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Nigeria: U.S. Removes Country From Terror List
Independent (Lagos), 21 April 2010
The United States government has removed Nigeria from the list of terrorist nations.The minister for foreign affairs Odein Ajumogobia made this known to newsmen after this… Read more »
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Africa: U.S. Imposes Tighter Airline Screening for Many Africans
allAfrica, 4 January 2010
Airline passengers who are citizens of, or fly through, five African nations will undergo more intensive security screening from today before being permitted to board flights to… Read more »
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Africa: Intelligence Not Fully Analyzed Before Airline Attack, Obama Says
America.gov, 5 January 2010
President Obama says a Nigerian man affiliated with al-Qaida in the Arabia Peninsula was able to board a U.S.-bound flight with explosives on December 25, 2009, because U.S.… 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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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: Country Should Not Be Stigmatized for Mustallab's Misconduct--Ndoma-Egba
Daily Champion, 4 January 2010
Deputy Senate President, Chief Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN) has stressed the need for the terrorist attack on the US Plane last week to be considered as an individual decision and not… Read more »
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Nigeria: Mutallab - FG to Use Body Scanners at Airports
Daily Champion, 31 December 2009
Federal government yesterday said it will equip its international airports with full-body scanners next year, following failed attempts by Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to… 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: How Safe Are Our Airports?
Independent (Lagos), 11 January 2010
The question how safe are Nigerian airports has been asked several times. Each time it is asked, the same slant of vituperations from official quarters will becloud the real issue.… Read more »
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Nigeria: Country Summons U.S. Envoy, Protests Terror List
Independent (Lagos), 5 January 2010
"We detect some double standards here. What Farouk (Abdulmutallab) attempted to do is not different from what the shoe bomber did in 2001 and yet his country was not put on the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Farouk - Protect Youths Against Extremists, Cleric Tasks FG
Vanguard, 8 January 2010
IN the wake of the failed attempt by a young Nigerian to blow up a Detroit-bound Delta Airlines' aircraft on 25 December 2009, the Federal Government has been called upon to keep a… Read more »