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Angry youths protest in front of the National television station on fourth day of the nationwide strike on the removal of a fuel subsidy by the government in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. A union representing 20,000 oil and gas workers in Nigeria threatened Thursday it would shut down all production starting Sunday to take part in the crippling nationwide strike over spiraling fuel prices. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria violence escalates

Last updated Friday, January 13, 2012 - 3:43pm

LAGOS, Nigeria -- A major union representing Nigerian oil workers said Thursday it would shut down all production Sunday as part of a nationwide strike now paralyzing a country vital to U.S. oil supplies.

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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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An attendant sells fuel at a petrol station in Lagos , Nigeria, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. Nigeria is ending fuel subsidies, an official said Sunday, a move that is sure to be unpopular in the oil-rich nation where citizens have come to expect cheap fuel as one of their few government benefits. The government has said the move will save the country some $8 billion, some of which will be dedicated to much-needed infrastructure projects. Previous attempts to lift the subsidies have been met with nationwide strike actions. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Riots erupt in Nigeria over gas prices

Sunday Alamba The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 2:20pm

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Protesters furious over spiraling gas prices set fires on an expressway Tuesday and at least one person was killed in the violent unrest after Nigeria's government did away with a subsidy program that had kept fuel costs down for more than two decades.

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At least 61 dead in northeast Nigeria violence

Jon Gamble, Njadvara Musa The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, December 24, 2011 - 8:42am

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- At least 61 people have been killed during several days of fighting in northeast Nigeria between security forces and a radical Muslim sect responsible for a series of increasingly bloody attacks in Africa's most populous nation, authorities said Saturday.

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US warns of possible terror attack in Nigeria

Robyn Dixon Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, November 7, 2011 - 2:41pm

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Days after a series of coordinated attacks in northern Nigeria killed more than 100 people, the U.S. State Department has warned travelers to stay away from three major hotels in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, after learning of a possible new assault.

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Is Nigerian militant group the new al-Qaida?

Robyn Dixon Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, September 19, 2011 - 9:38am

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The signs are ominous: A terrorist group in northern Nigeria claims to have trained with al-Qaida-linked militants in Somalia, and vows to launch international attacks after a deadly bombing last month of the U.N. headquarters in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

The head of U.S. Africa Command, Gen. Carter F. Ham, has warned of the threat of a pan-African al-Qaida-linked terrorism network capable of endangering Western interests across the continent.

And Nigerian intelligence experts have suggested that another al-Qaida affiliate in the region, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, may be supplying personnel, weapons and training to the Nigerian group, Boko Haram.

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Killer phone call? Nigerian officials don't believe it

Staff The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 12:33am

LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s government is assuring people in Africa’s most populous nation: a phone call can’t kill you.

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This image released by Saharareporters shows firefighters and rescue workers after a large explosion struck the United Nations' main office in Nigeria's capital Abuja Friday Aug. 26, 2011, flattening one wing of the building and killing several people. A U.N. official in Geneva called it a bomb attack. The building, located in the same neighborhood as the U.S. embassy and other diplomatic posts in Abuja, had a huge hole punched in it. (AP Photo/Saharareporters)

16 killed in bombing on UN building in Nigeria

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Last updated Friday, August 26, 2011 - 10:11am

ABUJA, Nigeria -- The Nigerian Red Cross says at least 16 people are dead after a car bomb attack on the United Nations' offices in Nigeria's capital of Abuja.

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