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Nigerian president sacks four ministers: source

YoopyaFeb 13, 2014November 1, 20230

(Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan sacked four ministers including aviation minister Stella Oduah, a close ally, in the latest in a wave of government

Nigerian former vice president defects to opposition

YoopyaFeb 4, 2014November 1, 20230

(Reuters) – Former vice president Atiku Abubakar has defected to Nigeria’s main opposition party, adding a heavyweight name to a group that poses an increasing

45 killed in Nigeria market attack; police blame Boko Haram

YoopyaJan 31, 2014November 1, 20230

Kano, Nigeria (CNN) — Suspected Boko Haram militants opened fire on a village market and burned homes in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno late Sunday,

Nigerian PDP senators in mass defection to APC

YoopyaJan 30, 2014November 1, 20230

At least 11 senators from Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s party have quit to join the opposition, the latest in a series of defections. The senators

Nigeria security service arrests deputy opposition leader

YoopyaJan 28, 2014November 29, 20230

(Reuters) – Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) arrested the deputy head of the main opposition coalition on Monday over comments he is reported to have

Group: Nigeria arrests gay ‘suspects’ under new law banning homosexuality

YoopyaJan 23, 2014November 26, 20230

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) — Nigerian authorities arrested 10 people believed to be gay men under a bill signed this week that bans same-sex marriages, a

Nigeria’s Jonathan told not to stand in 2015 by mentor Obasanjo

YoopyaDec 12, 2013February 3, 20240

(Reuters) – One of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s predecessors and mentors has turned against him, penning a scathing denunciation that could deepen division in the

Nigerian survivor will never go to sea again

YoopyaDec 11, 2013January 31, 20240

WARRI, Nigeria (AP) — He survived three days in a sunken tugboat at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and was hailed as a miracle

Nigerian governor election hit by delays, disputes: organizer

YoopyaNov 19, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – A Nigerian state election was disrupted by delayed and missing materials and arguments over the voter register, organizers acknowledged on Monday, raising concerns

Insight: Boko Haram, taking to hills, seize slave “brides”

YoopyaNov 18, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – In the gloom of a hilltop cave in Nigeria where she was held captive, Hajja had a knife pressed to her throat by