20120409
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A car bomb exploded along a busy roadway Sunday morning in a central Nigeria city, killing at least 38 people in the latest attack on a region beset by religious, ethnic and political violence, an official said.

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A car bomb blast outside a church in northern Nigeria on Easter Sunday killed at least 20 people and put the country on alert over fears of further attacks, rescue officials and residents said.

20120409
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A car bomb killed at least five people Sunday in a central Nigerian city that has seen hundreds die in religious and ethnic violence in recent years, amid warnings by diplomats of possible terrorist attacks during the Easter holiday, officials said.

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A large bomb exploded near a church in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna as Easter Sunday services were being held, killing at least two people, residents and police said.

20120407
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — After years of delays, Nigeria's president signed into law the country's first Freedom of Information bill last year, supposedly cutting away old colonial-era secrecy laws and allowing the public access to government documents in this democracy for the first time.

20120407
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Nigerian authorities have recovered a cache of arms, including explosives and rocket launchers, in two separate raids in the restive northern city of Gombe and arrested six suspects, a senior official said.

20120403
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A tanker crashed then later exploded and caught fire in northern Nigeria, killing at least 12 people who had rushed to the scene to scoop fuel from the damaged vehicle, a local official said Monday.

20120402
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Suspected members of Islamist group Boko Haram attacked three police stations in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, burning two of them down in the latest of scores of such assaults, police said.

20120326
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A former police officer and two of his friends were killed Sunday in a shootout in Nigeria that also killed three suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamist group.

20120324
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Nigeria's finance minister Friday joined the race for the top World Bank job, backed by Africa's leading economies in a push for greater influence at global financial bodies dominated by rich nations.

20120324
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Nigeria's Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who is angling for the World Bank's top job, is a respected economist who has spent most of the last 30 years at the bank.

20120321
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A UN-linked body launched a campaign in Nigeria on Tuesday aimed at preventing deaths due to toxic smoke from rudimentary cookstoves, one of the developing world's worst public health threats.

20120318
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A respected cleric mediating in peace talks between the Nigerian government and the Boko Haram Islamist sect announced Saturday he was quitting the talks, accusing the government of insincerity.

20120318
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Gunmen raided a mainly Christian village in Nigeria's restive Kaduna State, killing 10 people, including a pastor and injuring four others, police said Saturday.

20120317
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Nigeria's government and Islamist group Boko Haram have been in indirect talks to end deadly violence blamed on the extremists, two sources familiar with the discussions said Friday.

20120314
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Suspected members of Islamist group Boko Haram opened fire on a checkpoint in northern Nigeria on Tuesday, with two policemen and a soldier feared dead, a police source and residents said.

20120313
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Gunmen shot dead three Christians in Nigeria near the flashpoint city of Jos, hours after 10 people were killed in a suicide bombing and related violence at a church, an official said Monday.

20120312
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JOS, Nigeria (AP) — A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church Sunday in the middle of Mass, killing at least 10 people in the blast and the retaliatory violence that followed after the latest assault targeting a church in a central Nigerian city plagued by unrest, officials said.

20120312
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Plans to free two Western hostages were well underway when they were killed during a failed rescue bid in Nigeria, a spokesman for the kidnappers told the Mauritanian news agency ANI.