| 5,677,729 |
6.44258 |
7.5022 |
Nigeria |
|
Sometime last month |
| 5,676,737 |
5.37323 |
6.11065 |
Nigeria |
|
Two expatriate workers of a contractor firm working for Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell have been taken hos-tage by a protesting group. An Ijaw militant group calling themselves ''Enough is Enough'' took responsibility and demanded ransom |
| 5,676,741 |
4.79976 |
6.84567 |
Nigeria |
|
Three are killed when an armed group attacked a Bayelsa State village in an effort to free two local oil workers being held hostage there. |
| 5,676,744 |
9.08333 |
7.53333 |
Nigeria |
|
Protesters who claimed to be widows and orphans of the ethnic cleansing allegedly master minded by Gen. T.Y. Danjuma and his Chamba kinsmen in Taraba State, this morning stormed the National Assembly praying the legislators not to ratify Gen. Danjuma's nomination as a minister |
| 5,676,748 |
8.88333 |
11.36667 |
Nigeria |
|
Nigerian police used tear gas to break up a protest by stone-throwing and fire setting government workers demanding salary arrears in northern Taraba State. |
| 5,676,751 |
4.77742 |
7.0134 |
Nigeria |
|
wives of the junior workers of the security department of University of Port Harcourt staged a peaceful demonstration calling for the removal of the vice chancellor after the decision of the management to contract out some jobs hitherto handled by the junior workers |
| 5,676,754 |
6.45306 |
3.39583 |
Nigeria |
|
protesters set fire to a shrine in Lagos after members of a religious cult killed a Ghanian the night before |
| 5,676,757 |
5.23408 |
6.75194 |
Nigeria |
|
Activists claimed to have captured and shut down 61 oil wells and a pipeline flow station operated by Shell Co. in an effort to pressure the government for development funds |
| 5,676,761 |
7.46667 |
4.56667 |
Nigeria |
|
Seven students of Obafemi Awolowo University were murdered by an armed group who invaded the school grounds. |
| 5,676,766 |
7.46667 |
4.56667 |
Nigeria |
|
taking the security of Obafemi Awolowo University into their own hands, students blockaded campus roads, rounded up suspected cult members, and interrogated and beat four students believed to have partaken in the dawn killings of seven students perpetrated by cult members |
