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Nigerian officials inspect the remains of a car after a car bomb exploded in Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. Two car bombs blew up on Friday as Nigeria celebrated its 50th independence anniversary, killing a number of people in an unprecedented attack on the capital by suspected militants from the country's oil region. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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A Nigerian police officer walks past the burnt out shell of a car, after a car bomb exploded in Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, Oct 1, 2010. Two car bombs blew up on as Nigeria celebrated its 50th independence anniversary, killing at least seven people in an unprecedented attack on the capital by suspected militants from the country's oil region. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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In this Monday, Sept. 6, 2010 photo, a Nigerian woman holds her young daughter, who is suffering from cholera, at a village health clinic in Ganjuwa in Nigeria's northern Bauchi State. Health officials, some with surgical masks covering their faces, sprayed anti-bacterial solution on muddy paths in this village, and patients jammed into rudimentary clinics as the government struggled to contain a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 800 people in two months. The worst epidemic in Nigeria in 19 years is spreading to Cameroon, Chad and Niger, where it has killed hundreds more people. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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In this Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 photo, Ayo Bello displays a box of Coartem malaria medication, packaged for the commercial market, at a pharmacy in Lagos, Nigeria. Millions of free malaria drugs are sent to Africa every year by international donors. New research is now providing evidence for what health workers have long suspected: some of the donated medication, readily identifiable by its different packaging, is being stolen and resold on commercial markets. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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In this Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 photo, Johnnie Coleman, right, of MainOne Cable talks with a visitor at the cable landing station in Lagos, Nigeria. For a decade, West Africa's main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet. But this summer, a new $250-million MainOne cable snaked along the West African coastline ending at Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos. It has more than five times the capacity of the old one and is set to bring competition to a market where wholesale Internet access costs nearly 500 times as much as it does in the U.S. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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Johnnie Coleman, of MainOne Cable, walks past submarine-line terminating equipment at the cable-landing station in Lagos, Nigeria, on Aug. 5. This summer, a new $250 million MainOne cable snaked along the West African coastline, ending at Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital. (Associated Press)

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Muppets Kami (left) and Zobi are the two main characters in Nigeria's upcoming "Sesame Square." After years away from the Nigerian airwaves, "Sesame Street" will return with a Nigerian version titled "Sesame Square," beginning in late September. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS South Korea's Park Chu-young, right, tries to score a goal as Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama, left, prepares to punch it away during the World Cup group B soccer match between Nigeria and South Korea at the stadium in Durban, South Africa, Tuesday, June 22, 2010.

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Greece's Vassilis Torosidis, right, and Nigeria's Peter Odemwingie, left, head the ball during the World Cup Group B soccer match between Greece and Nigeria at Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein, South Africa, Thursday, June 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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**FILE** Cars are seen parked outside Murtala Mohammed airport in Lagos, Nigeria, on Dec. 26, 2009. Northwest Airlines passenger Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian claiming to be acting on orders from al Qaeda, set off an explosive device on a Christmas Day flight in a failed terrorist attack on the plane as it was landing in Detroit. The suspect boarded in Nigeria and went through Amsterdam en route to Detroit.

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** FILE ** Nigeria's acting president, Goodluck Jonathan (right), takes the oath of office in front of Chief Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu (left) to become the nation's next leader, at the presidential villa in Abuja, Nigeria, on Thursday, May 6, 2010. Mr. Jonathan was sworn in just hours after the death of the oil-rich country's elected leader, whose long illness had sparked a leadership crisis. (AP Photo)

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** FILE ** Al Qaeda makes its presence known in a Muslim area of Kano, Nigeria. The increasingly active and growing Islamic Maghreb is threatening to further destabilize fragile governments in heavily Islamic North Africa. (Associated Press)