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BBC
| 11 months ago
Clashes have occurred in Nigeria's central city of Jos in Nigeria after a ban on motorcycle taxis was imposed there amid security concerns. Motorcyclists fought with authorities trying to enforce the ban on Wednesday, two days after it was announced...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
Suspected Islamist militants launched two separate attacks on churches in northern Nigeria yesterday (Sunday), killing several people. Five gunmen sprayed bullets into crowds of worshippers waiting for the start of a Sunday service in Biu Town in...
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Africa Headlines
| 12 months ago
In Jos, a suicide bomber drove into the auditorium of Christ Chosen Church, along Rukuba Road in Jos North LGA, during worship hours, in a bomb-laden car which exploded, killing no fewer than 10 worshippers and over 60 critically injured. In Biu,...
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Africa Headlines
| 12 months ago
In Jos, a suicide bomb attack on a church left the suicide bomber and two others dead. Several others have been hospitalised at the Plateau Specialist Hospital and Bingham University Teaching Hospital as a result of injuries from the blast...A yet to...
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AP Online
| 12 months ago
Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria say they have freed Christian Obodo, a midfielder for Italy's Udinese football club who was kidnapped in the country's oil-rich delta.
Delta state police spokesman Charles Muka said that officers found...
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Africa Headlines
| 12 months ago
Our Correspondent gathered the incident occurred at exactly 9:00am when the gunmen opened fire on the congregation and immediatly fled the scene without being arrested. A pastor of one of the churches in Biu, who did not want his name in print told...
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Taiwan News
| 12 months ago
A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives Sunday outside a church in central Nigeria as gunmen attacked another church in the nation's northeast, killing at least four people and wounding dozens of others in the latest attacks targeting Christian...
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Epoch Times
| 12 months ago
June 10, 2012 Two churches were attacked during Sunday services in Nigeria killing several people, a tactic commonly used by the Islamist sect Boko Haram. At least 41 people were injured in the attacks, according to reports. Witnesses told Reuters...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
VOA News June 10, 2012 Nigerian authorities say gunmen and a suicide bomber targeted two Christian churches on Sunday, killing 3 people and wounding at least 41. The attacks took place in the country's restive northeastern region and the so-called "...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
A suicide bomber drove his car at a church in central Nigeria while gunmen opened fire on another church in the northeast Sunday, killing at least three and wounding dozens, officials said. The assaults were the latest in a series targeting churches...
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Novinite
| 12 months ago
Attacks against Churches Kill Dozens in Nigeria World June 10, 2012, Sunday 7 views Two separate attacks carried out in churches during Sunday service in Nigeria are feared to have caused the deaths of dozens. A suicide bomber blew himself up near a...
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News 24
| 12 months ago
Scores of people were feared dead on Sunday after a bomb attack on a church in the central Nigerian city of Jos during a Sunday service, the government said. Government spokesman Pam Ayuba said a bomb exploded near the church, adding that government...
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Zee News
| 12 months ago
The bomber drove a car to the entrance of an evangelical Lord's Chosen Church and blew it up in Rukuba area of the Jos city, a flash point of religious clashes, eyewitnesses said. In another attack, gunmen fired at people outside a church before...
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The Observer
| 12 months ago
Two churches were attacked on Sunday by suspected Islamist terrorists. Photograph: George Osodi/AP Two churches in northern and central Nigeria have been attacked, with gunmen spraying the congregation of one with bullets and a suicide bomber blowing...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 months ago
The attacks are the latest religious violence in a country under increasing assault by a radical Islamist sect. In Jos, a city on the uneasy dividing line between Nigeria's largely Muslim north and Christian south, the suicide car bomber drove into...
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CNN
| 12 months ago
Nigerian church blast From Hassan John , For CNN updated 8:55 AM EDT, Sun June 10, 2012 Jos, Nigeria (CNN) -- At least five people were killed in an explosion that leveled a church in Jos, Nigeria, during services Sunday. Witnesses said a suicide...
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AP Online
| 12 months ago
JOS, Nigeria (AP) — Witnesses say a bomb has exploded at a church in a restive central Nigerian city on the dividing line between the nation's Muslim north and Christian south, causing unknown injuries.
The blast happened Sunday morning...
