Nigeria has declared eight foreign hostages attempted to save

Abuja (Reuters)-the federal Government of Nigeria has declared he was doing whatever he could to ensure the eight foreigners taken hostage by guerrilla groups in the northern part of the country was freed without injury.

Minister of Foreign Affairs reveals that on Olugbenga Ashiru Saturday (4/3), when he met with the Abkhaz from France Laurent Fabius at the Nnamdi Azikiwe international airport, Abuja.

The Nigerian Minister said that effort will include the payment of a ransom because that is left-back with government policy.

Ashiru told his guest of Nigeria will be the main target of regional terror suspects if there is no intervention of France and ECOWAS troops in crisis in Mali, according to the Xinhua report--monitored Between in Jakarta, on Sunday night.

"We will do whatever possible to ensure we are able to liberate the hostages as part of our own policy, we will not pay ransom to the perpetrators of terror but we will do whatever possible to ensure that terror suspects freed their hostages without doing actions that harm them," she added.

Ashiru told reporters his meeting with Minister of France who was visiting that aims to examine the relationship between them.

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Tiga dokter China dibunuh di Nigeria

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Kano, Nigeria (ANTARA News) - Kelompok bersenjata membunuh tiga dokter China dalam serangan sebelum subuh, Minggu, di kota Potiskum, Nigeria timur laut.

"Penyerang itu naik pagar rumah susun di Potiskum, tempat tinggal tiga dokter China tersebut, sekitar pukul 01.00 waktu setempat dan memotong leher mereka. Belum ada penahanan terhadap tersangka," kata kepala kepolisian negara bagian Yobe, Komisaris Sanusi Rufa`i, kepada AFP.

Penduduk mengatakan para dokter China itu bertugas di Kementerian Kesehatan dan telah tinggal di kota itu selama satu tahun.

Rufa`i tidak mengatakan apakah kelompok garis keras Boko Haram yang aktif di Potiskum, sekitar 100km dari ibu kota negara bagian itu Damaturu, bertanggung jawab atas serangan itu.

"Masih terlalu dini untuk menuduh tetapi kami harus melakukan penyelidikan untuk mengungkapkan pembunuhan-pembunuhan itu," katanya.

Seorang penduduk lokal mengatakan mayat-mayat dari tiga dokter China itu ditemukan di kamar mereka Minggu pagi oleh para tetangga yang secara paksa membuka pintu tempat mereka tinggal.

"Pagi ini, ditemukan tiga dokter China dibunuh. Orang menjadi curiga ketika para dokter tidak membuka pintu kamar mereka pada pagi itu," kata seorang penduduk yang tidak bersedia disebutkan namanya, kepada AFP.

Ini adalah peristiwa pembunuhan terbaru terhadap warga China dalam beberapa bulan terakhir di daerah utaraPembunuhan tersebut adalah

Pembunuhan itu adalah kasus terbaru terhadap para warga China dalam bulan-bulan belakangan ini di bagian timur laut negara tersebut.

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Three doctor who was murdered in Nigeria citizens of North Korea

Kano, Nigeria (ANTARANews)-the three doctors who were killed in the attack with a knife in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday is a citizen of North Korea, said the police and local governments, having previously occurred regarding the nationality of the victim kesimpangsiuran.

"The three people it came from North Korea, rather than from South Korea," said the head of the regional police, Rufa'i, Yobe State Sanusi told AFP about the attack, which took place in the restive area of Potiskum.

"They are the doctors who work in Potiskum to State Governments," he added.

Abdullahi, spokesman for the Governor of the Dingle area of Yobe State, also identifies the sacrifices as citizens of North Korea and say, they were in Nigeria as part of an agreement of cooperation was signed about five years ago.

According to police, people armed with knives slit the third doctor was in a offensive towards dawn, the last such killings in the past few months.

Police had earlier identified the victim as Chinese, then South Korea, before finally saying that they came from North Korea.

The North Korea Embassy officials could not be reached for comment about the attacks they requested it.

In November, gunmen shot dead two Chinese building workers in the State of Borno, the adjacent headquarters of the hard-line group Boko Haram.

Three others also killed Chinese in separate attacks in the area.

Some Nigerians also became a victim of gorok the neck in that area in the past few months.

Although there has been no parties who claim to be responsible, the attacks were similar to those performed by the Boko Haram before against foreigners.

Violence escalates in Nigeria since the attacks killed dozens of people during Christmas celebrations 2011 which was claimed by hardline muslim group Boko Haram.

Kano, the city has a population of about 10 million people in Northern Nigeria, a region which was hit hardest in the violence.

A series of bombings and shootings swept Kano after Friday prayers on January 20, 2012, killing 185 people, in attacks claimed by Boko Haram which aimed at the police headquarters and the offices of other policemen, a police building and immigration offices.

The attacks were the most deadly operations by the Group and is aimed primarily at the police station.

Boko Haram claimed dozens of attacks in Nigeria, including suicide bombings in August at UN headquarters in Abuja that killed at least 24 people.

A series of bomb attacks in the city of Jos, central Nigeria, on Christmas Eve 2010 also claimed by Boko Haram.

Boko Haram launched a violent action in 2009 that the uprising was crushed brutally by the military which killed about 800 people and destroying mosques and their headquarters in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, Nigeria.

The Group was inactive for about a year and then appeared again in 2010 with a series of murders.

Nigeria's population of over 160 million people split in the northern region, which is mostly Muslim and the South largely Christian. (M014)

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Kano prayers over Nigeria attacks

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23 January 2012 Last updated at 11:28 GMT President Jonathan (l) met the Emir of Kano (r) on Sunday Both Muslim and Christian residents of Kano, the northern Nigerian city where at least 160 people were killed in a series of attacks on Friday, have been urged to heed a day of prayer.

A special prayer session has been held near the palace of the Emir of Kano, asking Allah to help end the violence.

Islamist militant group Boko Haram says it carried out the attacks.

At least 12 locally made explosive devices have been found in abandoned vehicles in the city, police say.

Doctors say that more bodies are arriving in the morgues and so the number of people killed in the series of bombings and shoot-outs is expected to rise.

The BBC's Abdullahi Kaura Abubaker in the city says that some people are starting to resume normal activities in the city but that a heavy security presence remains. An overnight curfew is also in place.

'End the violence'

The call for prayers was issued by both the Kano state government and the Emirate council on local radio stations.

Both Muslims and non-Muslims were urged to gather at their respective places of worship.

Our reporter says about 200 people attended Kano's central mosque, while local mosques around the city also held prayers.

Continue reading the main story 2002: Founded2009: Hundreds killed when Maiduguri police stations stormed; leader Mohammed Yusuf captured and killedDec 2010: Bombed Jos, killing 80 people; blamed for New Year's Eve attack on Abuja barracksJun-Aug 2011: Bomb attacks on Abuja police HQ and UN buildingDec 2011: Multiple bomb attacks on Christmas Day kill dozens Jan 2012: Wave of violence across north-east NigeriaKano is the largest city in the mainly Muslim north but it has a sizeable Christian community.

Boko Haram targeted worshippers at several churches on Christmas Day and one faction has urged southerners, who are mostly Christian or follow traditional beliefs, to leave the north.

Hundreds of people have fled their homes but there have also been cases of members of the two communities supporting each other.

President Goodluck Jonathan visited Kano on Sunday to offer his condolences and vowed to defeat the "terrorists".

However, our reporter says many people are sceptical, having heard similar promises in the past.

The militants attacked several police stations and managed to free some suspected members of their group who had been detained.

Boko Haram, which wants an Islamic state, said it launched the attacks because the authorities refused to free some of its members from jail.

This is the deadliest attack the group has launched, although it has killed hundreds of people in recent years.

Its members have bombed churches, government buildings and police stations - mostly in predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria.

One doctor told AFP news agency that the final toll from Friday's attacks was likely to be about 250.

"Although the bulk of the bodies were brought here [the main hospital], others were deposited at three other hospitals," the doctor said.

Boko Haram, which loosely translates from the local Hausa language as "Western education is forbidden", says it wants to overthrow the national government and impose Islamic law.

It first hit the headlines in 2009 when a series of attacks by its followers on police and government buildings in the city of Maiduguri led to a crackdown in which hundreds died.

Since then, a wave of bombings and shootings have killed police officers, government officials and both Muslim and Christian civilians.

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