US joins hunt for Nigerian girls

Nigeria's former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar joins the opposition - the most high-profile in a wave of defections from the governing party.

Nigeria international defender William Troost-Ekong signs a three-year contract with Belgian champions Gent.

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Police head for Zanzibar to hunt for thugs who threw acid at Brit girls
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British police are to join the hunt for attackers who doused two teenage girls in acid while on a gap-year in Zanzibar. Best pals Kirstie Trup and Katie Gee , both 18, needed skin grafts after two men on a scooter threw battery acid at them last August.

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British police to hunt for men who threw acid over teen girls in Zanzibar
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British detectives have been allowed to join the hunt for two men who threw battery acid on teenagers Kirstie Trup and Katie Gee in Zanzibar last August. The acid was thrown on the British girls, both 18, from a motorbike on the island. Kirstie's father Marc, 51, ...
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Suspected Boko Haram militants have kidnapped eight girls in northern Nigeria, following last month's mass abduction, police say.

Five young girls were behind a series of deadly explosions in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Thursday evening, security sources say.

Some of the schoolgirls abducted by suspected militant Islamists in northern Nigeria are believed to have been taken to neighbouring states, a local leader tells the BBC.

Nigeria's teachers are holding a day of protests in support of more than 200 schoolgirls seized by Boko Haram militants last month.

The US reveals it is flying manned surveillance missions over Nigeria to try to find more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram.