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Nigeria receives virus test kits from billionaire Jack Ma
The equipment will be distributed to frontline health workers and hospital laboratories.
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Boko Haram militants kill 92 Chadian soldiers - president
Footage on state TV showed Deby, who has ruled Chad since 1990 and survived several rebellions and coup attempts, walking among the charred remains of burned-out vehicles.
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Nigeria reports chloroquine poisonings after Trump comments
Health officials in Lagos said there had already been claims online pushing chloroquine as a treatment and that Trump's message had seen interest surge.
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Nigeria, South Africa step up fight against virus in Africa
Lagos state government said schools in the city of some 20 million would be shut from Monday. It said there was now 'local transmission' of the virus in the city.
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Lagos closes schools as virus shadow lengthens over Africa
The curbs by Nigeria's sprawling economic hub came a day after Burkina Faso announced the first virus fatality south of the Sahara.
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Nigeria issues travel ban on 13 countries over coronavirus
The announcement came as the authorities confirmed five new virus cases, bringing to eight the number so far tested positive in Africa's most populous nation of 200 million people.
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Nigeria gas explosion kills at least 15: emergency services
The blast happened at around 8:00 am (0700 GMT) destroyed around 50 buildings in the residential district of Abule Ado.
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Influential Nigerian traditional ruler dethroned
Lamido Sanusi, who ascended the throne in 2014, was accused of 'disrespect to lawful instructions', the state government said in a statement.
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Nigeria police free 13 from 'baby factory'
The women, aged between 20 and 25, told police the owner hired men to impregnate them and then sell the newborns for profit in what has been dubbed a 'baby factory'.
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Gunmen kill at least 50 in northern Nigeria state of Kaduna
Houses and vehicles were set ablaze by the gunmen in the Kaduna state attack.
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Nigeria's Buhari urges citizens not to worry about confirmed coronavirus cases
He was speaking after announcements further infections in Algeria and Egypt to brought to six the number of confirmed cases on the African continent.
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Nigeria identifies 100 who may have been exposed to coronavirus patient
The man arrived in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, on 24 February from Milan on a Turkish Airlines flight that had a connection in Istanbul.
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Nigeria confirms coronavirus case, first in sub-Saharan Africa: minister
Prior to the case in Nigeria, just two cases had surfaced across all of Africa - in Egypt and in Algeria - a tally that had puzzled health specialists, given the continent's close economic ties with China.
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Jihadists kill, abduct dozens in northeast Nigeria
The attack Sunday evening targeted the village of Auno on a key highway linking to regional capital Maiduguri.
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Nigeria working to have US travel ban lifted - foreign minister
Speaking at a joint news conference in Washington with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Onyeama said Nigeria was ‘blindsided’ by the US decision on Friday to add it and five other nations to an expanded version of the US visa ban.
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Nigeria court orders halt to Lagos waterfront evictions
Navy personnel last week shot in the air and bulldozed houses as they cleared a community of some 10,000 people living on an island in the bustling megacity.
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MTN to invest $1.6 billion in Nigeria - statement
The company said it planned a capital investment program of $1.6 billion, or roughly 580 billion naira over three years in its network and operations in Nigeria.
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Nigeria and the Oxford English Dictionary 'rub minds'
Hailing from the streets of Nigeria, “to chop” - meaning to illicitly make money, and “rub minds” - a synonym for “confer”, are among 29 distinctive aspects of Nigerian English to obtain pride of place in the august dictionary.
