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We have started to collect the most important news related to Nigeria in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
Eleven people have been killed in a gun and machete attack in eastern Nigeria targeting the deputy governor of Adamawa state, police say.
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At least 36 people, including children, are reportedly killed in a major road accident in southern Nigeria.
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Nigeria sets up a panel to study the possibility of granting an amnesty to Islamist rebels, amid pressure from religious and political leaders.
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NorwayWill Mozambique emulate Nigeria or Norway when its gas flows?
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Nigerian troops say they have killed 14 suspected members of the Islamist group Boko Haram, in a raid on a building in the northern city of Kano.
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Nigeria is running one of Africa's biggest space programmes in a bid to combat flooding, urban overcrowding and desertification.
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South AfricaSouth African court jails Nigerian oil militant Henry Okah to 24 years in jail over 2010 twin bombings in Abuja.
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ZambiaZambia's ex-President Rupiah Banda denies corruption charges relating to an oil deal signed with a Nigerian company.
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ZambiaZambia's ex-President Rupiah Banda is arrested and charged with abuse of authority over a Nigerian oil deal, officials say.
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At least 25 people are killed as gunmen attack a prison, a police station, a bank and a bar in an eastern Nigerian town, police say.
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Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, regarded as the founding father of African literature, has died after brief illness.
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GabonTwenty-nine people are rescued after a boat carrying about 130 people from Nigeria to Gabon sinks, rescue officials say.
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GabonA wooden boat carrying 160 people has capsized off Nigeria's coast as it was heading towards Gabon, workers in charge of the rescue effort say.
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The number of people killed in a suicide car bomb attack at a bus stop in the Nigerian city of Kano on Monday rises to at least 22, police say.
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At least 20 people die in blasts at a bus station in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, which has been targeted by Boko Haram militants in the past.
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Life in the Nigerian city gripped by a bloody insurgency
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The city of Maiduguri in North East Nigeria is home to the militant Muslim group Boko Haram which has been fighting for Sharia law and has been engaged in a bloody insurgency against the Nigerian state.
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Nigeria's government pardons a key ally of President Goodluck Jonathan who was convicted of stealing millions of dollars.
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United KingdomRelatives of a Briton thought to have been murdered by a Nigerian Islamist militant group say they are saddened and pay tribute to a "lovable rogue".
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The Nigerian FA insists lesbians have not banned from playing in the West Africa country and says Fifa is not investigating the issue.
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A video posted online appears to show the bodies of some of the foreign hostages seized by Nigerian Islamist militant group Ansaru last month.
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ItalyA Nigerian militant group's claims to have killed seven foreign hostages it seized last month are credible, Western governments say.
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United KingdomA Briton held hostage in Nigeria since 16 February "is likely to have been killed" by his captors in "an act of cold-blooded murder", Foreign Secretary William Hague says.
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Diplomats are investigating claims that seven foreign hostages seized last month in Nigeria have been killed.
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Diplomats investigate claims by Nigerian militant group Ansaru that it has killed seven foreign hostages.
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan says his government cannot grant an amnesty to the militant Islamist group Boko Haram because it is not known who its members are or what they want.
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan rejects an amnesty for the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, despite a recent appeal by a Muslim leader.
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Fifa writes to the Nigerian Football Association about claims that lesbians are now banned from playing football there.
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A high court in Nigeria rules that President Goodluck Jonathan is eligible to stand for another term in office in elections due in 2015.
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FranceWhat the French 'kidnap video' reveals about Nigeria's militants
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Cameroon, FranceThe French foreign ministry denies reports that a French family, kidnapped in Cameroon this week, have been freed.
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RussiaFifteen Russian sailors are charged in a court in Nigeria's main city, Lagos, with illegally bringing weapons into the country.
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Nigerian militant group Ansaru says it kidnapped seven foreign workers in a raid in the north of the country that saw a security guard killed.
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Seven foreign workers have been kidnapped by gunmen in northern Nigeria, in the biggest such incident in recent years.
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Nigerian pop singer Susan Oluwabimpe Harvey, popularly known as "Goldie", dies after a sudden illness in Lagos, her manager says.
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Two Nigerian journalists are charged with incitement over the killing of nine vaccinators last week, after airing a programme about polio.
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Burkina FasoNigeria coach Stephen Keshi salutes his players after they beat Burkina Faso 1-0 to win the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time since 1994.
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Burkina FasoSunday Mba scores a magnificent winner as Nigeria win the Africa Cup of Nations for the third time - their first since 1994.
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Three doctors - reportedly from North Korea - have been killed in an attack in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Yobe, officials say.
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Nine female polio vaccinators have been killed in two shootings at health centres in Nigeria's northern state of Kano, police tell the BBC.
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Why would Nigerian Islamists attack revered Muslim leader?
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Nigeria's military says it has killed 17 insurgents in helicopter-backed raids on two training camps belonging to the Boko Haram Islamist group.
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