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January 13, 2012

"There are young people and old people. People parking their Mercedes-Benzes and Land Rovers. People walking barefoot."

- OLUMIDE ADELEYEa Lagos entrepreneur, on the protests as negotiations between labor unions and the Nigerian government ended late Thursday without an agreement to restore fuel subsidies
December 26, 2011

"This is a sign that they've decided to try to ignite the Muslim-Christian fault line."

- DARREN KEWa Nigeria expert at the University of Massachusetts Boston, on a series of Christmas Day church bombings in Africa's most populous country.
August 26, 2011

"This is not an attack on Nigeria but on the global community, an attack on the world."

- VIOLA ONWULIRINigeria's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, after at least 16 people were killed in an apparent suicide car bombing at the U.N. headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja

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