20110906
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JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 11 people have been killed in spiraling violence between Christian and Muslim youths in central Nigeria's volatile Plateau state since Sunday night, authorities said on Monday.

20110905
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JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Muslim youths hacked a Christian family of eight to death in Nigeria's volatile Plateau state on Sunday, local officials said, continuing a week of violence that has pitted gangs from the two faiths against each other and civilians.

20110831
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian authorities investigating last week's fatal bombing of the U.N. headquarters arrested two members of Islamist sect Boko Haram a week before the attack and said they suspect a third member with an al Qaeda connection led the plot.

20110820
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Members of a radical Nigerian Islamist sect shot dead three policemen and a civilian after breaking into the house of one of the officers in the northeastern town of Maiduguri on Friday, police said.

20110820
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan added billionaire businessman Aliko Dangote and the managing director of Access Bank, Aigboje Imoukhuede, to his newly formed economic management team, bringing more private sector weight to his line-up.

20110816
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A man was shot dead by Nigerian police on Monday in a failed attempt to bomb police headquarters in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, a day before a report on Islamist sect attacks in the region is submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan.

20110815
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Former World Bank managing director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will arrive back in Nigeria to be sworn in as finance minister this week, the presidency said on Sunday, a month after the rest of President Goodluck Jonathan's cabinet was announced.

20110813
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria distributed 616 billion naira from federal accounts to its three tiers of government for July, up by 1.6 percent from the previous month, the accountant general said on Friday.

20110812
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's ministry of defence said on Thursday it will investigate military misconduct in the remote northeast of the country where a Joint Task Force (JTF) has been criticised for its handling of attacks by a radical Islamist sect.

20110811
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KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - The parents of four Nigerian children who died during a 1996 meningitis outbreak in a case involving accusations of wrongful testing against Pfizer Inc each collected cheques for $175,000 from a compensation trust fund on Thursday.

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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Five militants escaped from a prison in Nigeria's main oil-hub Port Harcourt on Sunday by using their metal beds as ladders to climb over the walls, a spokesman for the prison said.

20110804
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell has agreed that a Nigerian community impacted by its oil spills can seek compensation in a British court, lawyers in the case have said, potentially opening itself up to bigger future financial and reputational damages.

20110727
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Tuesday he will send a constitutional amendment bill to parliament aimed at changing presidential and state governorship tenures to a longer, single term.

20110721
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JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least six people were killed in renewed clashes between Christian and Muslim youths in central Nigeria, adding to already heightened security concerns in Africa's most populous nation.

20110720
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's largely uninspiring cabinet reflects a political compromise that will make the job of transforming Africa's most populous nation much tougher for the core of reformers he has chosen.

20110720
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.ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's main labour unions called off a three-day strike due to start on Wednesday after reaching a last minute agreement with the government over the implementation of the new minimum wage.

20110719
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LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's senior oil workers' union PENGASSAN said it would join a three-day strike this week, including shutting down oil and gas installations, after it said the government and private sector employers failed to implement a minimum wage law.

20110715
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Germany will increase its involvement in Nigeria's liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday, as Africa's most populous nation looks to take advantage of its vast gas reserves.

20110715
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IMIRINGI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian youths broke into a Niger Delta crude oil flow station owned by Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday in protest at what they said was the firm's failure to provide their communities with electricity.

20110714
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IMIRINGI, Nigeria, July 14 (Reuters) - Nigerian youths broke into a Niger Delta crude oil flow station owned by Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday in protest at what they said was the firm's failure to provide their communities with electricity.