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Nigeria health official display a leaflet explaining Ebola Virus Disease at the arrival hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)


Ebola death toll reaches 932; 1,700 cases: WHO

Ebola death toll reaches 932; 1,700 cases: WHO

Abuja, AP—A Nigerian nurse who treated a man with Ebola is now dead and five others are sick with one of the world’s most virulent diseases, authorities said on Wednesday, as the death toll rose to at least 932 people in four West African countries. The growing...
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Nigerian emergency officials work on the scene of a bomb blast in the Wusa district in Abuja, Nigeria, on June 25, 2014. (EPA/STR)


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A woman takes part in a protest for the release of the abducted secondary school girls in the remote village of Chibok, during a sit-in protest at the Unity fountain in Abuja, on May 12, 2014. (Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde)


US flying aircraft over Nigeria in hunt for girls

US flying aircraft over Nigeria in hunt for girls

Abuja, AP—A Nigerian government official said “all options are open” in the search for missing schoolgirls that’s now being actively supported by US surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft. Boko Haram, the militant group that is holding some 276...
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Protesters take part in a “million-woman march” in the Nigerian capital Abuja over the government’s failure to rescue scores of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists, in Abuja, Nigeria, on April 30, 2014. (EPA/Deji Yake)


Nigerian leader: New order to free abducted girls

Nigerian leader: New order to free abducted girls

Abuja, AP—Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan met through the night with security, school and state officials and issued a new directive that “everything must be done” to free the 276 girls kidnapped by Islamic extremists, one of his advisers said...
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Crowd gather at the scene of a bomb blast at a bus terminal in Nyayan, Abuja April 14, 2014. (Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde)