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Nigerian ISP’s configuration error disrupted Google services

YoopyaNovember 14, 2018June 3, 2023

by YoopyaNovember 14, 2018June 3, 20230

A Nigerian internet service provider said Tuesday that a configuration error it made during a network upgrade caused a disruption of key Google services, routing...

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Nigerian man pleads guilty to taking part in global email scams

YoopyaDecember 15, 2017June 7, 2023

by YoopyaDecember 15, 2017June 7, 20230

A Nigerian man was sentenced to three years and five months in prison by a U.S. judge on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to taking...

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Nigeria military shuts cattle market ‘financing’ Boko Haram

YoopyaMarch 5, 2016June 30, 2023

by YoopyaMarch 5, 2016June 30, 20230

Nigeria’s military has closed one of Africa’s biggest cattle markets, charging sales of stolen animals is helping finance Boko Haram’s Islamic insurgency, according to angry...

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Former Nigerian defense minister charged with money laundering

YoopyaJanuary 6, 2016June 30, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 6, 2016June 30, 20230

Nigeria’s former defense minister has been charged with money laundering and criminal breach of trust over 300 million naira ($1.5 million) intended for defense spending,...

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Nigeria’s President Buhari asks state oil company to review swap scheme: spokesman

YoopyaJuly 14, 2015July 8, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 14, 2015July 8, 20230

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has instructed the state-run oil company to review agreements behind a programme to swap crude for refined products,...

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Professor Wole Soyinka is 81 years old

YoopyaJuly 13, 2015July 2, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 13, 2015July 2, 20230

In 1986 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The same year he was awarded the Commander of the Federal Republic, CFR. The great literary...

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Buhari rejects purchase of N400m bulletproof cars

YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 10, 2015July 1, 20230

The fortified vehicles are valued at about N400 million. Buhari, after a proposal by the permanent secretary of the State House, Mr. Nebolisa Emodi, when...

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Girl, 13, blows herself up near mosque in suspected Boko Haram attack

YoopyaJuly 9, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 9, 2015July 1, 20230

Teenager was only victim of blast in large city Kano, as Islamist militants increasingly use young girls and women as human bombs. A girl aged...

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Negotiator: Boko Haram asks Nigerian government to swap detainees for kidnapped Chibok girls

YoopyaJuly 9, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 9, 2015July 1, 20230

LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists are offering to free more than 200 young women and girls kidnapped from a boarding school in the...

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Two suicide bombers kill around 30 in northern Nigeria

YoopyaJuly 8, 2015July 2, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 8, 2015July 2, 20230

By Garba Muhammed KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Suicide bombers killed around 30 people in two blasts in northern Nigeria on Tuesday, witnesses and a state...