It was at least the 11th attempted act of piracy in Nigerian waters this year.
Prof Kirkpatrick also provides this sample of Nigerian pidgin English: "Monkey DE work, baboon dey chop" (Monkeys work, baboons eat).
No clear information about the source of the Nigerian outbreak is presently available, but the country is known to lie along a flight route for birds migrating from central Asia.
The father of the Nigerian "Christmas bomber" reported his son's radicalism to the U.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian student who tried to down an American airliner with explosive underpants on Christmas Day, had been in Yemen since August.
It is also unclear whether his son was on any Nigerian watch lists.
On the same day, at the inaugural ceremony of Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in Monrovia, Li held cordial talks with Nigerian President Obasanjo.
But Nigerian leaders are so greedy that they have subverted the entire machinery of state to serve their needs.
April's elections were marked by violence and fraud on a scale that boggled the imagination even of jaded Nigerian voters.
The narrator is a Nigerian-born doctor who spends his evenings walking the streets of New York.
In a statement, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan called the attack, "barbaric, senseless and cowardly."
A Nigerian judge rejects the inclusion of more cases in a$7 bn Nigerian lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
