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Boko Haram Islamist militants in Nigerian ‘village massacre’
A group of suspected Islamist fighters has killed at least 90 people in an attack on a remote village in northeast Nigeria on Sunday.
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Nigeria says scores killed in gun battle with Boko Haram
The Nigerian military says it has killed at least 50 Islamist rebels as they tried to cross into Cameroon, in a fierce gun battle that saw 15 of their own troops and five civilians die.
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Hague names British hostage believed killed in Nigeria
William Hague names a British construction worker, “likely to have been killed” at the hands of his Nigerian extremist captors, as Brendan Vaughan.
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Nigerian extremist group says hostages killed
An extremist Islamic group says it has executed seven foreign hostages, including one Briton, after kidnapping them from a construction company last month.
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France: we will not negotiate with Nigerian terrorists
France says it will not negotiate with gunmen who took a family of seven hostage last week, despite threats to kill the three adults and four children.
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Briton ‘kidnapped’ in Nigeria
The UK foreign office investigates reports that a British citizen is one of seven people to have been kidnapped by gunmen in rural northern Nigeria.
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Why Nigeria’s lead poisoning epidemic is set to get worse
Nigeria’s gold-mining state of Zamfara is already in the throes of the world’s deadliest lead poisoning epidemic. And unless a clean-up starts quickly, the situation could get much worse.
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Nigeria mourns 153 people killed in air crash
Nigeria begins three days of national mourning after a plane crashes in Lagos, killing all 153 passengers and crew.
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At least 38 killed in Nigeria car bomb attack
At least 38 people have been killed in a car bomb exploded near the Gwari area in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna State on Sunday.
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West ignores Nigeria’s terrorists ‘at its peril’
Writing for Channel 4 News, defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones warns that the west ignores the escalation in activities of Nigeria’s Boko Haram at its peril.
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Lethal by-product of Nigeria’s gold trade
The gold-mining state of Zamfara is the site of the world’s worst lead-poisoning disaster. Hundreds of children have died, and campaigners tell Channel 4 News thousands more face permanent disability.
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More than 170 dead in Nigeria attacks
At least 178 people are now dead after a string of bomb blasts and shootings in northern Nigeria and a senior doctor in the city of Kano says that number could rise.
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Nigeria’s Christians face a grim new year
As Nigeria’s president declares a state of emergency after a fatal blast in Maiduguri, Anthony Tucker-Jones reports on the Nigerian Taliban’s attempt to spark a sectarian civil war.
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Fatal bomb blasts hit Nigerian churches
Five explosions rock Nigeria killing dozens of people. The most serious blast is at a Catholic church on the outskirts of the capital Abuja.
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Nigeria bomb and gun attacks leave ’63 dead’
Witnesses say a spate of coordinated gun and bomb attacks in the city of Damaturu have left the area deserted, with bodies piling up in local morgues.