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Nigeria will deploy troops to Guinea Bissau by May 18, Defence Minister Bello Haliru Mohammed said Monday at the opening of a meeting of military officials from the West African regional bloc ECOWAS in Abuja.
At least eight people were killed Thursday in a suicide bombing at the offices of "This Day" newspaper in the Nigerian capital Abuja and another blast at the paper's offices in Kaduna.
Gunmen with explosives killed at least 34 people in the northeastern Nigerian city of Potiskum in an attack on a cattle market Wednesday. Police said one of the perpetrators was doused in petrol and burned to death.
At least 20 people were killed when a car bomb detonated near a church in the Nigerian city of Kaduna on Easter Sunday, the latest in a series of similar attacks. Islamist militants bombed several Nigerian churches on Christmas Day last year.
Nigeria's government has been in "preliminary talks" with the Boko Haram Islamist group behind a series of attacks in recent months, security sources said Friday. The group has been blamed for violence that has left more than 1,000 dead since 2009.
Gunmen shot dead three Christians near the flashpoint Nigerian city of Jos, hours after a suicide bomb attack on a Catholic Church in the same area killed 10 people. A government spokesman said they suspected the attackers were "herdsmen".
Italy condemned the British government Friday for failing to warn it ahead of a botched rescue attempt in northern Nigeria which saw British hostage Chris McManus and his Italian colleague Francesco Molinara killed by their captors.
At least 12 people were killed in the northern Nigerian city of Gombe on Friday after gunmen blew up a police station in an attempted prison break. It was not clear if the attack was the work of Islamist insurgents Boko Haram or criminal gangs.
A car bomb targeted a church during Sunday services in the central Nigerian city of Jos, killing two people. It is the latest in a series of deadly attacks in recent months, most of them claimed by Islamist group Boko Haram.
Nigeria's top military official said Thursday that the radical Islamist group Boko Haram has ties to al Qaeda. Although the group has long been suspected of such links, it was the first public confirmation by Nigeria's security chief.
Gunmen stormed a prison in central Nigeria's Kogi state, 100 kilometres south of the capital Abuja, killing a warden and freeing at least 119 prisoners. An alleged spokesman for the Boko Haram Islamist group later claimed the attack.
Armed militants blew up a police headquarters and shot an officer in the Nigerian city of Kano on Monday as more blasts were reported in Maiduguri, a hotbed of Boko Haram Islamists. Coordinated attacks in Kano last month killed at least 185 people.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's challenge to the Boko Haram group to identify themselves and state their demands, surprised many Nigerians. Boko Haram's identity and demands are no secret. But can talks bring the peace Nigerians seek?
Residents in the northern Nigerian city of Kano said Tuesday they heard explosions and gunshots coming from an area near the police station, following last week's deadly gun battles in which at least 185 people were killed.
When Nigerian police admitted Wednesday that the top suspect in the deadly Christmas Day bombings had escaped police custody, it beggared belief across many sections of Nigerian society and got the rumour mills rolling.
The Islamist sect Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for a series of coordinated bomb attacks targeting security forces in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano on Friday, which left at least seven people dead.
Police in the restive city of Kano in northern Nigeria say at least six people have been killed in a series of bomb attacks, some targeting police stations and local government buildings. The authorities have imposed a curfew across the city.
A top police officer was suspended Tuesday after the main suspect in a series of deadly Christmas Day bombings at Nigerian churches escaped police custody. The suspect is thought to be a member of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

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