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When Nigerian soldiers in pursuit of Islamist militants reached the northeastern town of Baga, fish trader Mohammed Adawu had no time to save his sick 72-year-old father.
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At least 53 people were killed in suicide bombings and attacks in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu, police said, while a human-rights group said the death toll was about three times higher.
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan suspended his interior minister after violent protests against his election victory killed at least six people in Africa’s biggest oil producer.
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Nigerian opposition supporters in several northern cities burned buildings and attacked members of President Goodluck Jonathan ’s ruling party after results gave him an election victory, police and residents said.
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Fighting between Nigerian security forces and Islamist militants in the northeastern city of Damaturu continued for a second day, a police official said.
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Incumbent Goodluck Jonathan may be formally declared the winner of Nigeria’s presidential election after winning almost twice as many votes as his closest rival, while opposition protests spread in six northern cities.
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As many as 50 people were killed in a suicide car bombing today near a church in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna.
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Armed attacks on banks in Nigeria have reached 100 this year as a militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram, increasingly targets lenders in the country’s mainly Muslim north, a central bank official said.
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At least 153 people died in riots across northern Nigeria by supporters of opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari , who lost the April 16 presidential vote in Africa’s top oil producer, a civil rights group said.
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Attacks by Islamic militants in Nigeria that killed at least 256 people in the northern city of Kano are challenging President Goodluck Jonathan’s government a week after a nationwide strike paralyzed the economy.
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