| December 4, 2008 | - In the Nigerian state of Akwa Ibom, police arrested a man who claimed to have killed 110 witch-children, although the man later insisted that he had only exorcised the children of their witchiness.
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BBC News
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| November 14, 2008 | -
Nigerian police discovered a massive baby farm in the city of Enugu.
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AFP via News.com.au
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| September 21, 2008 | -
Oil facilities and pipelines in Nigeria were attacked by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which declared that it would “continue to nibble every day at the oil infrastructure in Nigeria until the oil exports reach zero.”
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
The New York Times
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| August 31, 2008 | -
Nigerian religious leader Mohammadu Bello Abubakar, who is 84, accepted an Islamic decree that would force him to divorce 82, or 95 percent, of his 86 wives.
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BBC
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| July 2, 2007 | - In Nigeria, where the price of machetes has dropped by 50 percent since the end of the April elections, a kidnapped British three-year-old was released after four days.
| Source 1:
CNN.com
Source 2:
Reuters
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| February 14, 2007 | -
Nigeria's House of Representatives introduced a new bill that would criminalize homosexual relations.
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BBC
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| February 7, 2007 | - Nigerian rebel leader Major General Tamuno announced that an upcoming offensive dubbed “Operation Black Locust” would “take lives,” “destroy lives,” and “crumble the economy.”
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CNN
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| December 7, 2006 | - A fish festival in Nigeria banned fish.
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BBC News
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| September 15, 2006 | - A Nigerian man accused of murder explained to authorities that he had actually killed a rogue goat with an axe, but the dead goat had then turned into the corpse of his brother.
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AP via the Buzz
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| June 28, 2006 | - In Nigeria a professor at Olabisi Onabanjo University was found dead behind Poopola Hospital in Ijebu-Igbo; Professor Oyedola is believed to have been killed by one of two warring campus cults--either the Eiye Confraternity or the Buccaneers.
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Vanguard
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| May 17, 2006 | -
Scottish scientist Klaus Zuberbuhler found that Nigerian putty-nosed male monkeys say "pyow" to warn of leopards and "hack" to warn of eagles. "Pyow," said a monkey. "Hack hack pyow hack hack."
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MSNBC
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| May 13, 2006 | - In Nigeria more than 150 people, some of them stealing fuel from a pipeline, died when the pipeline exploded. "By tomorrow," said a health commissioner, "we will dig a bigger ditch and bury them all."
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 3, 2006 | - Former Liberian president Charles Taylor was caught attempting to flee Nigeria and was sent to Sierra Leone, where he pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of war crimes.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| March 31, 2006 | - Three quarters of Africa's farmland lacked the basic nutrients needed to grow crops. "We must," said Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, "feed our soils."
| Source:
The New York Times
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| March 10, 2006 | - The Nigerian government, hoping to avoid the panic and rioting that broke out during the eclipse of 2001, warned its citizens that they may experience "psychological discomfort" during the eclipse of March 29.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| February 19, 2006 | - Riots over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad continued around the world. In Nigeria 16 people were killed in rioting and 11 churches were burned; in Libya at least 10 people were killed; and in Pakistan at least 5 people were killed. In Volgograd, Russia, officials closed the city newspaper after it published a cartoon that showed Muhammad, Jesus, Moses, and Buddha watching TV together. Fifteen thousand people protested the cartoons in London. “We have to speak up,” said a Muslim demonstrator, “to prevent something like the Holocaust from happening.”
| Source 1:
CNN.com
Source 2:
The New York Times
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| January 19, 2006 | -
Nigeria planned to make it a crime, punishable by five years in jail, to participate in or officiate at a same-sex marriage.
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BBC News
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| January 7, 2006 | -
Nigeria decided to halve its prison population by freeing prisoners with terminal illnesses.
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The Jamaica Observer
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| November 25, 2005 | - Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, governor of Bayelsa State, Nigeria, denied that, in order to avoid money-laundering charges, he had fled from the U.K. disguised in a dress.
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BBC News
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| October 23, 2005 | - A jet crashed in Nigeria, killing all 117 people aboard.
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AP
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| June 27, 2005 | - American evangelist Benny Hinn flew to Nigeria in a private jet to hold a three-day crusade, but only a fraction of the expected number of people came out each night. “Four million dollars down the drain,” he shouted from the pulpit.
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BBC News
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| June 1, 2005 | - Police in Nigeria arrested a cow for murder.
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AFP
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| May 12, 2005 | -
Mali sentenced eleven men to jail for refusing to let their children be vaccinated for polio; in Nigeria, several states have banned the vaccine because they believe it will make their daughters sterile.
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BBC News
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| January 14, 2005 | - A four-legged, anus-less, double-penised baby was born in Nigeria.
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news.xinhuanet.com
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| November 17, 2004 | -
Cholera killed 42 in Nigeria.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 30, 2004 | - A penis snatcher was beaten to death in Nigeria.
| Source:
iAfrica
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| September 24, 2004 | - President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria said that the African Union will send thousands of troops to keep the peace in Sudan.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 24, 2004 | -
Nigerian rebels threatened to attack oil wells in the Niger delta.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 6, 2004 | - Two Nigerian policemen were shot and two were stabbed in a battle with wife swappers.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 5, 2004 | - Several Nigerian
sorcerers were arrested after skulls, body parts, and 50 corpses were found in shrines belonging to a cult called Alusi Okija; the chief priest of the cult was not arrested, however, because he's an old man and police didn't want him to die in custody.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| June 4, 2004 | - The Special Court for Sierra Leone, a United Nations-sponsored war-crimes tribunal, opened, though the prime suspect, former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, was enjoying political asylum in Nigeria.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 4, 2004 | - Ethnic violence continued in Nigeria between the Taroks and Fulanis.
| Source:
Reuters
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| March 2, 2004 | -
Nigeria was looking for ways to "decongest" its death-row facilities.
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Agence France-Presse
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| February 26, 2004 | -
Ivory Coast confirmed a new case of polio; tests confirmed that the polio originated in Nigeria, which has resisted vaccination programs for religious reasons.
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 11, 2004 | - Four Nigerians were charged with stealing a 13-year-old boy's eyes to use in an invisibility potion.
| Source:
The Age
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| January 19, 2004 | -
Polio was spreading from Nigeria to other countries in Africa.
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AllAfrica.com
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| January 2, 2004 | - A French magistrate was thinking about indicting the vice president in a bribery case involving a gas liquefication factory built by Halliburton in Nigeria.
| Source:
Nation
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| October 8, 2003 | - Transparency International released its annual corruption survey; Bangladesh was rated most corrupt, just beating out Nigeria and Haiti. Finland, Iceland, and Denmark were the least corrupt.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| August 28, 2003 | - In Nigeria, the young mother who was sentenced to death by stoning for having a child out of wedlock begged for mercy as she nursed her baby in court; her lawyers argued that the child was conceived while the mother was married and that under Islamic Law a baby can gestate in its mother's womb for five years.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 26, 2002 | -
A Nigerian man confessed to chopping up his boss after a payment dispute and making her into pepper soup.
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| November 20, 2001 | - A grave digger in Nigeria was arrested trying to sell two fresh human heads, which he was carrying in a bag; many Nigerians believe that human genitals, tongues, eyes, and skulls are good for casting spells.
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| October 16, 2001 | - In Nigeria, a pregnant woman was sentenced to death by stoning for the crime of premarital sex.
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| September 18, 2001 | - Ethnic and religious violence continued in Jos, Nigeria, where at least 165 people died and 928 were wounded.
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| August 14, 2001 | - In Nigeria, an Islamic court refused to allow a woman to divorce her husband because his penis was too large.
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| August 7, 2001 | - A single snake, which reportedly can be seen only by women and which disappears after striking, was being blamed for killing seven women in Kano, Nigeria.
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| August 7, 2001 | -
Nigeria announced a new $100 million space program.
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| July 10, 2001 | - In Nigeria, Muslim Hausas and Christian Jarawas continued to kill one another, as did members of the Azara and Tiv peoples.
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| June 19, 2001 | -
Bauchi became the eleventh Nigerian state to adopt Islamic law.
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| May 1, 2001 | - African leaders at an AIDS conference in Nigeria called on all African nations to spend 15 percent of their national budgets on health programs, which would double or triple what most of the countries now spend.
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| February 13, 2001 | - Political violence continued in Afghanistan, China, Colombia, Congo, Ecuador, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Kashmir, Liberia, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere.
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| January 23, 2001 | - An Islamic court in Nigeria carried out the public flogging of a teenage girl who was forced to have sex with three men; after receiving her 100 lashes, Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, who gave birth to a daughter last month, thanked Allah for her punishment and walked home to her village.
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| January 23, 2001 | - Starving Nigerians were stealing grain from anthills.
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