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FILE - In a Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011 file photo, medical officials try to treat a victim of a bomb blast at a Catholic church near Nigeria's capital at Suleja General Hospital in Suleja, Nigeria. An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital Sunday, killing at least 25 people, officials said. A radical Muslim sect, Boko Haram, claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast. Boko Haram's insurgency started with robed men on motorcycles killing their enemies one at a time across Nigeria's remote and dusty northeast. Now the radical Muslim sect's attacks have morphed into a nationwide sectarian fight. (AP Photo/Dele Jones, File)

Christians targeted in Nigerian violence

Jon Gambrell, Njadvara Musa The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 9, 2012 - 11:32am

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- A radical Muslim sect attacked a church worship service in Nigeria's northeast during assaults that killed at least 15 people, authorities said Saturday, as Christians vowed to defend themselves from the group's widening sectarian fight against the country's government.

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Cable: Pfizer sought dirt on Nigerian official

Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 10, 2010 - 10:31am

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Drug maker Pfizer Inc. hired investigators to uncover "corruption links" to Nigeria's embattled former attorney general in an attempt to stop federal cases over a 1996 drug study, according to a U.S. embassy cable released Friday by WikiLeaks.

Pfizer denied the claims in the cable, calling its contents "simply preposterous."

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Nigeria: Soldiers raid militant camps in oil delta

Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 8:11pm

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Soldiers raided three militant camps Wednesday hidden in the winding creeks of Nigeria's oil-rich and restive southern delta, seizing heavy weaponry in an attack rebels claimed killed more than 100 people.

The attack started Wednesday afternoon in Delta state, an oil-producing state in the middle of Niger Delta, military spokesman Lt. Col. Timothy Antigha said.

Militants in the Niger Delta have attacked pipelines, kidnapped petroleum company employees and fought government troops since 2006. The attacks cut drastically into crude production in Nigeria, an OPEC-member nation that is crucial to U.S. oil supplies. Production has risen back to 2.2 million barrels of oil a day, in part due to many militant leaders and fighters accepting the amnesty deal.

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Arkansas football player, 16, gets his 'last game'

Jon Gambrell The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 7:38pm

YELLVILLE, Ark. -- Kymball Duffy's final football "game" didn't take place under the glow of Friday night lights, but it was impossible to tell by the players and fans who gathered for it in a small Arkansas town.

The 1,300 residents of Yellville, and then some, crowded into a school gymnasium Wednesday to honor the 16-year-old offensive and defensive tackle, who was killed in a rollover truck crash just hours before his Panthers were to host the season's first home game.

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