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NIGERIA: State radio reporter nearly killed by angry crowd

New York, March 11, 2010—An angry crowd of mourners attending a mass funeral in Dogo Nahawa, central Nigeria, assaulted state radio reporter Murtala Sani on Monday. Sani, a reporter for the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, was assigned to cover the funeral of more than 40 people killed during a bloody March 7 attack on four villages in central Nigeria.

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Try Turai For Kidnapping Yar’Adua —Soyinka-PM News, Lagos

Women_rights_Lagos_rally_3 Women_rights_Lagos_rally_2 Women_rights_Lagos_rally_5 Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called for criminal proceedings against Turai Yar’Adua for kidnapping and abusing the ailing President. Soyinka spoke this morning at the International Women’s Day March, organised by Women Arise, a Non-Government Organisation (NGO) coordinated by the National President, Campaign for Democracy, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin.

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Breaking News: The Guardian hero, Stanley Macebuh, is dead

Stanley Macebuh, the Columbia-educated philosopher renowned for revamping journalism in Nigeria when he midwifed the birth of The Guardian in 1983, is dead.

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Scores killed in clashes near Jos - Reuters

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Scores of people were killed in clashes on Sunday between pastoralists and villagers close to the central Nigerian city of Jos, where sectarian violence killed hundreds in January, witnesses said.

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