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Nigerian Crash Pilot Was American

10 dead confirmed on ground, but many more expected

(Newser) - The pilot of yesterday's tragic plane crash in Lagos that killed at least 163 people was American, reports CNN . The pilot radioed minutes before crashing that the plane was experiencing engine trouble. Dana Air has released no official information about the pilot yet, but a spokesman said that the...

Nigeria Plane Crash Kills 153: Officials

Dana Air flight hits 2-story building in Lagos

(Newser) - A passenger plane crashed into a two-story building in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos today, killing all the passengers on board, an aviation official said. The Lagos state government said in a statement that 153 people were on the flight going from Abuja to Lagos. The plane crashed in...

Nigerian State Playing Matchmaker for Thousands

Seeks to remedy apparently soaring divorce rate

(Newser) - Nigeria's Kano state is worried: The number of divorces appears to be skyrocketing. And a divorced woman there faces a raft of problems—she may be shunned, in some cases forced to beg or prostitute herself to support her family. So the state government is taking the matter into...

Second Blast in 2 Days Hits Nigeria

Several hospitalized following explosion

(Newser) - Several people have been hospitalized after an explosion near Nigerian government buildings. Police gathered at a road junction where the explosion occurred, near the headquarters of the governor of Taraba, a normally calm state that borders Cameroon, the AP reports. It's the latest in a series of recent blasts...

Red Cross: 16 Killed in Nigeria University Attack

Bayero University strike resembles assaults by Islamist sect

(Newser) - Gunmen attacked church services on a university campus today in northern Nigeria, using small explosives to draw out and gun down panicking worshipers in an assault that killed at least 16 people, officials said. The attackers targeted an old section of Bayero University's campus where religious groups use a...

Whoops: Photogs Shatter $300K Sculpture

2,600-year-old art piece was being moved for a shot

(Newser) - A treasured Nigerian sculpture survived for 2,600 years—until photographers dropped it during a shoot last year, irreparably shattering it, according to a lawsuit. Plaintiff Corice Amran says photographers visited her in May to photograph her piece of Nok artwork for Art + Auction; they decided to move the...

6 Killed at Nigerian Newspaper Offices

Car bombers attack buildings in Abuja, Kaduna

(Newser) - A suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives today at the office of a major Nigerian newspaper in the country's capital and another man threw a bomb near another newspaper office in Kaduna, killing at least six people in the attacks, witnesses said. The attack in Abuja struck...

Nigeria Bomb Toll Hits 38
 Nigeria Bomb Toll Hits 38 
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Apr 8, 2012 12:12 PM CDT

Nigeria Bomb Toll Hits 38

Boko Haram thought to be behind Easter bombing in Kaduna

(Newser) - A car bomb exploded along a busy roadway this morning in a central Nigeria city, killing at least 38 people in the latest attack on a region beset by religious, ethnic, and political violence, an official said. The blast struck Kaduna, leaving charred motorcycles and debris strewn across a major...

Nigeria Bomb Kills at Least 5
  Nigeria Bomb Kills at Least 5 
Apr 8, 2012 7:23 AM CDT

Nigeria Bomb Kills at Least 5

Death toll expected to climb in Easter violence

(Newser) - A car bomb killed at least five people today in a central Nigerian city that has seen hundreds die in religious and ethnic violence in recent years, amid warnings by diplomats of possible terrorist attacks during the Easter holiday, officials said. The blast struck Kaduna, the capital of Kaduna state,...

Feds: AT&T Put Fraud on Government Tab

Service for the deaf was abused by Nigerian scammers

(Newser) - The Justice Department has accused AT&T of bilking the government out of more than $16 million by purposely allowing Nigerian fraudsters to abuse a service intended to help deaf Americans. AT&T says it's just following FCC rules requiring it to offer a free IP Relay service, which...

Car Bomb Kills 10 at Nigeria Church

Boko Haram suspected in Jos suicide bombing

(Newser) - A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church today in the middle of Mass, killing at least 10 people in the latest violence targeting a church, a state official said. The bomb detonated as worshippers attended the final Mass of the day at St. Finbar's Catholic Church in Jos,...

British, Italian Hostages Die in Failed Nigeria Rescue

David Cameron says last-chance mission to save pair fails

(Newser) - One British and one Italian hostage held in Nigeria have been killed during a rescue attempt by Nigerian and UK forces, British Prime Minister David Cameron said today. Chris McManus and Franco Lamolinara, both engineers, were captured in northern Nigeria in May. Cameron says it looks as if both hostages...

Woman Scams Nigerian Scammers

 Woman Scams 
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Feb 26, 2012 7:00 AM CST

Woman Scams Nigerian Scammers

Aussie was supposed to keep 8% of scam, kept 100%

(Newser) - Most of us just want to throttle the scam artists that line our spam boxes with get-rich-quick schemes and pleas for help with million-dollar bank transfers, but Sarah Jane Cochrane-Ramsey went one better: She scammed the cons who were using her in their scam, reports the Courier-Mail . Seems the 23-year-old...

Underwear Bomber Gets Life in Prison

No surprise after guilty plea

(Newser) - A Nigerian man on a suicide mission for al-Qaeda was sentenced today to life in prison for attempting to blow up an international flight with a bomb in his underwear as the plane approached Detroit on Christmas 2009. The mandatory punishment for Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the well-educated son of a...

143 Dead in Nigeria Attacks
 143 Dead in Nigeria Attacks 
Jan 21, 2012 10:00 AM CST

143 Dead in Nigeria Attacks

Islamic sect Boko Haram claims responsibility

(Newser) - An official at a hospital in northern Nigeria says at least 143 people have been killed in coordinated attacks in the nation's second largest city. The radical Islamic sect known as Boko Haram claimed responsibility for yesterday's violence in Kano, a city of more than 9 million people...

Nigeria Cuts Fuel Prices, Halting Strikes

But some say renewed subsidies fall short

(Newser) - Strikes that shut down Nigeria's economy last week are off—at least temporarily—after the country's president announced new fuel subsidies. President Goodluck Jonathan has slashed fuel prices by a third to 97 naira per liter, or $2.27 per gallon, after they more than doubled Jan. 1,...

Enemy Boko Haram Has Infiltrated Gov't: Nigeria Prez

Goodluck Jonathan comments on Boko Haram

(Newser) - Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan warned yesterday that supporters of the violent Islamic group Boko Haram , which organized a wave of bombings over Christmas that killed dozens of people, have infiltrated the government and military at all levels, reports the BBC . "Some of them are in the executive arm...

Terror&#39;s New Home: Africa
 Terror's New Home: Africa 
Jan 8, 2012 9:01 AM CST

Terror's New Home: Africa

Islamist network stretches across continent, taking refuge in Sahara

(Newser) - On Christmas day, a car full of explosives plowed into a Catholic Church in Nigeria, killing dozens of people . A radical Muslim group named Boko Haram proudly claimed credit, saying it was trying to kill Christians. As recently as 2009, Boko Haram was a local Nigerian group, bloodily crafting a...

Nigeria Declares Emergency After Attacks

It's battling radical sect Boko Haram

(Newser) - Nigeria's president today declared a state of emergency in parts of Africa's most populous nation, after a recent slew of deadly attacks blamed on a radical Muslim sect killed dozens of people. President Goodluck Jonathan declared an indefinite state of emergency in four states, which would all allow...

Nigeria Church Bombings Kill at Least 10
 Nigerian Blasts 
 Kill at Least 39 
updated
Dec 25, 2011 5:28 PM CST

Nigerian Blasts Kill at Least 39

Muslim extremists Boko Haram thought to be responsible

(Newser) - Terror attacks across Nigeria by a radical Muslim sect killed at least 39 people today, with the majority dying on the steps of a Catholic church after celebrating Christmas Mass as blood pooled in dust from a massive explosion. Authorities acknowledged they could not bring enough emergency medical personnel to...

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