name is still a famous brand they want to hang on to.

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan marked a year since his inauguration Tuesday with fresh pledges to eradicate the Islamist insurgency and corruption that have plagued his tenure so far.

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Gunmen shot dead three card players in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, which has been rocked by deadly attacks blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram in recent months, police said Sunday.

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Gunmen killed a Muslim cleric and a retired prison guard on Saturday in northeastern Nigeria, residents and a medic said, amid a wave of such killings blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram.

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Nigeria's justice minister vowed Tuesday to probe those implicated in a parliamentary report detailing billions of dollars lost through a graft-ridden fuel subsidy programme, as the government faced pressure to act.

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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A man tried to smuggle grenades and rifle ammunition into Nigeria's Information Ministry where ministers were attending a news conference Monday, witnesses and authorities said.