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Rescue workers identified 62 of the 84 South Africans killed in the Nigeria building collapse. The building is a guesthouse of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) at Ikotun in Lagos. The collapse is currently being thought of as an accident.

While the Millennium Development Goals target to halve the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015, access to water, improved sanitation and hygiene is a daily challenge for many Nigerians. This article relates because it describes the challenges of Nigeria.

Nigerian's Islamic extremists have freed one of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls, but she is too traumatized to identify herself. Hundreds of girls, women and boys were kidnapped by the Boko Haram militants. The abduction of more than 270 schoolgirls from a school in the remote town of Chibok inspired a worldwide campaign for their freedom.

Friday morning a church collapsed in Nigeria killing at least 70 people, many of which were definitely from South Africa. President Zuma said that 67 of his compatriots died on Friday night, which is thought to be one of the worst tragedies in South African history, even more than many of the massacres during the time of Apartheid.

More than 130 members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram have surrendered to Nigeria's military after their leader was killed. Over the past five years, the group has killed thousands of people in guerrilla attacks, including the kidnapping of about 200 schoolgirls. This article relates to our discussion because it talks of terrorism.