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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.
ItalyThe man suspected of planning the kidnapping of a Briton and an Italian man in Nigeria dies in police custody, according to officials.
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A police helicopter crashed in a residential area in the central Nigerian city of Jos, killing four people, officials say.
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United KingdomUK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond tells MPs that the attempted rescue of a British and Italian hostage in Nigeria was their "best chance".
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A suspected suicide car bombing at a Roman Catholic church in the Nigerian city of Jos kills at least 10 people, officials say.
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Italy, United KingdomItaly and Britain's foreign ministers move to defuse the diplomatic row that erupted over a failed hostage rescue in Nigeria.
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Italy, United KingdomItaly's foreign minister asks Britain to provide "utmost clarity" within "hours" about the failed attempt to rescue a Briton and Italian in Nigeria, as a row over the handling of the operation deepens.
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Italy, United KingdomA British engineer and his Italian colleague, who were abducted in Nigeria last year, have died in a failed rescue attempt, David Cameron says.
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A high-ranking Nigerian customs officer has been shot dead by gunmen thought to be from the militant Islamist sect Boko Haram, police say.
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United StatesA fire that killed two workers and destroyed a gas exploration rig off Nigeria's south-east coast goes out after 46 days, US oil and gas firm Chevron says.
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Thousands of people in south-eastern Nigerian attend the funeral of former Biafran secessionist leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu.
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GuineaTwo members of a cargo ship crew are kidnapped in a pirate attack in the Gulf of Guinea, the international maritime watchdog says
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Unconfirmed reports say 3 policemen have been killed, in northern Nigeria, in gun attacks in a stronghold of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram.
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How a convicted thief became one of Nigeria's most powerful men
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United KingdomJames Ibori, a former governor of one of Nigeria's oil-producing states, pleads guilty on money-laundering and fraud charges worth a total of $250m (£160m).
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A suicide car bomb attack on a church in the Nigerian city of Jos kills three people and sparks bloody reprisal attacks.
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A gun and bomb attack kills at least four people in the northern Nigerian city of Gombe, amid an upsurge in religious and ethnic violence.
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A Nigerian school is set alight - the second non-religious school in the Islamist militant stronghold of Maiduguri to be targeted this week.
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NigerA gas-fuelled fire, with flames as high as 5m, may burn for months in waters off the Niger Delta in south-east Nigeria, a Chevron spokesperson tells the BBC.
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SenegalFormer Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo is to meet Senegal's opposition to try to defuse rising tensions ahead of Sunday's elections.
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Nigerian security forces say they have killed at least eight members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in the north-east city of Maiduguri.
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United StatesA Nigerian man who admitted trying to bomb a US-bound flight on Christmas Day 2009 is sentenced to life in prison by a court in Detroit.
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Gunmen in Nigeria free more than 100 inmates from a jail in the centre of the country, with Islamist group Boko Haram claiming responsibility for the attack.
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A Nigerian bomb disposal officer is killed when an explosive device he was trying to defuse went off, a police spokesperson says.
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Poverty rises in Nigeria, with almost 100 million people living on less than a $1 a day, despite strong economic growth, statistics show.
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A man suspected of masterminding the deadly Nigerian bombing of a church on the outskirts of Abuja on Christmas Day has been recaptured, officials say.
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Nigeria's ex-corruption chief Nuhu Ribadu says he views his appointment as chair of a new task force to police the oil sector as a national calling.
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Nigeria's militant Islamists say they are behind Tuesday's suicide bombing at the army headquarters in the northern city of Kaduna.
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Some four hundred children have been killed and many more are at risk after the world's worst lead poisoning epidemic in northern Nigeria.
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A man in military uniform blows himself up outside a Nigerian army barracks in the city of Kaduna, which is also rocked by other blasts, officials say.
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Explosions have hit a police station in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, scene of deadly attacks last month, and a market in Maiduguri to the west.
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Suspected militants say they have attacked an oil pipeline in Nigeria, in what would be the first such attack since 2010.
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Is Nigerian army killing innocent Muslims after militant attacks?
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Nigerian police arrest Abul Qaqa, who serves as spokesman for the Boko Haram militant group which has carried out scores of attacks recently.
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Thousands of mourners in Nigeria's capital attend the burial service for people killed at a church bombed by Islamist militants on Christmas Day.
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A close aide to former Nigerian military ruler Sani Abacha appeals against his hanging sentence for killing the wife of politician Moshood Abiola.
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A judge in Nigeria drops fraud charges against one of Nigeria's most powerful politicians, former House of Representatives speaker Dimeji Bankole.
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Despite recent violence in the country, Nigeria is still at the heart of an economic renaissance on the African Continent
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A close aide to former Nigerian military ruler Sani Abacha is sentenced to hang for killing the wife of politician Moshood Abiola.
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Two civilians have died in an attack on a police post in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, police confirm.
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The Nigerian army shoots dead 11 members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in the north-east, a spokesman says.
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Christian classes shunned by fearful parents in northern Nigeria
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Gunmen in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state kill at least 15 village traders returning from a market at night.
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