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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan visits the site of the police headquarters bombed by a suicide bomber in Kano, Nigeria, on Sunday. (Associated Press)

Islamist sect kills 150 in series of attacks

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

A victim of Friday's bomb blast and gun attacks lies in Murtala Muhammad specialist hospital in Kano, Nigeria Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. Coordinated attacks claimed by a radical Islamist sect killed at least 120 people in north Nigeria's largest city, hospital records seen Saturday show, as gunfire still echoed around some areas of the sprawling city. (AP Photo/Salisu Rabiu)

Coordinated sect attack kills 143 in north Nigeria

By Ibrahim Garba and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

FILE - In a Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011 file photo, medical officials try to treat a victim of a bomb blast at a Catholic church near Nigeria's capital at Suleja General Hospital in Suleja, Nigeria. An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital Sunday, killing at least 25 people, officials said. A radical Muslim sect, Boko Haram, claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast. Boko Haram's insurgency started with robed men on motorcycles killing their enemies one at a time across Nigeria's remote and dusty northeast. Now the radical Muslim sect's attacks have morphed into a nationwide sectarian fight. (AP Photo/Dele Jones, File)

Nigeria sect kills 15; Christians vow defense

By Jon Grambrell and Njadvara Musa - Associated Press

Illustration by John Camejo for The Washington Times

AZAZI: Combating a common terrorist threat

By Owoye Andrew Azazi - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Nigerian soldiers and police stand guard outside U.N. headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria on Aug. 27, 2011, a day after a suicide bomber crashed through an exit gate and detonated a car full of explosives in the reception area. The country's president has vowed his government will bring terrorism "under control. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Officials: 67 dead in northeast Nigeria attacks

By Jon Gambrell and Njadvara Musa - Associated Press

Briefly: Africa

By wire dispatches and staff reports

Nigeria: 2 suspects arrested before U.N. HQ bombing

By Bashir Adigun and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Nigeria mum about arrests before car bombing of U.N.

By Bashir Adigun and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Car bomb strikes U.N. building in Nigeria; 16 killed

By Bashir Adigun and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Briefly: Africa

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Nigeria: 800 inmates escape during prison attack

By Shehu Saulawa - Associated Press