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Nigeria: The Abdulmutallab Effect
This Day, 9 January 2010
The attempt to blow up an American airline by Nigerian-terror suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Christmas day has not only caused considerable embarrassment to the country, it… Read more »
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Nigeria: Terror Attack - Do Nigerians Deserve to Be Demonised?
Independent (Lagos), 9 January 2010
The Christmas botched terror attack attempted by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, is not only a condemnable act but one that requires the maximum punishment that… Read more »
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Nigeria: Veep - Terrorism Alien to Our Culture
Independent (Lagos), 7 January 2010
Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday insisted that the terrorist act attempt by 23-year-old Farouk Abdumutallab was completely alien to Nigerian culture, and that such will… Read more »
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Nigeria: Inclusion of Nigeria on U.S. Watch List a Blessing - Sultan Dasuki
Daily Trust, 8 January 2010
Former Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki yesterday said the inclusion of Nigeria among 14 countries on the United States watch list of terrorism is a blessing in disguise. Read more »
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Nigeria: How Yemen Frustrated Mutallab's Attempt to Find Son
This Day, 3 January 2010
Fresh facts emerging on the alleged attempt by 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up a passenger plane in the United States on Christmas day showed that the attempt… Read more »
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Nigeria: Bomb Suspect May Not Have Begun Trip in Ghana
Vanguard, 2 January 2010
A Nigerian charged with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on Christmas day may not have begun his journey in Ghana, a Ghanaian airport official said yesterday. Read more »
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Nigeria: Agencies Play Blame Game Over Accused Bomber
This Day, 2 January 2010
The State Security Service has blamed the Nigerian Intellingence Agency for failing to share key information two months ago about Umar Abdulfarouk Abdulmutallab, the young man who… Read more »
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Nigeria: Abdulmutallab - More Trouble for Nigerians
Independent (Lagos), 30 December 2009
As Vice President Goodluck Jonathan predicted on Sunday, travelling Nigerians have come up against restrictions in Europe and the United States, sequel to the attempted downing of… Read more »
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Nigeria: My Heart Goes Out to Farouk
This Day, 3 January 2010
Let's briefly discuss the story of a young, independent boy with religious zeal and a fertile mind, delicately torn between the two worlds of extremism and liberalism. No, I'm not… Read more »
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Nigeria: Terror Attack - Mutallab Spent Only 27 Mins in Country, Says Govt
Vanguard, 31 December 2009
Fresh facts emerged yesterday on the circumstances in which Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian suspected in the attempted attack on a U.S. airliner came into Nigeria before… Read more »
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Nigeria: SSS Combs Mutallab's Funtua Home
This Day, 28 December 2009
In a bid to get to the bottom of the matter, security operatives have combed the country home of Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, retired First Bank Chairman and father of suicide bomb… Read more »
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Africa: More Details Unfold About Suspected Saboteur
This Day, 28 December 2009
Abdulfarouk Umar Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian at the centre of a failed attempt to bomb an airliner, is just like the guy next door - a basketball player and a football fan. Read more »
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Nigeria: What Faruk Preached, by Kaduna Friends
Daily Trust, 28 December 2009
The alleged airplane bomber Malam Faruk Umaru Mutallab's short career as an Islamic preacher did not give any indication that he could carry out a violent act because he… Read more »
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Nigeria: Attack, a Major Challenge - Jonathan
Daily Trust, 27 December 2009
Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan said yesterday that the foiled terror attack on a U.S. plane by a Nigerian, Farouk Mutallab, had created another major challenge for the country. Read more »
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Nigeria: Federal Govt is Investigating the Matter - Akunyili
Daily Trust, 27 December 2009
Information and Communications Minister Professor Dora Akunyili yesterday said the Federal Government has commenced investigations into the December 25 attempted bombing of a US… Read more »
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Africa: Another Nigerian Arrested Aboard U.S. Plane
This Day, 28 December 2009
Another Nigerian was arrested yesterday and taken into custody aboard a jetliner in Detroit after spending an hour in the restroom and becoming verbally disruptive. Read more »
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Africa: Vice President Decries Attempted Aircraft Bombing
This Day, 28 December 2009
Vice President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan yesterday decried the alleged attempted bombing of an American aircraft by a Nigerian, regretting that the incident would lead to the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Bomb Plot Scare Puts Airports On Alert
Business Day, 28 December 2009
EXTRA security staff have been called in to SA's international airports to ensure stricter security measures do not delay flights, following an al-Qaeda-linked Nigerian student's… Read more »
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Africa: Suspected Nigerian Saboteur Family Issues Statement
This Day, 28 December 2009
Our family, like the rest of the world, were woken up in the early hours of Saturday, 26th December, 2009 to the news of an attempt to blow up a plane by a young Nigerian man, who… Read more »
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Nigeria: Terror Attack Another Citizen Arrested
Vanguard, 27 December 2009
ABUJA--BARELY 24 hours after a Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab was arrested for alleged plan to bomb an American aircraft, another Nigerian was yesterday arrested after he… Read more »
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Nigeria: Govt Beefs Up Security at Nation's Airports
This Day, 28 December 2009
Following the failed attempt of a Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to down a Northwest Airline flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan on Christmas Day, the Federal… Read more »
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Nigeria: Profile of the Father of Suspected Saboteur
This Day, 28 December 2009
Not many Nigerians would have summoned the courage to do what Alhaji Umaru Mutallab did by reporting the suspected terrorist tendencies of his son to the United States. Read more »
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Nigeria: Civil Aviation Agency Gives Details of Bombing Suspect
This Day, 27 December 2009
The Nigeria Civil Avia-tion Authority (NCAA) has confirmed that Abdulfarouk Umar Abdulmuttallab, the passenger who is a suspect in the attempt to bomb North-west-Delta Airlines… Read more »
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This Day, 26 December 2009
[NOTE: The plane from Amsterdam to Detroit was Northwest Airlines Flight 253, operated by Delta Airlines.] Read more »
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Nigeria: Bankers Son Charged With Attempted Aircraft Bombing in U.S.
This Day, 27 December 2009
Twenty-three year old Abdulfarouk Umar Abdulmutallab, son of former Chairman of First Bank Plc, Alhaji Umar Mutallab, was yesterday in Michigan, United States charged with trying… Read more »
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Nigeria: U.S. Officials Charge Mutallab, May Get 20 Years on Conviction
Vanguard, 27 December 2009
United States Federal Officials Have Charged the 23 year old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab , arrested over an attempted terror attack on a US airliner on Christmas Day. Read more »