Court boosts Nigeria VP ambitions
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Legal moves against Vice-President Atiku Abubakar in Nigeria are quashed freeing him to run in polls next year.
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A Nigerian court on Monday adjourned for a week the treason trial of Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, who heads a separatist group seeking a larger share of the country's oil revenue, after his lawyer hinted at a way out.
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The court bolstered President Bush's prospects in the swing state, ruling that Ralph Nader could appear on the ballot.
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Three former Nigerian governors are charged in an Abuja court for alleged corruption and money laundering.
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Nigeria's top corruption investigator said Tuesday that up to six former governors will be charged by the end of the year, a sign the country's new leadership is making good on pledges to stamp out graft in one of the world's most corrupt nations.
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The vice-president goes to court to keep his list of visitors a secret
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Nigeria's anti-graft agency EFCC said that it was investigating allegations linking President Olusegun Obasanjo with some private businesses in contravention of the constitution.
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Nigeria's court of appeal has ruled that President Olusegun Obasanjo had no legal power to sack of his deputy president for having joined an opposition party.
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Viewpoint: The Nigerian pastor chosen by Virginia's breakaway Episcopalians faces a tough choice
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A Nigerian court Friday granted the jailed Biafran separatist leader, Ralph Uwazuruike, three months bail to enable him attend his mother's funeral, court officials said.
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Umaru Yar&#39;Adua was sworn in Tuesday as president of oil-rich Nigeria, Africa&#39;s most populous country, succeeding Olusegun Obasanjo who stepped down after eight years in office.
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Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar, indicted on graft charges, hit back at President Olusegun Obasanjo with detailed counter-allegations of corruption.
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Nigeria's ruling party on Sunday chose a  reclusive Muslim state governor, Umaru Yar'Adua, to be its  candidate to succeed Olusegun Obasanjo as president of Africa's  most populous nation in elections next year.
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Nigeria's Supreme Court on Thursday voided the election of Governor Celestine Omehia of oil-rich Rivers State and ordered that his main challenger in the ruling party be sworn in immediately.
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Zimbabwe&#39;s opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, surged back as a political force yesterday after a court acquitted him of plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe, ending a two-and-a-half year case that could have seen him executed.
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DASS, Nigeria  - An Islamic court in northern Nigeria heard the appeal of a woman challenging a death by stoning sentence for allegedly committing adultery, and the judge said he would issue a verdict in two weeks.
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The former director of the Iraqi war crimes tribunal said that interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has taken over the court and could rush forward with "show trials" of Saddam Hussein and other former Iraqi leaders to boost his popularity before presidential elections scheduled for January.