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Rescue workers have found eight bodies in a collapsed building in the Nigerian city of Lagos. Also 37 people were taken alive from under the rubble, reports the emergency service...

In the Nigerian capital Lagos, a building with a primary school has collapsed. The authorities take into account that many people have died. The rescue services are massive...

More than a hundred people have died in Nigeria in recent weeks because two rivers have left their banks. The NEMA Emergency Agency reported to the BBC that forty people were killed in the Niger state alone.

On the Nigerian highway from Lagos to Ibadan Thursday a tank truck with petrol exploded near a viaduct. Dozens of cars that drove in the neighborhood flew into fire.

In case of an accident with a bus that was dumped from a cliff in the south of Chile, at least two employees of the Chilean army were killed.

Unknown people have opened fire to churchgoers in the village of Omoku in southern Nigeria. Certainly seventeen people were killed. According to one official, the victims left the Mass on Monday for the New Year when they were attacked.

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A Nigerian court has seized money and property of former Minister of Oil, Diezani Alison-Madueke. This includes a property worth approximately 33 million euros, reported state agency NAN Thursday.

Two minibuses with at least eighteen passengers were bumped on fire on a busy road between Lagos and Ibadan in southern Nigeria on Saturday. A traffic police spokeswoman could not say anything about the number of victims, but an eyewitness told the Nigerian press agency NAN that the only survivor was a baby wrecked by one of the vans.

Hopefully, the Nigerian boy who was abandoned by his family because he was bewitched, is with help from the Danish activist who came on top found him emaciated along the road.

Nigeria and prepare a number of other West African countries as President Yahya Jammeh does not transfer power to a military intervention in The Gambia.

The death toll from the collapsed church in the Nigerian city of Uyo has risen to 160. Dozens of people are still seriously injured in hospital. The building had gathered a lot of people according to Nigerian media as a spiritual bishop was consecrated.

An unknown number of people were killed when a church collapsed in the Nigerian city of Uyo (Akwa Ibom State). The building had gathered a lot of people according to Nigerian media as a spiritual bishop was consecrated.

Amnesty International says security forces of Nigeria are responsible for the deaths of at least 150 protesters in the Biafra region. The army would have shot almost without warning sharply, to disperse demonstrators from the separatist action group Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). This would have happened between August 2015 and August 2016.

One of more than two hundred schoolgirls were abducted by terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 in northeastern Nigeria, Saturday found by soldiers.

Nigerian women and girls are raped fleeing terror group Boko Haram and exploited by, among other soldiers and officers. With that accusation comes Human Rights Watch (HRW), which refers to 43 cases of sexual exploitation.

Facebook launches this week a satellite to improve Internet access in rural areas of Africa south of the Sahara. That Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday in the Nigerian capital Lagos said. According to the Facebook boss will Satellite '' connectivity beam down '.

The Greek parliament has lifted the immunity of two MPs from the far-right party Golden Dawn Wednesday. The pair can therefore be prosecuted for the launching of an attack on a community center in Ilioupoli, a suburb of Athens, the Greek newspaper Kathimerini writes.

A dog owner in Nigeria threatens to turn into the cell because his pet has given the name of the president. The man painted the name of President Muhammadu Buhari on two sides by his dog. Nigerian authorities see it as an insult.

Australia, Austria and Canada have the most livable cities in the world. The Australian city of Melbourne has the best performance in terms of stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure. The Austrian capital Vienna is right behind there, like the Canadian cities of Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary.

The Nigerian military has been guilty of excessive force against Shiite Muslims, with 348 deaths.

The Chilean politician Isabel Allende, a distant relative of the writer of the same name, will follow in the footsteps of her father Salvador.

The army of Nigeria at the weekend along with local militias over 5,000 people released that were held hostage by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. During the raids in fifteen villages six terrorists were slain in the northeast of the country, the military said Sunday.

Amnesty International has accused the Nigerian military of shooting dead at least seventeen members of a separatist action group in the Biafra region. The organization speaks of 'excessive and unnecessary use of force' and calls for research on the government of the African country.

Members of the Nigerian trade union NLC have halted Wednesday in protest against planned increases in fuel prices. The judge had actually banned the strike.

The Nigerian army has arrested Khalid al-Barnawi, the leader of the militant Islamic organization Ansaru. That is a splinter group of Boko Haram, which has been accused of abduct and kill Westerners. The US State Department said al-Barnawi in 2012, one of the three Nigerian leaders on the black list with links to Boko Haram and the African branch of al Qaeda.

The Nigerian military has freed this week, more than eight hundred hostages from Boko Haram.

With the collapse of a five-storey building in Nigeria's business metropolis Lagos are at least 35 people died. Still under construction building collapsed Tuesday, but Thursday was still searching for further victims among the rubble, said a spokesman for the local crisis management team.

The Belgian public prosecutor to prosecute an experienced diplomat. Oswald G. (60), according to The News on suspected for years hand-span services rendered to secret agents of Russia.

Nigeria 's army has freed 338 prisoners of the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram. Among the freed men were 138 women and 192 children who were imprisoned in a camp in the northwest of the country.