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Police in Nigeria’s Adamawa state say attackers stormed the home of the state’s deputy governor in Midlu Saturday, killing 11 people. Some victims were shot, while others had their throats cut. Police have given few details, but say it appears … read more »
At least 28 people have been killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen, who also set ablaze houses in Nigeria’s northern state of Plateau, officials said. The gunmen attacked the villages in Ganawuri district in Plateau under Riyom local government … read more »
(AFP) KANO, Nigeria — Twenty-five people were killed in eastern Nigeria when attackers blasted a jail, a police station and a bank with bombs, machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades, police said Saturday. “We have 25 dead from yesterday’s attacks in Ganye, … read more »
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Tagged Adamawa State, Agence France-Presse, Boko Haram, Chief of police, Ganye, Kano, Nigeria, Nigerian news, nigerian newspapers, Police station, Prison
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THE situation surrounding the killing of the four students of the University of Port Harcourt worsened on Tuesday evening, as students of the institution, led by the leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), stormed Omuokiri-Aluu, burned houses and … read more »
Police hunting for the killers of 26 people in a college residence in northeast Nigeria said they had raided houses and made a number of arrests on Wednesday. The attackers went from room to room in the building in the … read more »
Kano – Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead four traders from the mainly Christian Igbo ethnic group in northeastern Nigeria on Monday, residents said, the latest in a string of such attacks. Islamist group Boko Haram has carried out scores … read more »
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Tagged Adamawa, Adamawa State, bokoharam, Igbo, Igbo people, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Monday, Nigeria
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Lagos – Nigerian authorities have discovered a house allegedly being used by Islamist group Boko Haram to manufacture bombs in the country’s northeast, an official said on Wednesday. The raid in Adamawa state led to the recovery of explosives and … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Adamawa State, Africa news, African news, Boko Haram, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Jimeta, Nigeria, Wednesday
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Maiduguri – Suspected members of the Boko Haram radical Islamist sect have killed seven people in two separate attacks in Nigeria’s north, authorities said on Tuesday. Adamawa State police spokesperson Daniel Altine said attackers shot dead a policeman, a soldier … read more »
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Tagged Adamawa State, africa african news, Boko Haram, indepthafrica africa news, Islamism, Kano, Mubi, Nigeria, Police officer
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By Ogbuefi Blogs In May 2010, the Aminu Masari-led Reform Forum, held a one-day conference in Abuja at which members of the forum sought to hijack the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Those at the conference included former … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Adamawa State, Federal Capital Territory, Femi Fani-Kayode, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, Nigeria, PDP, Peoples Democratic Party
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Abuja – Nigeria’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday to remove five powerful state governors from office because their tenures should have expired last year, replacing them with the speakers of the house of assembly from the respective states. The governors … read more »
Nigeria today faces a formidable combination of security challenges, which led President Goodluck Jonathan last week to declare the situation “even worse than the civil war”. The situation, which combines communal clashes, civil unrest and a growing tide of almost … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Adamawa State, Boko Haram, Borno State, Goodluck Jonathan, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigeria Police Force, Plateau State
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KANO, Nigeria — Gunmen have attacked a pub in northeastern Nigeria, killing two people amid a wave of such violence blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram, residents and police said Saturday. Two gunmen who arrived on a motorbike and opened … read more »
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Tagged Adamawa, Adamawa State, Boko Haram, Igbo people, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mubi, Muslim, Nigeria
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Nigeria’s Intersociety Speaks On The Horrible State Of Affairs In Nigeria: With 215 Nigerians Killed Unlawfully In Two Weeks, In Addition To 54.000 Killed Since 1999: Nigeria Is Close To Rwandan Genocide & Somali Balkanization Except Doctrine Of Necessity Intervenes … read more »
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Tagged Adamawa State, Boko Haram, Deeper Life Bible Church, Gombe State, Goodluck Jonathan, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigeria Police Force, Yobe State
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has said that spiralling violence blamed on the radical Islamist group Boko Haram is “even worse” than the country’s 1960s civil war. “The situation we have in our hands is even worse than the civil war … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Adamawa State, Ayo Oritsejafor, Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Jonathan, MAIDUGURI, Nigeria
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By Odenigbo Chidi Anyaeche Killing of Igbo’s in Nigeria by their fellow Nigerians of Northern Nigerian Muslim extraction seems to be a yearly ritual. But the recent killings by a radical Islamic sect called Boko Haram (Western education is meaningless) … read more »
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Tagged Adamawa State, Boko Haram, Igbo, Igbo people, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mubi, Muslim, Nigeria, Nigerian Television Authority
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Witnesses say gunmen have killed at least 17 people in northeastern Nigeria, the latest in a series of deadly attacks in the region. Friday’s attacks happened in the Mubi district of Adamawa state, near the border with Cameroon. A local … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Adamawa State, Boko Haram, Cameroon, Christmas, Goodluck Jonathan, Igbo people, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria
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Kano – Gunmen stormed a police station in northern Nigeria on Thursday and attacked two banks, a resident and police source said, amid a wave of such incidents blamed on an Islamist sect. “Reports have reached the police headquarters of … read more »
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November 24, 2010 by benim
Yola, the Adamawa State capital, was yesterday thrown into jubilation, as supporters of former vice president Atiku Abubakar thronged the streets to celebrate his emergence as the consensus candidate of the North, dusting three other presidential hopefuls of the PDP. … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Adamawa State, Africa news, Atiku Abubakar, Bukola Saraki, Goodluck Jonathan, Gusau, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigeria election, Olusegun Obasanjo
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