Nigeria
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Atiku Abubakar: Nigeria’s next ‘emoji president’
Speed Read Opposition candidate forecast to win election to lead one of Africa’s biggest economies
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Nigerian police chief says gay people ‘should leave country’
Speed Read Chief Superintendent Dolapo Badmos posted Instagram message citing 2014 law banning homosexuality activity
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West African ‘single currency’ nears launch
Speed Read The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States has been planning a single currency since 2000
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Why Prince Charles has pulled out of final leg of Africa tour
Speed Read The Royal’s visit to Nigerian city of Jos has been scrapped amid security fears
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World Cup group D: Marcos Rojo volleys Argentina into the last-16
Speed Read Group D final standings and results
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Africa’s space race intensifies
Speed Read Moon landings ‘still a long way off’ but Nigeria and South Africa leading the way in space technology
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Dapchi kidnapping: Nigerian schoolgirls returned by Boko Haram
Speed Read More than 90 of the abducted girls released by militant group after negotiations with government
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UK to pay for new £700,000 prison wing in Nigeria
Speed Read Government pledges funding to enable transfer of prisoners from British jails
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Nigeria school kidnapping: more than 100 girls missing in Dapchi
Speed Read President apologises over mistaken claims of rescue following suspected Boko Haram attack
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Couple wed week after meeting on Facebook
In Depth Chidimma Amedu asked potential wives to ‘send in your applications’ - and she did
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Nigerian university calls in snake charmers after student death
Speed Read Economics student Zainab Umar died following reports of numerous reptiles on campus
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82 Chibok schoolgirls freed in exchange for five Boko Haram leaders
Speed Read Kidnapped girls released after 'lengthy negotiations' between Nigerian government and radical Islamist group
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Chibok schoolgirl kidnap: Three years on
In Depth After the clamour of #BringBackOurGirls, at least 195 young women are still held hostage by Boko Haram
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East Africa hunger crisis: Mo Farah backs UK charity appeal
In Depth Olympian tells Britons to 'act now' and help millions facing starvation
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