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Two Americans, two Canadians kidnapped in Nigeria

Lagos - Muslimchronicle

Two American and two Canadians have been kidnapped in an ambush in Kaduna state in northern Nigeria, police told AFP, in the latest abduction targeting foreign nationals. Kaduna police spokesman Mukhtar Aliyu said "unknown armed men" seized the four on the road to Abuja at 7:00 pm (1800 GMT) Tuesday after a "fierce gun battle" that killed two police escorts.Read more

Two Americans, two Canadians kidnapped in Nigeria

Lagos - Muslimchronicle

Two Americans and two Canadians have been kidnapped in an ambush in Kaduna state, northern Nigeria, police said on Wednesday, in the latest abduction targeting foreigners. State police spokesman Mukhtar Aliyu said “unknown armed men” seized the four on the road to Abuja at 7:00 pm (1800 GMT) on Tuesday. “They engaged in a fierce gun battle with the twoRead more

Death toll from Nigeria communal violence reaches 80

Lagos - Muslimchronicle

Eighty people have been killed in Nigeria's central state of Benue since December 31 following clashes between cattle herders and farmers, said an emergency official Tuesday. "80 is the number we can say for now, the attacks have not stopped," Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) executive secretary Emmanuel Shior told AFP. Source: AFP Read more

Nigerian pop music: in the shadow of Fela Kuti

Lagos - Muslimchronicle

Fela Kuti was known as "the King of Afrobeat". Krizbeatz calls himself "the King of AfroDance", the Nigerian music that has got millions dancing across Africa and the world. For Fela, as he is still known to fans, music was often a life-threatening fight against corrupt military dictatorships that ruled Nigeria in the 1970s and 1980s. For the talentedRead more

Security forces, pro-Biafra group clash in Nigeria

Lagos - Muslimchronicle

Tensions mounted between Nigerian security forces and pro-Biafra supporters on Thursday, after renewed protests calling for independence and clashes targeting police. In Port Harcourt, the capital of the southern state of Rivers, 32 people were arrested after two days of demonstrations and the death of one police officer. In neighbouring Abia state, supporters of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)Read more

Over 100,000 people displaced by flooding in central Nigeria

LAGOS - Musimchronicle

Severe floods have displaced more than 100,000 people in central Nigeria. Heavy rains caused the West African nation's second largest river, the Benue, to overflow and flood most of Benue State, an area of 34,000 square kilometres, an emergency services official told dpa. Two people died in the floods, while tens of thousands of homes and farmland were inundated, accordingRead more

Shell warns of safety risks at occupied Nigeria plant

Lagos - AFP

Royal Dutch Shell has raised an alarm over the continuing siege at a Nigerian facility by protesters, saying they could be putting their safety at risk. Hundreds of protesters from the Kula and Belema communities in Nigeria's restless southern Rivers state have occupied the plant since August 11 to press their demands for jobs and better living conditions. "The illegalRead more

Nigeria seizes ex-oil minister's luxury apartments

Lagos - Muslimchronicle

A Nigerian court has confiscated the $37 million luxury apartment complex of a former oil minister accused of fraud and money laundering as well as rental proceeds from the properties. Lagos high court judge Chuka Obiozor on Monday also ordered ex-minister Diezani Alison-Madueke to handover more than $2.7 million (2.3 million euros) that she made leasing the apartments. Since leavingRead more