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 Nigeria, January 2002
Nigeria, February 2002
Nigeria, March 2002
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Northern Nigeria
Nigeria Delta
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| Jan.10 |
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100 dead in village violence
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| Jan.13 |
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Woman appeals death by stoning
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| Jan.16 |
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 General strike| The strike has paralysed most of the main cities and brought commercial life to a standstill. Offices have shut down | |
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| Jan.27 |
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Army dump blast rocks Lagos An accidental fire has caused dozens of huge explosions. Thousands fled their homes in panic
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| Jan.28 |
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Lagos blasts leave 500 dead| killed as a result of a series of huge explosions at an army munitions dump | |
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Anger over Lagos blasts The Nigerian president has demanded an explanation from the military. Many children and babies drowned
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| Jan.30 |
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1000 missing after Lagos blasts
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| Feb.2 |
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Ethnic clashes in Lagos
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| Mar.21 |
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Sharia punishments condemned
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| Mar.25 |
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Sharia court frees woman
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| May.4 |
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Aircraft with 75 people crashed  Map of Kano Nigeria| An aircraft has crashed into buildings in Kano in northern Nigeria, as it approached the airport | |
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Authorities investigating plane disaster
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| Jun.5 |
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Amnesty appeal over Nigeria mother
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| Jun.19 |
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Students feud kills 18 Attack done by students belonging to a secret society at a university in southeast Nigeria on a rival group
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| Jul.17 |
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Women prolong oil standoff Hundreds of unarmed women are continuing their siege of a ChevronTexaco oil terminal that trapped hundreds of workers
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| Jul.19 |
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Women oil protesters take hostages Unarmed women occupying 4 ChevronTexaco flowstations took 2 oil workers hostage in a bid to force negotiations
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| Jul.24 |
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Rival tribes jostle for oil jobs in Delta Competition over oil money fueled the ethnic violence that has shattered villages across southeast Niger Delta
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| Aug.6 |
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Body could be activist Saro-Wiwa Ken Saro-Wiwa campaigned against the military junta and its environmental policy and was executed in 1995
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| Aug.17 |
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Gunmen kill ruling official A senior official of President Obasanjo's ruling party Ahman Ahmed Pategi died when gunmen opened fire on his car
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| Aug.19 |
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Woman loses stoning death appeal An Islamic court has ruled that a young woman must face death by stoning for having a child outside marriage
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| Sep.9 |
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Students burn down university buildings University refused to re-enroll 11 students expelled for allegedly kidnapping the vice chancellor in 2000
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| Sep.18 |
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Factory fire kills 45 Plastics factory was gutted by a fire that trapped an entire night shift. The number of workers on duty is controversial
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| Oct.3 |
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Miss Denmark joins sharia boycott 23-year-old Majsa Juel protests against a death sentence imposed on a Nigerian woman for having sex outside marriage
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| Oct.11 |
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 Ruling on Nigeria-Cameroon row The World Court ruled in favor of Cameroon in a bitter dispute over an oil-rich peninsula in the Gulf of Guinea
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| Nov.9 |
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Nigeria to quash stoning sentence Nearly a dozen contestants have decided to stay away from the December 7 Miss World pageant in Abuja
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| Nov.10 |
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Nigeria to block stoning of women Nigeria will block Islamic courts from carrying out stonings of women sentenced to death for sex outside marriage
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| Nov.12 |
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Boycott fails to stop Miss World Beauty queens from around the world have arrived despite a mass boycott over the nation's Islamic stoning sentences
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| Nov.13 |
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Condemned woman speaks out 31-year-old Amina Lawal is calling on beauty pageant contestants to cancel a boycott organized on her behalf
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| Nov.22 |
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Miss World leaves Nigeria for London| Organizers of the pageant will move the pageant in the wake of violent pageant-related protests | |
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| Nov.26 |
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Miss World reporter faces fatwa| Nigerian state issued an Islamic fatwa that calls for the death of a journalist who wrote an article that sparked riots | |
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| Dec.6 |
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State stands firm on Sharia Map of Zamfara Nigeria 'Whoever insults any prophet, that person is to be executed,' said Zamfara state commissioner
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