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New group formed to defend northern interests

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    A group in Kano, northern Nigeria, has said it is setting up an
    organisation to defend the interests of Hausa-Fulanis following recent clashes in Lagos between Hausa and Yoruba traders, the BBC reported. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has blamed the violence on a militant Yoruba organisation, the Oodua People's Congress.

    The Kano group said it had opened an office to mobilise people - and would be responding to violence with violence, the BBC reported.

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