Boko Haram attacks hit school attendance in Borno State
Source: IRIN
Kano :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-14 06:53:02 -0700 | political-news
Around 15,000 children in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, have stopped attending classes since February 2013, according to a Borno State Ministry of Education official who preferred anonymity, as Boko Haram extremists continue a wave of attacks on state schools.
New Nigeria Islamist video claims attacks, shows hostage...
Source: Qatar English Daily
Kano :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-13 04:00:20 -0700 | travel-news
The purported head of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed two recent deadly attacks in the northeast in a video obtained by AFP Monday, which also depicts women and children apparently being held hostage. The video features Abubakar Shekau,...
Nigeria: Students in Kano Protest Mass Failure in JAMB
Source: Africa Headlines
Kano :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-07 02:24:30 -0700 | political-news
May 2013 Hundreds of students, who sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on Monday in Kano, staged a peaceful demonstration against mass failure and withholding of their results. The students stormed the premises of the Federal Radio Corporation of...
20 killed in sectarian violence in Nigeria
Source: Qatar English Daily
Kano :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-04 14:48:44 -0700 | political-news
At least 20 people were killed in violent clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs in central Nigeria's Taraba state on Friday, prompting a round-the-clock curfew, an aid worker has told AFP. "We have recovered 20 bodies from the violence so...
Africa: The Nation, Most Dangerous Place for Journalists in Africa After Somalia - Report
Source: All Africa
Kano :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-02 14:47:22 -0700 | travel-news
Following increasing anti-press violence and prosecutions especially by government officials and security agencies, Nigeria has emerged as the most dangerous place in Africa, after Somalia, for journalists, a survey released on Thursday morning by global media advocacy organisation, the Committee...
Nigeria: JTF Arrests Four Gunmen, Recovers Arms, Ammunition in Kano
Source: Africa Headlines
Kano :: Nigeria | updated 2013-04-10 04:00:24 -0700 | political-news
The Force also said it recovered arms and ammunition at Gaida Ajawa in Kumbotso Local Government Area of the state. This is contained in a statement by the JTF spokesman, Ikedichi Iweha...Iweha said the suspects were arrested during an early...
Nigeria: Two Airlines Versus Ministry of Aviation
Source: Africa Headlines
Kano :: Nigeria | updated 2013-04-09 00:29:09 -0700 | political-news
The ministry has been accused of refusing to grant the approval needed for the two airlines to fly to Kano; the ministry in turn has insisted that the airlines are free to ply the route. The accusations and counter-accusations have...
Nigeria: Kano Hisba Board Postpones Mass Wedding of 1, 000 Widows
Source: Africa Headlines
Kano :: Nigeria | updated 2013-04-06 15:12:21 -0700 | political-news
The board had completed all the necessary arrangement to conduct the mass wedding in all the 44 Local Governments before the sudden change. The board's Director-General, Alhaji Abba Sufi, disclosed the postponement in an interview with the News Agency of...
Nigeria: Roots of Polio Vaccine Suspicion
Source: Africa Headlines
Kano :: Nigeria | updated 2013-04-05 01:42:15 -0700 | health-news
Kano For years, polio vaccination has faced strong resistance among conservative Islamic communities in northern Nigerian communities, largely due to a deep distrust of the West, persistent rumours that the vaccine is harmful, and the house-to-house approach taken by immunization...
Nigeria: Kano Mass Wedding - HIV Positive, Pregnant Women Discovered at Screening
Source: Africa Headlines
Kano :: Nigeria | updated 2013-04-04 03:08:56 -0700 | health-news
Kano Ahead of the third round of the Kano mass wedding, the Hisbah Board in the state yesterday started screening couples. Our correspondent, who visited the venue of the exercise, gathered that about eight persons among the prospective couples have...
Bollywood In West Africa: Nigeria's Love For And Fascination With Indian Cinema
Source: International Business Times
Kano :: Nigeria | updated 2013-04-03 10:40:38 -0700 | entertainment-news
Mother India But the fascination for Bollywood movies which typically feature handsome heroes, beautiful damsels, endless musical numbers, improbable plots and happy endings has also stretched out to a non-Indian audience in parts of the globe. One unlikely place where...
Central Nigeria ethnic violence kills 19, displaces 4,50...
Source: Qatar English Daily
Kano :: Nigeria | updated 2013-04-02 03:51:19 -0700 | political-news
Weekend attacks on three communities in volatile and ethnically divided central Nigeria have left 19 people dead and displaced some 4,500 others, a local official said on Tuesday. "From the death toll we've compiled, 19 people including women and...
Nigeria: JTF Kills 14 Boko Haram Members in Kano Raid
Source: Africa Headlines
Kano :: Nigeria | updated 2013-04-01 05:30:06 -0700 | disasters-news
Members of the Military Joint Task Force (JTF) yesterday killed 14 suspected members of the Boko Haram sect at Layin Yanawaki in Unguwa Uku quarters in Kano. It was also gathered that a woman, a child and two soldiers died...
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