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Nigeria Islamists storm prison, kill guards: police

YoopyaMay 5, 20120

Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants stormed a prison in their northeastern heartland on Friday, killing two guards and freeing the inmates, police said, in the latest

Nigeria pledges action, urges patience on oil graft

YoopyaMay 5, 20120

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s justice ministry said on Friday it would prosecute anyone found guilty of being involved in a $6.8 billion fuel subsidy corruption

Gunmen fire on Nigeria cattle market, 60 killed

YoopyaMay 4, 20120

By Ibrahim Mshelizza and Mike Oboh MAIDUGURI/ABUJA (Reuters) – Gunmen threw bombs and opened fire on a cattle market in remote northeastern Nigeria, killing at

Nigeria state seeks husbands for 1,000 brides-to-be

YoopyaMay 3, 2012April 8, 20230

In Nigeria’s Kano state, where the number of divorcees is cause for concern, the government is acting as matchmaker to help ex-wives and widows find

Nigerian forces raid Islamist base in Kano, 1 killed

YoopyaMay 1, 20120

By Bala Adamu KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigerian forces raided the hideout of Islamist militants in Kano on Tuesday, killing the suspected mastermind of an

Boko Haram kills four in Nigeria church attack: police

YoopyaApr 30, 20120

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram killed four people in an attack on a Sunday church service in the northeast town of

Boko Haram kill 7 civilians in north Nigeria: government

YoopyaApr 20, 20120

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Gunmen from radical Islamist sect Boko Haram have killed at least seven civilians in the past 24 hours in a spate

Shell assessing $4 bln Nigeria oil projects

YoopyaApr 19, 2012December 25, 20220

Royal Dutch Shell Plc is assessing projects that could be worth around $4 billion to boost oil production in Nigeria and cut flaring of associated

Okonjo-Iweala loses to health expert Kim in World Bank race

YoopyaApr 17, 20120

By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The World Bank on Monday chose Korean-born American health expert Jim Yong Kim as its new president, maintaining Washington’s

Nigerian president signs 2012 budget, trims spending

YoopyaApr 13, 20120

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed the 2012 budget into law on Friday, reducing total spending to 4.697 trillion naira from the 4.88