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Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan loses parliament majority

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has lost his majority in the House of Representatives after 37 MPs defected to a new opposition party.

The MPs said in a letter to the speaker of the 360-seat lower chamber that they had joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) party.

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