ABUJA: Nigerian police fired tear gas at teachers and students and shot live rounds into the air as they tried to disperse a rally over college closures yesterday, protesters said.
Talking head: David Byrne heads up an all-star line-up of musicians playing tribute to mysterious Nigerian synth composer William Onyeabor at the Brooklyn Acamdey of Music, May 2 and 3. A group of musicians who have grown to revere the reclusive Nigerian synth composer are teaming up to pay him tribute with a massive dance party at the Brooklyn ... (more)
Nigerian parents lashed out Tuesday at the government's failure to rescue scores of schoolgirls kidnapped two weeks ago by Boko Haram Islamists, as a local leader claimed the hostages had been sold as wives abroad.
Demonstrators confront a police officer during a protest against the elimination of a popular fuel subsidy that has doubled the price of petrol, in Nigeria's capital Abuja January 9, 2012.
In a nightmarish act of violence, Islamist insurgents, members of Boko Haram , forcibly kidnapped 240 girls in the middle of the night on April 14th, burning their school.
The hotel draws tourists and businessmen, as well as companies, which regularly conduct conferences, seminars, meetings and exhibitions at the compound.
Abuja At least 200 schoolgirls abducted in north-east Nigeria by the radical Islamist group Boko Haram have been seen by witnesses being moved in buses to an unknown location, the news website Naij.com reported on Monday.
Nigeria's embattled petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has secured an interim court injunction ordering the House of Representatives to discontinue an ongoing investigation of how the minister allegedly squandered more than N10billion of public funds leasing private jets for two years.
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