Tag: nigeria
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Dozens stage protests over kidnapped students in Nigeria
Kano, Nigeria, (20th March, 2021, 10:50 pm)(AFP/APP):Protesters blocked a highway outside the northwest Nigerian city of Kaduna on Monday to demand the release of kidnapped students. Several dozen protesters barricaded the road outside the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation on the city’s outskirts, disrupting traffic, an AFP journalist saw. Gunmen are still holding 39 college…
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‘Bandit’ attacks kill 13 in northwest Nigeria
Kano, Nigeria, (20th March, 2021, 01:04 am) (AFP/APP):Gunmen from criminal gangs have killed 13 people and injured seven others in series of attacks in northwest Nigeria, in the latest violence plaguing the region, a local government official said on Friday. Nigeria’s northwest and central states have been hit by a wave of mass abductions and…
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Italy court acquits Eni, Shell in Nigeria corruption case
Milan, March 17 (AFP/APP):An Italian court on Wednesday cleared oil majors Eni and Shell of corruption charges related to a major deal in Nigeria, according to media and a corruption watchdog. The case focused on claims that $1.1 billion (920 million euros) in bribes had been paid to secure a giant Nigerian offshore oilfield in…
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Gunmen kidnap pupils in Nigeria’s restive northwest
Kano, Nigeria, March 15 (AFP/APP): Gunmen on Monday seized an unspecified number of primary school pupils and teachers in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna, the government said, in a region wracked by banditry and kidnapping. The raid is the latest in a string of attacks on schools in Nigeria, coming just four days after 39…
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Mass School Abduction Foiled in Nigeria
A mass school abduction has been foiled in Nigeria.
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Britain signs deal with Nigeria to return looted funds
Lagos, March 9 (AFP/APP):Britain and Nigeria on Tuesday signed a deal to return £4.2 million ($5.82 million) recovered from a former governor of oil-rich Delta state, who served a jail term in London for fraud. “This is the first time that money recovered from criminals will be returned to Nigeria (from Britain) since an agreement…
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Curfew in Nigerian town of abducted schoolgirls
Curfew has been imposed in a northwestern Nigerian town after violence marred the reunion of nearly 300 abducted schoolgirls
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279 Nigerian school girls released by kidnappers this week
Jangebe, Nigeria, March 3 (AFP/APP): All the 279 Nigerian schoolgirls released by kidnappers this week were on Wednesday reunited with their parents, in an emotional event overshadowed by chaos and shooting by security forces, an AFP reporter saw. Angered by officials’ insistence on a formal handover before parents could leave with their children, mobs began…
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Nigerian Schoolgirls Released by Kidnappers
Gusau, Nigeria, March 3 (AFP/APP): All the 279 Nigerian schoolgirls released by kidnappers this week will reunite with their parents later on Wednesday, a senior state education official told AFP. The girls, pupils at Government Secondary School in the remote village of Jangebe in northeastern Zamfara state, were abducted on Friday from their hostels by gunmen known locally as…
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Africa virus fight boosted as jabs reach Nigeria, Angola
Abuja, March 2 (AFP/APP):Millions of coronavirus shots from the global Covax scheme arrived in Nigeria and Angola on Tuesday, as African countries ramp up their vaccine rollouts. While Africa’s most populous country Nigeria received almost four million jabs, Angola welcomed more than 600,000 doses and DR Congo was scheduled to get a consignment later, following…