Nigeria

Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herders have killed 33 people in an attack on a farming village in northwest Nigeria's Kaduna state, where intercommunal herder-farmer violence is common, a local official told AFP Tuesday.
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The first time Atiku Abubakar ran for Nigeria's presidency, his country was still under military rule and Nelson Mandela was about to win a Nobel prize for ending apartheid.
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With under three weeks to go until Nigeria's presidential elections, major shortages of cash and fuel have plunged Africa's most populous country into crisis.
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The authorities in Nigeria say the number of people killed by floods ravaging the country in recent weeks has risen to more than 500.
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Charles Choko, a Nigerian based Zimbabwean farmer has allegedly been abducted in a farm located at Anchau town in the Kabau local government area of Kaduna State in the West African country.
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Mounting attacks from jihadists and criminal gangs, including a brazen assault close to the capital, are creating a headache for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari as he sees out his last six months in office.
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Police in Nigeria have rescued 77 people, including children, from a church where they were confined in the south-western state of Ondo. Some of them are believed to have been there for months. A police spokesperson said many of them had…
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Nigeria is facing a worsening spate of kidnappings for ransom by armed gangs who frequently attack travellers and rural communities.
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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday vowed that next year's presidential election will be "free", "safe" and "transparent" as he marked the anniversary of the country's return to democracy.
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The armed men entered St Francis Xavier church in the town of Owo during a Sunday service. They fired into the congregation and then kidnapped a priest as well as some other church-goers, witnesses said.
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