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NIGERIA: Youths Set President Jonathan's Campaign Buses On Fire

Some irate youths went berserk in Jos on Saturday setting ablaze two campaign buses emblazoned with the picture of President Goodluck Jonath...

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BIZARRE: Humans Turn To Beasts To Devour Livestock In Jos - Nigeria Tourism Chief

Do you know what a 'Rikida' is?  According to Mr. John Doy, General Manager of the Plateau Tourist Corporation, some humans tran...

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NIGERIA: Jos Twin Blast: PLSG Confirms 33 Dead, 45 injured

The Plateau State government has confirmed 33 people dead while 45 people sustained various degrees of injuries in the Jos twin blast which ...

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Blasts Kill At Least 40 In Nigerian City Of Jos

Two bombs exploded near a bus station in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Thursday evening, witnesses said, the second one killing at lea...

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Nigerian Military ‘Defuses Bomb’ Planted In Jos School

The military Special Taskforce on Jos crisis, STF, said it defused an explosive planted at a secondary school, Trinity College in Jos, Plate...

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Bomb Scare As Residents Scamper For Safety In Middle Belt Nigerian State

Residents of Dogon Karfe area of Jos North local government area of Plateau state yesterday scampered for safety when a car suspected to be ...

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Over 100 Killed As Sectarian Violence Flares in Nigerian 'Middle Belt'

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom says more than 100 people have been killed in religion-related violence since March t...

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Religious Violence In Central Nigeria Villages Kills 10

Leaders in two villages in central Nigeria say at least 10 people have been killed in attacks between the Christians and Muslims living ther...

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Religious Attacks Leave More Than 50 Dead In Central Nigeria

Attacks on villages surrounding a central Nigerian city at the heart of unrest between Christians and Muslims have killed more than 50 peopl...

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Unknown Gunmen Kill 20 In Plateau Amidst Easter Celebrations

As Christians in Nigeria joined their counterparts across the world to celebrate Easter, which marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ, gunme...

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Nigeria - 28 Killed As Ethnic Clashes Erupt In North-central Plateau

Up to 28 persons were confirmed dead on Tuesday by the police in central north Nigeria's Plateau State following an attack by unknown gu...

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Nigeria - Suspected Islamist Kill 10, Including 4 Children In Northcentral Plateau

Armed men shot or hacked to death 10 people in a village in central Nigeria's Plateau state, a government official and witness said on F...

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Nigeria - Gunmen Kill 4 As Ethnic Clashes Resume In Plateau

The relative peace in the troubled Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State was shattered on Thursday when some notorious gunmen stormed...

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Nigeria - Gunmen Ambush And Kill 3 In Renewed Ethnic Clashes In Jos

Three other people were killed by unknown gunmen in troubled Barkin-Ladi and Riyom Local Government Areas of Plateau State early Wednesday j...

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30 People Killed In Central Nigeria Village Attack

Nomadic Muslim herdsmen attacked a Christian village in central Nigeria over long-running land disputes, killing at least 30 people in their...

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