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Attackers with guns and machetes kill 25 people in Nigeria’s Plateau State
JOS, Nigeria: Attackers wielding guns and machetes killed at least two dozen people in central Nigeria’s Plateau State, survivors told AFP on Tuesday, the latest flare-up in a State plagued…
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Three former Algerian presidential candidates sentenced 10 years for corruption
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Trump criticizes Putin over deadly drone barrage in Ukraine, calling him “crazy”
Amid a deadly surge in drone attacks by Russia on Ukraine, U.S. President Donald Trump delivered an unusually harsh critique…
PDP postpones NEC meeting amid internal crisis as Wike pulls out of peace deal
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Sit-at-home protests linked to 700 deaths in Southeast Nigeria
A recent report by a Nigerian intelligence consultancy has revealed that a controversial stay-at-home directive enforced by the outlawed…
Nigeria and a Referendum on Nothing. By Chidi Amuta
Dr. Chidi Amuta is Executive Editor of USAfrica, since 1993. Special to USAfrica magazine (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com, first African-owned, US-based newspaper…