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FILE- Police officers patrol during a protest by Nigeria Labour Congress on the street in Lagos, Nigeria, on July 26, 2022. Nigeria's police chief says hundreds of thousands of security forces are being deployed to ramp up safety in various troubled regions ahead of the country's Feb. 25 presidential election. More than 400,000 security personnel would be deployed for the vote in anticipation of challenges ranging from continued attacks by armed groups and suspected separatists targeting remote communities and the election commission's facilities to political thuggery and violent protests, Usman Baba, Nigeria's Inspector-General of Police, told reporters in the capital city of Abuja on Thursday. Feb. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

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Nigeria police deploy for security before presidential vote
By CHINEDU ASADU - Associated Press
Fri,02/17/23-9:37AM , 471 Reads
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria will deploy more than 400,000 security personnel ahead of the presidential election next week amid fears that Islamic extremists or secessionists could try to disrupt the vote.
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A money changer counts Nigerian naira currency at a bureau de change, in Lagos Nigeria, Oct. 20, 2015. Nigeria's push to replace the local currency notes with newly designed ones is creating an economic crisis, experts warned Monday, Jan. 30, 2023 with the limited cash in circulation hurting many people and businesses across the West African nation. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

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Nigeria sees cash shortage amid push for redesigned currency
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Tue,01/31/23-4:14AM , 1,259 Reads
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's push to replace its paper money with newly designed currency notes has created a shortage of cash, leaving people unable to buy what they need and forcing businesses to close across the West African nation, experts and business groups said.
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Sculptures created by French artist Prune Nourry, Inspired by ancient Nigerian Ife terracotta heads, titled "Statues Also Breathe," and representing the remaining 108 Chibok still in captivity are displayed in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram stormed the Government Girls Secondary School in the Chibok community in Borno state and forcefully took the girls as they prepared for science exams, sparking the #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign that involved celebrities worldwide including former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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‘I think of them’: Abducted Nigerian schoolgirls remembered
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Thu,12/29/22-3:55AM , 413 Reads
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Margret Yama’s phone screensaver is a picture of her cousin, Rifkatu Galang, who is still held by Boko Haram extremists nearly nine years after she and 275 other girls were seized from their school in northeastern Nigeria.
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Aisha Ali, 40, cries as she and her daughter Husseina, 9, wait in Tabawa, northeastern Nigeria, for four her or children to be prepared for burial Wednesday Oct. 26, 2022. When floodwaters reached her hut made of woven straw mats and raffia palms, she packed up what belongings she could and set off on foot with her eight youngest children. "While the flood was trying to destroy things, we were trying to save ourselves," she said.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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'God's plan': Family flees amid catastrophic Nigeria floods
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Thu,12/08/22-2:24AM , 798 Reads
TABAWA, Nigeria (AP) — When the floodwaters reached Aisha Ali’s hut made of woven straw mats and raffia palms, she packed up what belongings she could and set off on foot with her eight youngest children.
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