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Nigeria: Feared gang leader believed dead, again (AP)

August 25th, 2010

A scramble of power cables in Oshodi district of Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, in 2003. Electricity workers in Nigeria on Wednesday launched an indefinite strike over wages, a day ahead of a major speech by President Goodluck Jonathan on reforming the ailing power sector.(AFP/File/Pius Otomi Ekpei)AP - Police believe unknown gunmen killed a Nigerian gang leader accused of helping rig the 2007 election in the nation’s oil-rich and violence-wracked southern delta, authorities said Wednesday, though officers have yet to find his body.


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