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Maiduguri -
Heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped more than 100 girls from a school in northeast Nigeria, sparking a search by soldiers to track down the attackers, a security source and witnesses said.
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by AFP
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Maiduguri -
Heavily armed Islamist gunmen kidnapped a group of girls from a secondary school in northeast Nigeria's Borno state and torched the surrounding town, a local official and a witness told AFP.
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by AFP
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Abuja -
Seventy-one people died in a bomb blast in a packed bus station in Nigeria's capital Abuja -- the deadliest attack yet to strike the city -- with the president blaming the explosion on Boko Haram Islamists.
In the Media
by Ola Awoniyi (AFP)
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Abuja -
A powerful blast ripped through a busy commuter bus station in Nigerian capital Abuja killing at dozens of people, according to reports.
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Abuja -
Twin blasts at a bus station packed with morning commuters on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital killed dozens of people on Monday, in what appeared to be the latest attack by Boko Haram Islamists.
In the Media
by Ola Awoniyi (AFP)
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Kano -
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists killed at least 60 people in Nigeria's troubled northeastern Borno state close to the border with Cameroon, a local official said.
In the Media
by AFP
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Kano -
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists on Sunday killed at least 60 people in Nigeria's troubled northeastern Borno state close to the border with Cameroon, a local official said.
In the Media
by AFP
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Lagos -
At only 33, Jason Njoku is already considered one of Africa's most promising entrepreneurs thanks to an online film distribution service that has tapped high demand for Nigerian movies.
In the Media
by Cecile de Comarmond (AFP)
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Lagos -
Can investors get rich by backing Nigerian agriculture?
In the Media
by Ben Simon (AFP)
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Maiduguri -
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists have killed 19 people, including six college teachers, in three separate attacks in Nigeria's troubled northeastern Borno state, residents and travellers said.
In the Media
by AFP
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Kano -
A fourteen year-old child bride from Nigeria feeds her husband and his guests a rice dish laced with poison, killing them.
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Kano -
The death toll in an attack by Fulani herdsmen on a village in northern Nigeria's Zamfara State rose to 79 from 30, a governor spokesman said Sunday.
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Abuja -
Nigeria on Sunday became Africa's biggest economy, leap-frogging South Africa, after the government announced a long-overdue rebasing of the country's gross domestic product.
In the Media
by Ola Awoniyi (AFP)
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2013 was a dangerous year for Christians. Many were tortured and killed, mostly by Islamists throughout the Middle East. Jesus said "love your enemy," so Christians don't usually seek revenge, making them easy targets.
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Lagos -
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and largest oil producer, is set to emerge as the continent's biggest economy on Sunday when the results of an overdue rebasing of its gross domestic product are announced.
In the Media
by Joel Olatunde Agoi (AFP)
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Lagos -
Nigeria could leap-frog South Africa to become Africa's biggest economy this weekend, when the results of a new way of calculating national output are announced.
In the Media
by Phil Hazlewood (AFP)
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Lagos -
Nigeria's Kuddy Cosmetics began as a one-woman business run out of a suitcase, with Kudirat Fashola bringing beauty products back from the United States in her luggage.
In the Media
by Ben Simon (AFP)
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A group of female photographers, known as X-Perspective, held a photo exhibition to increase the awareness of breast cancer in Nigeria. The exhibition, described as the first in West Africa, is titled Battle Scars.
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Lagos -
Nigeria needs to improve the way it does business if it is to fulfil its potential to become one of the world's top economies, a leading economist said on Tuesday.
In the Media
by Phil Hazlewood (AFP)
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Maiduguri -
Two explosions in Nigeria's troubled northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday killed 11 people, including five policemen who were believed to have been targeted, police said.
In the Media
by AFP
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