NIGERIA
THE FLENSBURGER FILES Did Sandy push the presidential elections back? I hope so.
There is a proverb that I want to start this column on: It is about disaster. When disaster strikes, people chip in to help. When politicians help, disaster strikes again. Therefore, people go first o...
Posted on 10/30/12 at 7:23 PM
Hostage killings a new, dangerous turn for Nigeria 
Radical Islamic fighters killed seven foreign hostages in Nigeria, European diplomats said Sunday, making it the worst such kidnapping violence in decades for a country beset by extremist guerrilla attacks.
By Jon Gambrell , March 10, 2013
10 Things to Know for Monday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday.
By Associated Press , February 17, 2013
Park River, ND, couple building Nigerian clinic
Olukayode Omotunde, a surgeon in the small town of about 1,400, takes an annual trip back home to rural Nigeria every year to perform free medical care.
By TJ Jerke , August 09, 2012
More than 150 killed in Nigeria plane crash
A passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, killing all passengers and crew aboard, an emergency official said.
By Jon Gambrell and Yinka Ibukun , June 03, 2012
Attack doesn’t stop Minnesota Christian couple from Nigeria mission
A Brooklyn Park couple said they’ll return to Nigeria despite being attacked while on a church mission.
By Associated Press , March 26, 2012
Woodbury, Minn., woman forms bond with Nigerian orphan
Of all the love stories in the world, this may be one of the most unlikely.
It began eight years ago, when social worker Karen Cooper met an African boy. It flowered as love triumphed over distance, poverty, unspeakable cruelty, superstition and disease.
By Bob Shaw , March 18, 2012
Nigerian underwear bomber gets life in prison
A Nigerian man on a suicide mission for al-Qaida was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for attempting to blow up an international flight with a bomb in his underwear as the plane approached Detroit on Christmas 2009.
By Ed White , February 16, 2012
Fuel strike suspended by Nigeria unions
Nigeria unions suspended their nationwide strike today, hours after President Goodluck Jonathan partially reinstated subsidies to keep gasoline prices low and after authorities deployed soldiers, who fired over the heads of protesters. However, many Nigerians remain angry that gas prices rose at all.
By Jon Gambrell , January 16, 2012
NIGERIA: Shutdown threatened by oil union amid strike
A major union threatened Thursday to stop the beating heart of Nigeria's economy — crude oil production — as part of a nationwide strike and protests gripping Africa's most populous nation.
By Jon Gambrell and Yinka Ibukun , January 12, 2012
NIGERIA: 5 killed, at least 6 wounded in attack over fuel prices
The Nigerian Red Cross says five people were killed and at least six others wounded in an attack on a mosque and a Quranic school in the country's southwest amid a nationwide strike over fuel prices.
By Jon Gambrell , January 10, 2012
NIGERIA: At least 15 killed in attacks at church, elsewhere in northeast Nigeria
A radical Muslim sect attacked a church worship service in Nigeria's northeast during assaults that killed at least 15 people, authorities said Saturday, as Christians vowed to defend themselves from the group's widening sectarian fight against the country's government.
By Jon Gambrell and Njadvara Musa , January 07, 2012
Gas price protests in Nigeria turn violent
An angry mob protesting spiraling fuel prices assaulted a Nigerian soldier today while police shot another man at the demonstration, a sign of growing unrest over the government's hugely unpopular decision to end a two-decade-old subsidy program that had kept gas affordable.
By Sunday Alamba and Yinka Ibukun , January 03, 2012
Clashes kill 61 in Nigeria
Fighting between a radical Muslim sect and paramilitary forces in Nigeria has killed at least 61 people over several days of violence in the nation's northeast that has left churches bombed and people hiding in fear, authorities said on Saturday.
By Jon Gambrell and Njadvara Musa , December 24, 2011
67 dead in northeast Nigeria overnight attacks
A radical Muslim sect known locally as Boko Haram claimed responsibility today for the attacks, which represent the most coordinated and wide-ranging assault yet in their increasingly bloody sectarian fight with Nigeria's weak central government. The sect, which wants the strict implementation of Shariah law across the nation of more than 160 million people, promised to carry out more attacks.
By Jon Cambrell and Njadvara Musa , November 05, 2011
Nigerian priest, UND grad student seeks to replenish diocesan library lost to fire
The Rev. Vincent Bulus has a destination in mind for any books on philosophy, theology, logic, ethics and other fields that you'd like
By Chuck Haga , November 04, 2011
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