| 5,686,800 |
4.96667 |
8.33333 |
Nigeria |
|
French oil services company Bourbon SA (GBB.FR) confirmed that three employees, all French and crew members of one of its vessels Bourbon Alexandre sailing off the Nigerian coast, have been kidnapped following an attack on the ship. A fourth Thai crew member was later confirmed among the abducted. |
| 5,686,804 |
5.52627 |
7.48959 |
Nigeria |
|
Gunman have hijacked a school bus in Nigeria's Abia state, on the fringes of the oil-producing Niger Delta, and kidnapped 15 children, demanding ransom for their release. |
| 5,686,808 |
9.08333 |
7.53333 |
Nigeria |
|
Nigerian police confirmed on Friday that two blasts in the capital near an official independence day celebration were caused by car bombs which killed 12 people. |
| 5,686,813 |
11.84644 |
13.16027 |
Nigeria |
|
Gunmen attacked the home of Ali Modu, the speaker of the Borno state House of Assembly in a suburb of Maiduguri and killed a security guard. |
| 5,686,818 |
11.84644 |
13.16027 |
Nigeria |
|
Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect gained access to the home of a national vice chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in Maiduguri and killed him. |
| 5,686,823 |
10.31344 |
9.84327 |
Nigeria |
|
Hundreds of inmates at a Nigerian prison rioted over their exclusion from a government amnesty; over 200 prisoners at the jail in northern Nigeria's Bauchi state went on the rampage protesting their non-inclusion in a pardon scheme and torched a section of the prison. |
| 5,686,828 |
11.84644 |
13.16027 |
Nigeria |
|
Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead outspoken clericc Bashir Kashara outside his house in the heart of Maiduguri city. |
| 5,686,832 |
11.84644 |
13.16027 |
Nigeria |
|
Suspected Islamists have attacked and torched a police station in northern Nigeria. Two policemen have been injured in the shootout and are receiving treatment in hospital. |
| 5,686,837 |
11.84644 |
13.16027 |
Nigeria |
|
Motorcycle-riding gunmen have killed a police officer guarding a state official's house in northern Nigeria. |
| 5,686,841 |
10.31344 |
9.84327 |
Nigeria |
|
Gunmen killed two policemen manning a checkpoint in northern Nigeria in the latest in a wave of such shootings that have raised alarm over rebels from an Islamist sect. The attack led authorities to announce that they were banning the night-time use of motorcycles in the city of Bauchi, where the shootings occurred. |
