Abuja

Abuja

• Nigeria lawmakers pass anti-gay marriage bill

  Nigeria's House of Representatives voted Thursday to ban gay marriage and outlaw any groups actively supporting gay rights, endorsing a measure that ... 

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  Official: Nigeria military attacks camps, kills 21

  Soldiers in Nigeria launched their first raid against suspected Islamic extremists in a campaign to take back control of the nation's northeast, ... 

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  Death toll in Nigeria police attack rises to 30

  Heavily armed and under orders to break up an ethnic militia, a combined force of Nigerian police officers and agents of the country's domestic spy ... 

• Nigeria reporters face criminal charges for story

  Prosecutors filed criminal charges Tuesday against two journalists at a Nigerian newspaper over a story they published on alleged plans by the ... 

• 18 killed in head-on bus crash in central Nigeria

  Authorities say 18 people have been killed in a head-on collision between two buses in central Nigeria. Jonas Agwu, a spokesman for Nigeria's Federal ... 

• France: Discretion needed to free Nigeria hostages

  France is adopting a "determined and discrete" approach to safeguard the lives of eight French hostages kidnapped by extremist groups in and near ... 

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  Nigeria summons US official over tweets on pardon

  Nigeria's foreign ministry summoned a top U.S. diplomat Friday night over an issue of national importance — on Twitter. At dispute are two messages ... 

• Nigeria: Video shows bodies of foreign hostages

  A video posted online appears to show the corpses of some of the seven foreign hostages abducted by Islamic extremists in northern Nigeria and later ... 

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  Hostage killings a new, dangerous turn for Nigeria

  Radical Islamic fighters killed seven foreign hostages in Nigeria, European diplomats said Sunday, making it the worst such kidnapping violence in ... 

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  Nigeria extremists claim abduction of 7 foreigners

  A little-known Islamic extremist group claimed responsibility Monday for the kidnapping of seven foreign workers from northern Nigeria, threatening ... 

• Nigeria president likens nation's unrest to Syria

  Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has likened attacks by a radical Islamist sect in his West African nation to the ongoing civil war in Syria, an ...