Nigeria union leader goes missing
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There is no news of Adams Oshiomhole, the head of Nigeria's main union body, after his arrest on Saturday.
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Troops launched a search-and-rescue mission Thursday for Nigerian soldiers missing after militants ambushed a military-escorted supply convoy in the oil-rich south, and the president called an emergency meeting with security chiefs.
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ABUJA : Nigerian secret police detained the country&#39;s top trade union leader, dramatically raising tensions two days ahead of a threatened nationwide general strike against rising fuel prices.
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Nigeria's ruling party suspends Vice-President Atiku Abubakar for three months over corruption allegations.
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Nigeria convened an African summit on Ivory Coast's crisis Sunday without the leader of the embattled nation, who remained holed up in his mansion, increasingly surrounded by hard-liners in his confrontation ...
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LAGOS, Nigeria: A union leader who called a nationwide strike to protest rising fuel prices in Nigeria warned that the strike could be extended if serious violence breaks out or the government refuses to consider its demands.
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A top Niger Delta militant leader, Henry Okah, has been extradited from Angola to Nigeria, say officials.
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The head of a separatist movement in Nigeria&#39;s southern oil-rich Niger Delta has announced that he intends to meet President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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NIGERIA LAGOS -- The Nigerian government yesterday disclosed a foiled coup plot, charging four military officers and a civilian with conspiring to topple the government by shooting down a helicopter carrying President Olusegun Obasanjo. Major Hamza al-Mustapha, former chief of personal security to the late military dictator General Sani Abacha, and four others, were each charged with two counts of ...
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The factional leader in a powerful  Nigerian rebel group in the oil-producing Niger Delta is being  detained in Angola on arms trafficking charges, his wife told  Reuters on Saturday.
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Nigeria's military discovers an arms cache belonging to a wanted militant leader in oil-rich Port Harcourt.
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ABUJA, Nigeria - Security forces released the head of Nigeria&#39;s main labor organization on Sunday after a brief detention, but a nationwide strike will go ahead as planned, a spokesman for the labor group said.
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The Nigerian military has stormed a hideout and freed one of two Chinese workers abducted by unknown gunmen more than two months ago in the country&#39;s southeast, the police said Monday.
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Outgoing Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was set Tuesday to hand over power to the man he handpicked to succeed him, Umaru Yar&#39;Adua, who was a little-known governor of an obscure northern state.
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Nigerian security forces arrested the country&#39;s top union official at gunpoint on Saturday, his union said, ahead of a general strike called for Monday which the government has declared illegal.
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Adams Oshiomhole, the head of Nigeria's main union body, is said to have been freed after his arrest on Saturday.
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One of two oil tankers that went missing laden with crude oil has been found, says the Nigerian navy.