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More than 30 drown after boat capsizes

    ABIDJAN

    More than 30 people were missing after their boat capsized in a river in northern Nigeria on Saturday, news organisations reported on Monday.

    About 34 persons were aboard the boat. Only one body had so far been found near the scene of the accident on the Matan Marfa river at Argungu in the north-western state of Kebbi, Reuters reported.

    Six die in student protest

    At least six people were killed when police fired on students demonstrating against the non-payment of teachers' salaries at a polytechnic in Iree, some 200 km northeast of Lagos, AFP reported on Saturday.

    Police had been deployed to enforce the closure of the polytechnic following a demonstration by students to put pressure on the government to pay overdue salaries.

    Grant worth 300 million euros to be made available

    Nigeria will receive a grant of 300 million euros (US $319 million) from the European Development Fund but details of how the money will be used are still to be finalised, Ambassador Veli Ollikainen, head of delegation of the European Commission, told IRIN on Tuesday.

    Ollikainen and the minister of state in the Foreign Ministry, Dubem Onyiam, met in Abuja on Monday to discuss the grant, which had been suspended during the regime of late General Sani Abacha, as well as other assistance.

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