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Nigeria : Nigerian president sacks police chief, deputies
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| on 2012/1/26 10:39:52 |
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Reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the chief of police and his six deputies, the presidency said on Wednesday, a week after the main suspect in a Christmas Day bomb attack escaped from police custody.
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Nigeria : Boko Haram got al Qaeda bomb training, Niger says
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| on 2012/1/26 10:38:11 |
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Reuters
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters)- Members of the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram have received explosives training at al Qaeda camps in the Sahel region of northern Africa, Niger's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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Nigeria : Blast destroys police station in north Nigeria
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| on 2012/1/26 10:37:13 |
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Reuters
KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - A powerful blast destroyed a police station in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, a senior police official said, the latest in a series of blasts in the country's second biggest city since Islamist insurgents stepped up their campaign there.
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Nigeria : Fresh attack on police in troubled Nigeria's Kano city
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| on 2012/1/25 11:29:26 |
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AFP
Gunmen threw explosives and opened fire at a police station in a fresh attack in Nigeria's embattled city of Kano on Tuesday, residents said, four days after coordinated bombings and shootouts killed 185 people there.
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Nigeria : Nigeria security forces kill 2 after sect attack
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| on 2012/1/25 11:16:52 |
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AP
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — A young man in traditional robes sobbed Tuesday as he stood in a pool of blood, surrounded by bullet-scarred walls left behind after a security raid in this northern Nigeria city recently assaulted by a radical Islamist sect.
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Nigeria : Nigerian police find bomb-filled cars in Kano
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| on 2012/1/24 9:03:36 |
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Reuters
KANO/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian police said they found cars and vans filled with explosives in the northern city of Kano on Monday, three days after Islamist sect Boko Haram carried out a deadly attack there.
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Nigeria : Nigerian police say four Boko Haram members killed
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| on 2012/1/24 9:02:30 |
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Reuters
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian police said on Monday they shot dead four members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram in the northeast city of Maiduguri and recovered explosive materials stored in a car, two days after the sect carried out its most deadly attacks.
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Nigeria : Nigeria president says arrests made over deadly attacks
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| on 2012/1/23 11:14:57 |
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AFP
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said Sunday that arrests have been made over a wave of attacks in the city of Kano that killed at least 166 people and vowed to hunt down the backers of Islamist group Boko Haram.
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Nigeria : Death toll in Nigeria attack rises, stuns leader
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| on 2012/1/23 11:13:03 |
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AP
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — People in this north Nigeria city once wore surgical masks to block the dust swirling through its sprawling neighborhoods, but swarming children hawked the masks for pennies apiece Sunday to block the stench of death at a hospital overflowing with the dead following a coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect.
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Nigeria : At least 150 killed in Nigeria Kano attacks
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| on 2012/1/23 11:10:49 |
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AP
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — More than 150 people were killed in a series of coordinated attacks by a radical Islamist sect in north Nigeria's largest city, according to an internal Red Cross document seen Sunday by an Associated Press reporter.
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Nigeria : Attacks in Nigeria's Kano kill over 100: security source
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| on 2012/1/22 13:28:01 |
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Reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - More than 100 people were killed in bomb attacks and gunfights in Nigeria's second largest city Kano late on Friday, a senior local government security source told Reuters, in the deadliest coordinated strike claimed by Islamist sect Boko Haram to date.
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Nigeria : 4 bombs strike north Nigeria's main city
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| on 2012/1/21 11:13:05 |
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AP
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Four bombs exploded outside of police stations Friday in the largest city in Nigeria's Muslim north, causing panic in the streets as people fled for their lives.
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Nigeria : 2 bombs strike north Nigeria's main city
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| on 2012/1/21 11:07:47 |
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AP
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Two bombs exploded outside of police stations Friday in the largest city in Nigeria's Muslim north, causing panic in the streets as people fled for their lives.
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Nigeria : US citizen kidnapped in Nigeria's oil delta
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| on 2012/1/21 11:06:15 |
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AP
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Assailants kidnapped a U.S. citizen leaving a bank in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta Friday, the first such attack targeting foreigners in the restive region for several months.
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Nigeria : Nigeria puts $310,000 bounty on escaped bomb suspect
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| on 2012/1/20 19:12:39 |
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Reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's police are offering a 50 million naira reward for information leading to the recapture of the main suspect in a Christmas Day bomb attack, who escaped within 24 hours of his arrest this week.
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Nigeria : Nigeria Christmas church bomb suspect escapes
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| on 2012/1/19 11:02:22 |
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Reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - The main suspect in a Christmas Day bomb attack on a church just outside Nigeria's capital escaped within 24 hours of his arrest and the police commissioner in charge has been suspended, police said on Wednesday.
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Nigeria : Police: Nigeria bomb suspect arrested, escapes
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| on 2012/1/18 12:37:46 |
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AP
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The suspected mastermind of the Christmas Day bombing of a Catholic church in Nigeria escaped custody after being arrested in the country's capital, police acknowledged Tuesday — an embarrassment for a nation struggling to contain increasingly bloody sectarian attacks by a radical Islamist sect.
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