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by Jacques Lhuillery
LAGOS (AFP) – A Nigerian minister has called on ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua to transfer power, a senior official said Thursday, in the first sign of a cabinet split over his prolonged absence from the country.
Dora Akunyili, who as information minister doubles as the government’s spokeswoman, called on her cabinet colleagues to revoke [...]
LAGOS (AFP) – Police in Nigeria’s central Plateau state have arrested 313 suspects from last week’s inter-religious violence that killed nearly 500 people, a spokesman said Monday.
“We have 313 people arrested,” state police spokesman Mohammed Lerama told AFP. He did not immediately give details of the charges they faced.
Some of those arrested over the last [...]
JOS, Nigeria – Angry Muslim youths set a church filled with worshippers ablaze in northern Nigeria, starting a riot that killed at least 10 people and wounded 69 others in the latest religious violence in the region, officials said Monday.
About 5,000 people lost their homes as rioters also burned mosques and homes in Jos, a [...]