| 5,686,672 |
7.38778 |
3.89639 |
Nigeria |
|
Muslim students at the Ibadan University in southern Nigeria appealing for the "outright expulsion" of a female student there for "preaching against Islam" led to a complete halt of academic and commercial activities due to riot disruption. |
| 5,686,675 |
6.45306 |
3.39583 |
Nigeria |
|
Thousands of angry residents of Lekki and Ajah in Lagos protested the toll gate on the Lekki-Epe Expressway mooted by the Lekki Concession Company (LCC), the consessionaires. They said they would resist the state government and the concessionaires in their bid to impose the toll. |
| 5,686,678 |
6.20064 |
6.73385 |
Nigeria |
|
A group of Nigerian women in the country's oil-rich south said Friday they had blocked access to a Chevron natural gas pipeline to protest poor living conditions in their community. |
| 5,686,682 |
6.45306 |
3.39583 |
Nigeria |
|
The forceful repossession of residential schemes at the Federal Housing Authority Estate has led to several reports of unidentified armed thugs harrassing, attacking nad beating civilians. |
| 5,686,688 |
12.98943 |
7.60063 |
Nigeria |
|
A rally called by a group sympathetic to President Goodluck Jonathan's presidential bid was yesterday stopped by the Katsina State Police Command. The event was prevented as riot policemen barricaded the entrance to the office complex and drove both supporters and onlookers away from the area. |
| 5,686,693 |
10.31344 |
9.84327 |
Nigeria |
|
Gunmen have abducted the 10-year-old son of a Nigerian politician planning to run for a seat in upcoming National Assembly elections. The boy, who was abducted from his home, is the son of Garba Dahiru, a former state finance commissioner planning to contest next year's elections under the ruling Peoples Democratic Party banner. |
| 5,686,696 |
7.621 |
5.2215 |
Nigeria |
|
For several hours the combined team of security operatives prevented the students of the University of Ado Ekiti, UNAD, from disrupting a public lecture organised by the university, as the students trooped out in large numbers protesting what they described as astronomical hike in school fees. |
| 5,686,699 |
9.61389 |
6.55694 |
Nigeria |
|
Over 200 women employed by a private environmental agency through the state government to provide cleaning services in the city took to the streets of Minna and marched to the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) to protest against the non-payment of their salaries. |
| 5,686,703 |
4.77742 |
7.0134 |
Nigeria |
|
Soboma George, a one-time militant leader who accepted a government amnesty last year, was shot during a gunfight in the oil hub of Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers state, before being taken away by gunmen. Security sources said George, who originally led a gang called the Outlaws and has a significant following in Rivers state, had been killed in the shootout. |
| 5,686,707 |
11.84644 |
13.16027 |
Nigeria |
|
Members of the outlawed Boko Haram sect appeared to have resorted to guerrilla warfare as they waylaid and shot dead three policemen in Damaturu and Maiduguri. |
