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Nigeria - News December 20, 2013

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If, when thinking of a city that pulsates with exciting contemporary art and avant-garde possibility, Paris, New York or London comes immediately to mind - think again.

Islamic extremists firing anti-aircraft rockets and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a tank battalion barracks in northeast Nigeria and set the entire complex ablaze, the military and witnesses say.

Spokesman Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade says the pre-dawn attack Friday in Bama was repelled by fighter jets and a ground assault.

I am sure the terrorized Christians in Nigeria are paralyzed with fear at what the Muslims have planned for them this Christmas.

Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita speaks during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on 11 December, 2013.

The map above shows the political party affiliations of the Nigerian state governors.

Scores of suspected Islamist gunmen stormed a military barracks in north-east Nigeria on Friday, spraying gunfire on the troops inside before torching the compound, the army and residents said.

Islamic religious authorities married 1,111 couples at a mass wedding aimed at combating rising rates of divorce and births out of wedlock, and the number of impoverished widows and divorcees forced to make a living on the streets in Muslim northern Nigeria.

A Nigerian court has sentenced the convicted participant of a 2011 Christmas Day bombing of a Catholic Church to life in prison.

Federal prosecutors say a Kansas airport worker intended to inflict "maximum carnage" with a suicide bomb plot in a commercial aircraft terminal that would have killed or injured hundreds of people and those... Federal prosecutors say a Kansas airport worker intended to inflict "maximum carnage" with a suicide bomb plot in a commercial aircraft ... (more)

The National Energy Board has approved Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline. Here's a look at the dimensions of the project in dollars, distances and other figures.

Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has said that Nigeria would develop more speedily when states across the country are allowed to develop at their own pace and capacity in the spirit of true federalism.

Nigeria's controversial Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill has been voted in unanimously by the Senate in Abuja.

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