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Lagos, Nigeria – With no official casualty figure from the authorities yet, Nigerian newspapers on Tuesday put the death toll from Monday evening’s suicide bomb attack at a popular bus park in the northern city of Kano at around 60. … read more »
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Gunmen opened fire in a student housing area near a polytechnic school in northeastern Nigeria on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people in an attack whose motives remained unclear, officials said. Details were still emerging of the attack in the … read more »
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(AP) — Officials say a bomb detonated in northern Nigeria near an Islamic boarding school, causing unknown casualties. Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency, said the bomb blew up Sunday morning in Zaria, a city in … read more »
Once again, three Nigerians have been killed in a needless death occasioned by the collapse of a building. It would be the umpteenth time that collapsed buildings will hurl hapless Nigerians into early graves. It has happened in many towns … read more »
Abuja – An explosion went off on Tuesday at a shopping centre in the Nigerian capital Abuja, where an unexploded bomb was later discovered, rescue officials said. The first blast happened at about 21:00 at a shopping plaza in the … read more »
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Abuja – A blast went off outside a nightclub in the Nigerian capital Abuja hours after the national security adviser and defence minister were sacked amid fears over spiralling violence in the country’s north. No casualties were reported in the … read more »
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Lagos – A Nigerian airline whose airplane crashed in the country’s largest city, killing 153 on board and more on the ground, defended itself against growing public criticism, saying its own chief engineer died on the doomed flight. Francis Ogboro, … read more »
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Lagos – Nigeria began three days of mourning on Monday after a plane carrying 153 people plunged into a residential area of Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos on Sunday, with all those aboard presumed dead. The plane, which was flying … read more »
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Nigerian emergency services pulled more bodies out of the still-smouldering, ash-covered wreckage of a plane on Monday that crashed in the commercial hub Lagos, killing all 153 people on board. President Goodluck Jonathan has declared three days of national mourning … read more »
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LAGOS, Nigeria — A passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, killing all passengers and crew aboard, an emergency official said. Several charred corpses could be seen in the rubble of a building … read more »
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Gunmen surrounded villages in northeast Nigeria and set them ablaze, killing at least 12 people and wounding 48 others in violence that could spread as attackers remain hiding in the rural region, the Nigerian Red Cross said Monday. The attacks … read more »
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JOS, Nigeria — A bomb blast in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Easter Sunday injured several people, officials said, hours after a car bomb attack in the country’s north killed at least 20. “Security personnel have moved to … read more »
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February 26, 2012 by benim
A suicide bomber smashed his explosives-laden car through the gates of a packed church during Sunday service in Jos, central Nigeria, killing three people and injuring dozens, church leaders said. Witnesses said a black car crashed through the gate of … read more »
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Kaduna – An emergency management official says an explosion has struck near a military base in a central Nigerian city at the heart of riots that killed hundreds of people last year. Yushau Shuaib of the National Emergency Management Agency … read more »
Abuja – Nigeria will bring terrorism “under control” and confront the radical Muslim sect that claimed responsibility for a car bombing at the country’s United Nations headquarters that killed at least 19 people, its president vowed on Saturday amid the … read more »
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At least 18 people were killed in a bombing at a U.N. building in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, a police spokesman said Friday. Police commissioner Michael Zuokumo told reporters eight people had been injured. Rescue officials are at the … read more »
A helicopter crash in southwestern Nigeria has left three people, including the pilot, dead, an emergency official said Saturday after a six-hour search in a wooded area to locate the wreckage. The private helicopter crashed Friday outside Ife-Odan in Osun … read more »
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Nigerian emergency authorities say at least 29 people have died in weekend floods in two cities of Africa’s most populous nation. A spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency said Tuesday that at least 20 people died in the commercial … read more »
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An explosive device went off in a red-light district in a northern Nigerian city but caused no casualties, residents and journalists said Monday. The device, believed to be home-made, went off Sunday in the Obalande district of Kaduna, notorious for … read more »
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A military official on Sunday said that 17 people, including a 13-year-old boy, were killed during a military and police operation against a radical Muslim sect in Nigeria’s restive northeast. Maj. Gen. Jack Nwachukwu Nwaogbo told journalists in the city … read more »
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Nigerian police Monday probed a series of explosions following President Goodluck Jonathan’s inauguration, including bombs that ripped through a crowded beer garden, with about 20 feared dead. The blasts struck four cities, mainly in Nigeria’s north, which was hit by … read more »
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Bomb blasts at a beer garden and eatery at a Nigerian military barracks killed at least 10 people hours after President Goodluck Jonathan was inaugurated, an emergency source said. Three bomb blasts hit a “mammy market” — commonly found at … read more »
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An explosion hit a polling station in northeastern Nigeria during Saturday’s parliamentary polls, causing a number of injuries, officials said. “There was no death as of now,” said emergency management agency spokesman Yushau Shuaib. “Only injuries and victims taken to … read more »
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