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NIGERIA: At least six dead in ...

NIGERIA: At least six dead in sectarian violence

IRIN
Friday, December 14, 2007
At least six people have been killed and 30 critically injured since clashes between Muslim and Christian communities in the north-central Nigerian...

Nigeria Music Video Awards: Infinity wins 8 awards

Friday, December 14, 2007
Gospel singing sensation Infinity, redefined the culture of winning awards in Nigeria’s entertainment industry, when the five-man musical group, took...
NIGERIA: Gas flaring wrecking ...

NIGERIA: Gas flaring wrecking Delta communities

IRIN
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Civil society groups in the Niger Delta region have warned that the government is destroying communities’ health and Nigeria’s environment by...
NIGERIA: Abuja's splendid cent...

NIGERIA: Abuja's splendid centre surrounded by urban blight

IRIN
Friday, December 7, 2007
Patience Israel, a 20-year-old hairdresser, lived in a decent home in Karimo, a squatter settlement near Nigeria's political capital, until it was...
NIGERIA: Driving to death

NIGERIA: Driving to death

IRIN
Friday, November 30, 2007
One of the most dangerous things anyone can do in Nigeria is get into a car. “Remember that every road user is mad,” reads a hand out from the...
NIGERIA: Calabar - Why so clea...

NIGERIA: Calabar - Why so clean?

IRIN
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Of the many towns and cities on the African continent Calabar must be one of the cleanest. “We are proud of the environment in which we live,”...
NIGERIA: Govt hits tobacco com...

NIGERIA: Govt hits tobacco companies with whopping law suit

IRIN
Sunday, November 11, 2007
The Nigerian federal government filed a suit in the High Court of Abuja on Tuesday against tobacco companies British-American Tobacco, Philip Morris...
NIGERIA: Biafra separatist lea...

NIGERIA: Biafra separatist leader free and defiant

IRIN
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
The jailed leader of a separatist movement in the south-east of Nigeria known formerly as Biafra was released from detention at the end of October...
NIGERIA: Plan to demolish wate...

NIGERIA: Plan to demolish waterfront villages suspended

IRIN
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Residents of waterfront villages around Nigeria’s oil capital Port Harcourt are relieved as a plan to demolish their homes has been shelved...
NIGERIA: Food shortages on the...

NIGERIA: Food shortages on the horizon with northern farmers declaring bad crop

IRIN
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Harvests will be poor in the north of Nigeria because of inadequate rains, according to the Kano State chapter of the All Farmers Association of...
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