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Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil exporter, but imported fuel for cars has been scarce across the country for weeks. Drivers are frustrated at having to wait in long lines at gas stations to pay skyrocketing prices, while the government blames shady fuel…

Gunmen on motorbikes in northwest Nigeria’s Katsina state killed at least 69 people and torched several homes in attacks on four villages, a local lawmaker told AFP Thursday, amid rising communal tension in the region. The state’s police chief, Hurdi…

Gunmen in northwest Nigeria’s Katsina state killed 69 people in attacks on four villages, a local lawmaker told AFP Thursday, amid rising communal tension in the region. “So far, 69 bodies have been recovered from the attacks carried out by a large…