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Nigeria : Nigerian election rivals lock horns over economy
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reuters
LAGOS (Reuters) - The two main rivals in Nigeria's ruling party have locked horns over the country's dwindling oil savings and the state of its public finances, putting the economy back in the spotlight a week ahead of the primaries.
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Nigeria : Ruling party candidate ahead in Nigeria state vote
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reuters
WARRI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's ruling party candidate is ahead in a rerun governorship election in the oil-producing Delta state, the electoral commission said on Friday, but his opponent expressed doubts about the conduct of the vote.
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Nigeria : President vows to seek justice
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reuters
President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria has vowed to make sure that the perpetrators of the bomb blasts in Jos and Abuja on the eves of Chirstmas and New Year were apprehended and brought to justice.
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Nigeria : Nigeria's president sets out anti-terror plans
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reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan announced a series of anti-terrorism initiatives on Monday as he looks to regain control after a wave of attacks in the last week of 2010 rocked Africa's most populous nation.
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Nigeria : Nearly 4 million Sudanese to vote on independence
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reuters
JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Almost 4 million southern Sudanese, or roughly half the south's population, have registered to take part in an independence referendum next week that is likely to split Africa's largest country in two, officials said on Monday.
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Nigeria : Nigeria U20 camp from January 8
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africanews
Nigeria's U20 team the Flying Eagles are scheduled to begin camping from January 8 to prepare adequately for the upcoming CAF U20 Championships taking place in Libya in March. CAF will hold draws for the tournament on Tuesday January 4 in Tripoli.
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Nigeria : Abuja Blasts - FG Invites US, Israeli Experts
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Vanguard
Abuja — THE Federal Government, yesterday, made good its pledge to seek the assistance of foreign bomb experts to get to the root of New Year Eve bomb blast at the Mammy Market of the Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja which claimed four lives and injured several others as United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, agents are already on their way to the country.
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Nigeria : Obama - We'll Assist Nation
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This Day
New York — President Barack Obama yesterday "strongly" condemned the new year eve's bomb blast near an Army Barracks in the nation's capital city.
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Nigeria : Nigerian police arrest 92 over Islamist sect attacks
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reuters
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian police have arrested 92 suspected members of a radical Islamist sect after a string of attacks this week in the northeast of Africa's most populous nation, a police spokesman said on Friday.
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Nigeria : Bomb kills at least four in Nigerian capital
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reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - A bomb at a crowded market in Nigeria's capital Abuja killed at least four people and injured more than a dozen during New Year's Eve celebrations late on Friday.
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Nigeria : Nigerian president condemns bomb blast in Abuja
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| on 2011/1/1 10:40:24 |
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xinhuda
ABUJA, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday night condemned the bomb blast in the capital city and ordered the nation's security services to rise to the occasion and arrest this new and dangerous challenge to the country's peace and stability.
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Nigeria : Nigerian police arrest 92 over Islamist sect attacks
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reuters
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian police have arrested 92 suspected members of a radical Islamist sect after a string of attacks this week in the northeast of Africa's most populous nation, a police spokesman said on Friday.
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Nigeria : Nigeria transfers $1 bln from oil savings to government
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reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria has distributed $1 billion of its windfall savings from oil revenues to three tiers of government, in addition to a usual monthly allocation, the finance ministry said on Friday.
There is $300 million left in the account, into which it saves revenues from oil sold above a benchmark price, Yabawa Wabi, minister of state for finance, told reporters.
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Nigeria : Two militants killed, five wound in E Algeria: paper
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xinhuanet
ALGIERS, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Algerian army ambushed militants in the coastal province of Jijel, about 360 km east of the Algerian capital of Algiers, killing at least two and wounding five others, local Ennahar newspaper reported on Sunday, citing senior sources.
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Nigeria : UN chief appalled by deadly violence in Nigeria
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xinhuanet
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Sunday condemned the deadly violence that broke out in parts of Nigeria in recent days and reportedly killed at least 30 people and injured more than 70 others.
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Nigeria : Religious clashes flare in central Nigeria
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reuters
JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Clashes broke out between armed Christian and Muslim groups near the central Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday, a Reuters witness said, after Christmas Eve bombings in the region killed more than 30 people.
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Nigeria : Prez on heels of X`mas eve bombers
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| on 2010/12/27 10:29:06 |
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africanews
The Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said government would ensure that those responsible for the bomb blast that left over 30 persons dead on Christmas eve around the north central Nigerian city of Jos would be found and justice meted.
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