GUSAU, Nigeria (AP) – Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwest of the country have been released, the state governor said on Tuesday as the West African nation faces an onslaught of school kidnappings. Girls 10 and older wearing light blue hijabs and …
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ABUJA, Nigeria – Seven Nigerian Air Force (NAF) personnel who died in a fatal plane crash in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Sunday were close to finding the whereabouts of dozens of students abducted by gunmen from their school in the north-center. In Nigeria last week, two senior military sources …
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Nairobi, Kenya (AP) – Another new strain of coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, a top African health official said on Thursday, but added that further investigations are needed. Following the announcement of similar variants in Britain and South Africa, the epidemic could raise new epidemic alarms, leading to …
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LAGOS, Nigeria – Boko Haram militants on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of boys from a school in the northern Nigerian state of Katsina, one of the largest such attacks in years, raising fears of a growing wave of violence in the area. . More than 30 …
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MAIDGURI, Nigeria (AP) – Suspected members of the Islamic militant group Boko Haram have killed at least 40 rice farmers and fishermen while harvesting crops in Nigeria’s northern Borno state, officials say. The attack took place on Saturday in Garin Kwashebe, a Borno community known for its rice farming, the …
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