At least 10 people are killed and dozens injured, some critically, in a car bombing at the UN headquarters in the Nigerian capital Abuja.

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Deadly bomb strikes UN Nigeria HQ

A huge explosion rocked the main United Nations building in the Nigerian capital on Friday, spreading panic among citizens.

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Blast Hits U.N. Building in Nigeria

Suspected Islamist militants kill at least 12 people in attacks on banks and police stations in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Gombi.

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Nigeria police and banks attacked

Nigeria’s pastors run multi-million dollar empires which rival that of oil tycoons, a Nigerian blogger who researches the issue tells the BBC.

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Nigeria’s ‘millionaire’ pastors

At least five people are killed after police stations are attacked in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, hospital sources say.

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Deadly attack on Nigerian police

Amid violent protests from his main opponent’s supporters, the incumbent Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, appeared set for an easy election victory.

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Protests in North as Nigerian Incumbent Leads in Vote Tally

A bomb explodes during a political meeting near the Nigerian capital, Abuja, leaving at least three people dead, police say.

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Bomb blast targets Nigeria rally

Five Nigerian men are due to appear in a court in South Africa accused of impersonating doctors and endangering people’s lives.

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Nigeria ‘fake medics’ in SA court

Disgraced Nigerian sports administrator Amos Adamu says he is taking his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport because he is desperate to prove his innocence.

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Adamu ‘desperate’ to clear name

At least 80 people are now known to have died in violence in the Nigerian city of Jos, as religious leaders accuse politicians of stoking tensions.

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Nigeria violence death toll rises

The Christmas Eve attacks in the volatile Nigerian city of Jos have claimed at least 31 lives, a bloody aftermath in a region long torn by Christian and Muslim hostility.

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Multiple bombing kill 31 in Nigeria

Halliburton, the shadowy oil field company once run by Dick Cheney, said Tuesday that the company had agreed to pay $35 million to the Nigerian government to settle a bribery case-and the country will drop the criminal and civil charges against the…

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Cheney Firm to Pay Up in Bribe Case

A Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up an airliner with a bomb sewn into his underwear last December is arraigned on new charges in the US.

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‘Plane bomber’ faces new charges

An Iranian man is charged with arms trafficking in a Nigerian court, in connection to a shipment of weapons intercepted at a port last month.

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The cargo area of Logan International Airport in Boston was evacuated on Tuesday after a suspicious package was found. The package, which had a Nigerian address, was detected during routine inspections by a police dog. No passenger flights have been…

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