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  • 26
    Dec
    2012
    9:30am, EST

    Blaze consumes Nigerian warehouse, nearby homes

    Jon Gambrell / AP

    A fire truck passes a warehouse on fire on Lagos Island in Lagos, Nigeria, on Dec. 26.

    An explosion ripped through a warehouse Wednesday where witnesses say fireworks were stored in Nigeria's largest city, sparking a fire. It wasn't immediately clear if anyone was injured in the blast that firefighters and locals struggled to contain.

    -- The Associated Press

    Sunday Alamba / AP

    People try to contain a fire at residential homes and a warehouse on Lagos Island in Lagos, Nigeria, on Dec. 26.

    Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP - Getty Images

    Policemen collect debris for examination at the scene of an explosion in a building in Lagos on Dec. 26.

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    An explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Nigeria killed a young boy and injured several others. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

    Previously on PhotoBlog:

    • Smoldering scene in Lagos, Nigeria after plane crash
    • 153 people feared dead in Nigerian plane crash
    • Secret prison in the jungle on Nigerian island
    • Abandoned ships litter Nigeria coastline
    • At least four killed as two bombs hit Nigeria newspaper offices

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  • 4
    Jun
    2012
    12:58pm, EDT

    Smoldering scene in Lagos, Nigeria after plane crash

    Arewa Emmanuel / AFP - Getty Images

    Rescue workers and firefighters work to contain a fire while they continue to look for survivors at the scene of the crashed Dana Airline plane in the densely populated Toyin Area of Iju Ishaga in Lagos, on June 4. The flight that crashed in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos, reported both of its engines failed before it went down.

    Sunday Alamba / AP

    Rescue workers carry bodies at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, June 4. Firefighters pulled at least one body from a building that was damaged by the crash as several charred corpses could be seen in the rubble.

    Akintunde Akinleye / Reuters

    People watch as a crane lifts the remnants of the tail of the plane at Iju-Ishaga neighborhood in Lagos June 4. Nigerian emergency services pulled more bodies out of the still-smouldering, ash-covered wreckage of a plane that crashed killing all 153 people on board.

    Sunday Alamba / AP

    A rescue worker search through the debris at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, June 4. A passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, government officials said. Firefighters pulled at least one body from a building that was damaged by the crash and searched for survivors.

    AP reports:  LAGOS, Nigeria — Police dogs sniffed for dead bodies Monday in the rubble of buildings destroyed when an airliner crashed into them, killing all 153 aboard, as cranes lifted away heavy pieces of debris in the grisly aftermath of Nigeria's worst air disaster in nearly two decades.

    Rescue officials said they fear many more people may have perished on the ground. Continue reading...

    Story: Engine problems eyed after passenger jet crashes in Nigeria suburb

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    I cannot believe these thing are happening. Syria, Baghdad, India train and now this airplane. Not for lack of it, but can someone call WHO, and the medics? They care and should be on the scene, pending the necessity of care for the injured.

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  • 3
    Jun
    2012
    1:59pm, EDT

    153 people feared dead in Nigerian plane crash

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    Residents of the Iju district of Lagos, Nigeria, gather at the site where a Dana company aircraft crashed into a two-story building on June 3.

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    Residents of the Iju district of Lagos are seen a few moments after the crash.

    Nigerian authorities said Sunday that as many as 153 people were aboard a Dana Airlines passenger jet that crashed into a two-story building in Lagos, the country's largest city. "I don't believe there are any survivors," said Harold Denuren, Nigeria's director of aviation

    Authorities said that in addition to the passengers and crew aboard the plane, an unknown number of people may also have been killed or hurt on the ground. President Goodluck Jonathan canceled all appointments for Monday and declared three days of official mourning for the victims.

    -- Reported by M. Alex Johnson of msnbc.com

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    I hope all the people survived. What a tragedy!

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  • 9
    Apr
    2012
    5:00pm, EDT

    Annual carnival marks the end of Easter celebrations in Lagos

    Akintunde Akinleye / Reuters

    Participants attend a street carnival at Tafawa Balewa Square in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos. The annual carnival marks the end of Easter celebrations in this African country.

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  • 10
    Jan
    2012
    6:50pm, EST

    Nigerian fuel protests grow, 13 killed in attacks

    Afolabi Sotunde / Reuters

    Muslims pray while Christians form a protective human chain around them during a protest against the elimination of a popular fuel subsidy that has doubled the price of petrol in Nigeria's captial Abuja, Jan. 10, 2012. Nigerians took to the streets on Tuesday in growing numbers on the second day of protests against a sharp increase in petrol prices, piling pressure on President Goodluck Jonathan to reverse his removal of fuel subsidies.

    By Rich Shulman

    How often do you see Christians protecting Muslims in Africa?

    AP reports: Religiously motivated attacks killed 13 people in Nigeria on Tuesday, as tens of thousands took to the streets in a second day of nationwide protests against the scrapping of a fuel subsidy that has nearly doubled petrol prices.

    A mob killed five people in a mosque in Benin City in the south while in the north, Islamist militants shot dead eight people in a bar.

    The assault was most likely a reprisal against northern Muslims for attacks by the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram on Christians of southern origin in the north, including a spate of deadly raids on churches which have killed dozens.

    Afolabi Sotunde / Reuters

    A woman prays during a protest against the elimination of a popular fuel subsidy that has doubled the price of petrol in Nigeria's capital Abuja, Jan. 10, 2012.

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    Nigerians take protest over fuel prices to gates of the 1%

    Nigerian protest over fuel prices turns violent

     

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    Who cares about nigeria? Do they have anything we need? Don't think so. Next problem please.

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  • 10
    Jan
    2012
    7:15am, EST

    Sunday Alamba / AP

    An angry youth protests in front of a burning barrier following the removal of a fuel subsidy by the government in Lagos, Nigeria, on Jan. 10, 201.

    Nigerians take protest over fuel prices to gates of the 1%

    "One day the poor will have nothing to eat but the rich" read a sign held by one young man in Abuja on Monday.

    The Associated Press reports from LAGOS, Nigeria:

    Angry youths erected a burning roadblock outside luxury enclaves in Nigeria's commercial capital Tuesday as a paralyzing national strike over fuel prices and government corruption entered its second day.

    The flaming tires and debris sent thick, dark smoke over part of Ikoyi Island, home to diplomats and many of the oil-rich nation's wealthy elite. It also signaled the danger of spiraling violence as protests continue in the country of more than 160 million people. Police shot at least three protesters to death on Monday. Read the full story.

    Previously on PhotoBlog: Extremes of wealth and poverty revealed in photographs of Nigerian oil industry

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    "One day the poor will have nothing to eat but the rich" You Are What You Eat , Makes Sense To Me.

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  • 11
    May
    2011
    7:37am, EDT

    Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP - Getty Images

    Pedestrians run from the scene of a fire ravaging four fuel tankers on the Ibadan highway on May 11 in Lagos, Nigeria.

    Collision between fuel tankers leaves two dead

    Two people lost their lives following a collision between two tankers loaded with fuel that exploded, spreading the fire to two additional tankers driving along the Lagos-Ibadan highway, AFP reported.

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  • 5
    Sep
    2010
    8:00pm, EDT

    Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP - Getty Images

    Fire rages on three fuel tankers and eleven cars at Ibafo Town on the Lagos Ibadan highway on Sunday, Sept. 5. More than a dozen vehicles including two mini buses burned as three tankers loaded with fuel exploded following a collision with a car near Lagos. A body burned beyond recognition and an occupant of one of the vehicles that escaped from the fire was seen lying unconscious at the scene.

    Fire on the Lagos Ibadan highway

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