Nigeria Out of US terror lists

Nigeria may have  been delisted from  the countries that harbour or sponsor terrorism against the United States (US) and its allies which was the source of diplomatic tension between the two countries following

the ill-fated attempt by a foreign based Nigerian student, Farouk Umar Farouk Abdulmuttallab, to bomb a plane in Detroit, US  on December 25, 2009.

Nigeria’s external image took a dip in January 2010, when the US placed the country on global terror list following the failed attempt  by Abdulmutallab to detonate the bomb strapped to his pants  while, on  the domestic front, there have been a  spate of bomb blasts targeted at politicians, the security agencies, churches and academic institutions by the Boko Haram sect operating in the northern part of the country.-Local newspaper

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