Geography of Nigeria

Football: Nigeria game stopped after police shooting

Agence France-PresseApril 24, 2013 16:31

A high-profile Nigeria league match between champions Kano Pillars and Heartland was abandoned on Wednesday after police shot a fan at the Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano, northern Nigeria. "The match was called off after Heartland refused to continue the game after a fan was shot in the foot by police inside the stadium and the fans protested," Pillars media officer Idris Malikawa disclosed. "The fan was said to have done something illegal - he has been rushed to hospital." The match was goalless after half an hour before this incident.

Gunmen kill 11 in Nigeria village attack

AsianetApril 9, 2013 04:33

Police in Nigeria's Adamawa State on Saturday confirmed reports that a total of 11 people were killed when an uncertain number of gunmen invaded a village in the country's northeastern state State police spokesperson Mohammed Ibrahim disclosed this to Xinhua in Yola, the state capital, saying 11 people were so far confirmed killed by the police in the incident that took place in Midlu village in Madagali Local Government area. A local security source however said the attack took place in the early morning of Saturday around 2 a.m, local time.

Gunmen kill 11 in Nigeria village attack

AsianetApril 9, 2013 01:48

29 survivors so far in Nigeria boat sinking

Agence France-PresseMarch 21, 2013 12:02

Twenty-nine people, including two who survived by clinging to a cooking gas cylinder, have been rescued after a boat carrying an estimated 128 people capsized off Nigeria last week, an emergency official said Thursday. The boat set off on Friday from Nigeria's neighbour Benin, overloaded with passengers who had hoped to find work in Gabon, said the head of the Cross River State Emergency Management Agency, Vincent Aquah, citing survivor accounts.

At least nine dead in Nigeria shipwreck

Agence France-PresseMarch 19, 2013 18:30

At least nine people died when a boat capsized off the Nigerian coast, but two survivors were rescued, a spokesman for the national emergency service (NEMA) said Tuesday. The accident happened 40 nautical miles off the southeastern city of Calabar, said Yushau Shuaib. "Nigerian rescuers have recovered nine bodies" from the boat, he said. "Two survivors have been taken to... Calabar. Rescue continues." Joseph Morris, an official with the Cross River State Emergency Services, said the nine bodies had been taken to Calabar from the scene of the accident.

At least 45 dead as boat carrying 166 sinks off Nigeria

Thomson ReutersMarch 19, 2013 15:45

CALABAR, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 45 people died when a wooden boat carrying 166 people from south-eastern Nigeria capsized off the coast, a doctor said on Tuesday. The boat left on Friday from the remote town of Oron, in Cross Rivers state, and was heading across the Gulf of Guinea to Gabon, in central Africa, when it capsized 40 nautical miles offshore, emergency services and traders said. A doctor at a hospital in the coastal town of Calabar said they had received 45 bodies of passengers who had drowned.

Nigeria's new train offers a long, strange and welcomed trip

Agence France-PresseMarch 8, 2013 00:30

Before his 30-hour train journey to northern Nigeria began, David Adedamola had been excited to ride the just-revived service, but after half a day of creaking and rattling, he was craving a beer. In December, the colonial-era track between Lagos in the south, Nigeria's largest city, and Kano, the second city some 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) to the north, re-opened after having been defunct for decades.