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Hundreds attended Achebe's funeral among the rolling hills of his eastern Nigeria home, a service that saw President Goodluck Jonathan literally hold up the writer's books. The gold plaque ... Trouble With Nigeria" ring true even today in this oil-rich ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51985622/ns/world_news-africa/t/writer-chinua-achebe-h...
NIAMEY/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria has asked its northern neighbor Niger for help in an offensive against Boko Haram insurgents, as West African states try to cooperate against a spread of Islamist violence. An intelligence source in Niger said ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51956190/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/t/nigeria-seek...
LAGOS, Nigeria, May 21 - Nigeria said on Tuesday it would free a number of detained Islamist suspects, including all female ones, in what a senior security source called a move to build popular support for its offensive against Boko Haram militants ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51954798/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-says-free-all-...
MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigeria claimed an early success for its military offensive against Islamist insurgents in the northeast on Monday, saying the militants' activities had been stifled by nearly a week of attacks on their bases. Military officers in the ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51942606/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-says-has-islam...
MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigeria relaxed a curfew on Monday in parts of the northeast where its troops are mounting their biggest offensive yet against militants from the Islamist group Boko Haram. The Nigerian military has sent thousands of extra troops to ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51941577
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria offered an amnesty on Sunday to Islamist militants who surrender and said 17 people had been killed on the fifth day of a military operation to try to crush the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast. In their biggest ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51935476/ns/world_news-europe/
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's military said on Saturday it had killed 10 insurgents and arrested 65 more as part of an offensive meant to wrest back control of parts of its remote northeast from an Islamist group seen as the main security threat to Africa's ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51926997/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-says-rebels-ki...
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's military said on Saturday it had killed 10 insurgents and arrested 65 as part of an offensive meant to wrest back control of parts of its remote northeast from an Islamist group seen as the main security threat to Africa's top ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51926373/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-military-says-...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian warplanes struck militant camps in the northeast on Friday in a major push against an Islamist insurgency, drawing a sharp warning from the United States to respect human rights and not harm civilians. Troops used ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51921249/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-bombs-islamist...
Violence has mostly happened far from the commercial hub, Lagos, or political capital, Abuja, and hundreds of miles away from oilfields in the southeast. Military jets, helicopter gunships and thousands of troops are involved in the current offensive ...http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/17/18320726-nigeria-sends-jets-attack...
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Updated May. 19, 2013
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian warplanes struck militant camps in the northeast on Friday in a major push against an Islamist insurgency, drawing a sharp ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51921249/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-bombs-islamist...
Updated May. 20, 2013
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria offered an amnesty on Sunday to Islamist militants who surrender and said 17 people had been killed on the fifth day of a ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51935476/ns/world_news-europe/t/nigeria-offers-amnesty...
Updated May. 20, 2013
MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigeria claimed an early success for its military offensive against Islamist insurgents in the northeast on Monday, saying the militants ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51942606/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-says-has-islam...
Updated May. 20, 2013
LAGOS, Nigeria — Admitting Islamic extremists now control some of his nation's villages and towns, Nigeria's president declared a state of emergency Tuesday across ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51881680/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-president-decl...
Updated May. 19, 2013
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's military said on Saturday it had killed 10 insurgents and arrested 65 more as part of an offensive meant to wrest back control of parts of ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51926997/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-says-rebels-ki...
Updated May. 23, 2013
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- Nigerian forces used jets and attack helicopters to bombard Islamist militant camps in the northeast on Friday, in their biggest military ...http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/17/18320726-nigeria-sends-jets-attack...
Updated May. 22, 2013
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's military said on Saturday it had killed 10 insurgents and arrested 65 as part of an offensive meant to wrest back control of parts of its ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51926373/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-military-says-...
Updated May. 23, 2013
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria launched a campaign on Wednesday to flush Islamist militants out of bases in its border areas a day after President Goodluck Jonathan ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51889967/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigerias-military-star...
Updated May. 22, 2013
BAGA, Nigeria -- Fighting between Nigeria's military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation's far northeast, officials ...http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/nigeria
Updated May. 21, 2013
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states on Tuesday, ordering in more troops to try to stem ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51884454/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-declares-emerg...
