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Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
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Kidnappers stabbed a captive German engineer to death Thursday as soldiers unaware of the hostage's presence raided a home in northern Nigeria, officials said, five months after his abduction by proclaimed Al Qaeda-linked terrorists.
The killing of Edgar Fritz Raupach came as authorities acknowledged the kidnapping of an Italian working for a construction company, part of an increasing number of abductions targeting expatriates working in Nigeria's north and central regions.Soldiers launched a raid Thursday morning in Kano, the northern city where gunmen abducted Raupach on Jan. 26 following a major terrorist attack there that killed at least 185 people. The mission targeted a home that soldiers suspected held "an ongoing meeting of senior commanders of the terrorist element," military spokesman Lt. Iweah Ikedichi said in a statement."On sighting the security forces, the terrorist element opened fire and threw (explosives)," the statement read. "The security forces responded immediately...A motorcycle-riding suicide bomber drove into a convoy carrying a top police official in northeast Nigeria on Monday, detonating his explosives and killing at least ...
Commandeered buses blocked off the main bridge linking Nigeria's largest city Wednesday, stranding thousands of commuters as protesters took over the 12-kilometer (7...
Italy's foreign ministry says an Italian engineer has been kidnapped in northern Nigeria.The ministry's press office said the man was abducted on Monday in the Kwara...
Students at one of Nigeria's oldest universities protested a presidential announcement renaming the school Tuesday, saying that while the institution has been neglec...
Security official: German kidnapped in north Nigeria killed in failed rescue attempt.
For the price of cheap gasoline, Nigeria paid billions of dollars into a corrupt government system of fuel subsidies that saw huge contracts awarded to shady compani...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The president of Nigeria has suspended the national soccer team from international competition for two years after its poor showing at the Worl...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's acting president has approved a budget that increases spending by about 50 percent, riding on the bullish hopes a truce with militant...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen shot and killed a Nigerian journalist at his home the same day two others died while attempting to cover fighting between Christians and...
Victor Chikelu, a Nigerian medical student, was punched and told to go back to Africa by a drunk in the Kiev subway two years ago. But he, like other Africans who ha...
Gunmen attacked worship services at a university campus and a church Sunday in northern Nigeria, killing at least 21 people in coordinated assaults that saw panicked...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian court on Monday charged the country's ruling party chairman over a series of corruption allegations, creating a criminal case agains...
A Nigerian court on Thursday charged an Iranian and three Nigerians for arms trafficking in connection to an arms shipment officials seized last month at Nigeria's b...
The prison, cut out of the dense jungle that engulfs this island outside Lagos, never officially existed in records, though critics of Nigeria's military rulers were...
Nigeria's most populous state says it is rehiring nearly 788 doctors fired three weeks ago for going on strike to protest their wages.Lagos State Governor Babatunde ...
Police fired tear gas Friday at several hundred students and unemployed youths in Nigeria's largest city protesting a presidential decision to rename one of the nati...
Police fired tear gas at several hundred students and unemployed youths in Nigeria's largest city protesting a presidential decision to rename one of the nation's to...
Police in Nigeria's largest city used tear gas Friday to try to disperse a crowd of several hundred university students angry at the president's decision to change t...
A man tried to smuggle grenades and rifle ammunition into Nigeria's Information Ministry where ministers were attending a news conference Monday, witnesses and autho...
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