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One blast hit the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, and another struck the eastern neighbourhood of Kaleri, all in the early evening of Monday. | World News

MAIDUGURI: Multiple explosions staged by suspected suicide bombers rocked the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 23 people and wounding m

The blasts were reported at the entrance of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital and two local markets, known as Post Office and the Monday Market, according to Sirajo Abdullahi, head of operations at Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency, or NEMA, in Maiduguri.

Some of those key to boosting agricultural output in Africa's most-populous nation have given up.

Ruling party candidate promises hope, opposition pledges change as Thursday's deadline to end campaigns approaches.

A Nigerian street trader, who accuses the country's former deputy senate president of trying to harvest his kidney in the UK, told a British court on Tuesday that he begged police officers to "save my life".

It's four days before the most anticipated general election in Africa, in which Nigeria will choose a president for the sixth time since returning to democracy in 1999.

There are 93.4 million eligible voters for February 25 polls, the sixth since Nigeria's return to democracy in 1999.