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Nigeria airstrike on village in northeast leaves at least 20 fishermen dead
Sep 29, 2021 05:56At least 20 fishermen have been killed in an air strike by the Nigerian military in a village in the country’s conflict-ridden northeast, a report says.
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Nigerian security forces martyr eight Muslim mourners at Arba’een procession in Abuja
Sep 28, 2021 14:53Nigerian police have opened fire on a peaceful procession of Shia Muslims marking Arba’een, the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS), grandson and the third infallible successor of Prophet Muhammad (SAWA), martyring eight people and injuring an unspecified number of others in the capital Abuja.
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Islamic Movement in Nigeria marks Arba’een
Sep 28, 2021 05:59Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria marched for several kilometres along a major road to mark the Arba’een which comes up forty days after the Ashura.
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34 killed in attack on village in northwestern Nigeria
Sep 28, 2021 04:26About three dozen people have been killed and several others injured in an attack by a group of heavily-armed gunmen in a village in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kaduna.
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1 million Nigerian children to miss school due to mass kidnappings: UNICEF
Sep 16, 2021 01:29At least one million Nigerian children could miss school this year as the new term begins amid a rise in mass school kidnappings and insecurity, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said on Wednesday.
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75 abducted students freed in NW Nigeria amid army crackdown on criminal gangs
Sep 14, 2021 01:02Dozens of students who were kidnapped from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara earlier this month have been reportedly released after the army began a military crackdown on criminal gangs in the area.
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Gunmen kill 12 in raid on military base in northwest Nigeria
Sep 13, 2021 10:07Gunmen have killed 12 Nigerian security forces in a raid on a military base in northwest Zamfara state, before stealing weapons and torching buildings.
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Gunmen kidnap 73 students from school in northwestern Nigeria
Sep 02, 2021 03:50Unknown gunmen have attacked a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara and kidnapped 73 students, just days after three other groups of hostages were freed when large ransom payments were reportedly made in the African country.
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Kidnapped schoolchildren freed in Nigeria after three months
Aug 27, 2021 14:44A number of abducted children in northern Nigeria have been freed from captivity after three months and are waiting to be reunited with their families.
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Over 20 killed in weekend raids across northwest Nigeria
Aug 24, 2021 02:56More than 20 people have been killed in two separate attacks in Nigeria’s troubled northwest.