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22 killed in Nigeria suicide blasts
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Abuja [Nigeria], Feb 17 (ANI): The death toll in Friday's suicide bomb attack in Nigeria's busy market has reached 22.
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Oil tanker with 22 Indians goes missing off West African coast: MEA
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 4 (ANI): The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Sunday informed that an oil tanker with 22 Indian nationals onboard is presumably missing off the coast of Benin in the Gulf of Guinea.
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Over 5,000 Muslims killed in Boko Haram violence, reveals Islamic body dat
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Abuja [Nigeria], Jan. 01 (ANI): Up to 5,247 Muslims have been killed in the Boko Haram violence in seven local government areas of Adamawa town in northern Nigeria between 2013 and 2017.
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Three female suicide bombers kill 30 in Nigeria
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Abuja [Nigeria], August 16 (ANI):At least 30 people were killed and more than 80 others injured when three female suicide bombers detonated their explosive belts in the town of Mandarari, in Nigeria's Borno State, a stronghold of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, on Tuesday.
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12 killed in Lone wolf attack at Catholic church in Nigeria
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Abuja [Nigeria], August 6 (ANI):A gunman killed 12 worshippers and injured several in an early morning attack on Sunday at St. Philip Catholic Church, Ozubulu in Anambra state in south-eastern Nigeria.
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Rescued Chibok girls reunited with families
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Abbuja [Nigeria], May21 (ANI): The dozens of Nigerian schoolgirls, who were released by Boko Haram militants on May 7 following a deal with the Nigerian authorities, have finally been reunited with their families. Authorities had taken the 82 freed Chibok girls to Abuja after their release e
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Terror attacks on U.K., U.S. embassies foiled, say Nigerian police
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Lagos [Nigeria], Apr 12 (ANI): Nigeria's Secret Police on Wednesday said that it had foiled a plot by Boko Haram terrorists to carry out attacks on embassies of the United Kingdom and the United States as well as other Western targets in the country's capital Abuja.
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VP Ansari arrives in Lagos after Abuja visit
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Lagos [Nigeria], Sept. 28 (ANI): India's Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari on Wednesday arrived in Lagos from capital city Abuja on the second leg of his four-day official visit to Nigeria.
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Need to restructure international legal framework, adopt CCIT to defeat te
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Abuja [Nigeria], Sept. 28 (ANI): Asserting that the biggest threat to international peace and to the sovereignty of states today is terrorism, Vice President of India, Mohammed Hamid Ansari said that terrorism can only be defeated by organized international action, adding we need to restruct
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Vice President Ansari inaugurates High Commission of India Chancery comple
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Abuja [Nigeria], Sept. 27 (ANI): Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari, who arrived in Lagos, Nigeria for a five-day official visit to Nigeria and Mali inaugurated the High Commission of India Chancery complex in Abuja and interacted with the members of the Indian community.
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