Nigeria: More Oil Blocks Face Revocation
More oil blocks may be revoked following moves being made by the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee investigating the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), its subsidiaries and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). THISDAY was also informed last night that the committee will urge President Umaru Musa Yar`Adua not ...
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Nigeria: Yar’Adua Seeks Concerted Efforts against Trade in Stolen Oil
The Federal Government would soon send a proposal to the United Nations for decisive action to be taken by the international community to clampdown on illicit trade in stolen crude oil.In a press statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Communications, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, the President made ...
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Niger: Niger signs power deal with China
The government in Niger has signed an agreement for China to help improve the country`s power supplies. China will transfer several electrical power units to Niger under the agreement, officials said. The deal comes as Niger`s cities have been experiencing power outages, partly due to problems in supply from ...
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Nigeria: First Batch of Imported Bagged Cement Arrives August
The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr Charles Ugwuh, has stated that the first batch of bagged cement for which seven companies were issued licenses by the federal government last month will arrive the country’s shore in August.The minister who addressed newsmen yesterday in Lagos Said all the seven firms ...
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Nigeria: South African wins top book prize
South African novelist Henrietta Rose-Innes has been named the winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. She won the award for her story Poison which was published in the anthology Africa Pens, and takes a £10,000 prize. The other four writers on the shortlist were from Ghana, Malawi, and ...
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Nigeria: Imoke Swears in Commissioners
Cross River State Governor, Liyel Imoke, has admonished members of the state Executive Council to be prepared to render service, as cabinet reshuffle is a continuous exercise.While swearin in four new commissioners as members of the executive council yesterday, Imoke said the exercise was to optimise requirement of the state ...
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Nigeria: Power Probe: House Panel Indicts Former Minister
The House of Representatives Committee on Power and Steel which probed the expenses in the Power Sector may have indicted a former minister of Power and Steel over the handling of projects in the sector.THISDAY also learnt that though the committee in specific cases recommended that the Economic and Financial ...
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Nigeria: Fani-Kayode, Borishade, Iyayi Granted Bail
Nine days after they were arrested and detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC], two former Aviation Ministers, Professor Babalola Borishade and Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, were granted bail in the sum of N50 million each and sureties in the like-sum by an Abuja Chief Magistrate Court.Also granted bail ...
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Guinea: Mann sentenced for E Guinea plot
Former British soldier Simon Mann has been sentenced to 34 years and four months in jail by an Equatorial Guinea court for his role in a 2004 coup plot. The verdict followed Mann`s trial in the capital Malabo last month in which he admitted conspiring to oust President Teodoro ...
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Nigeria: More Oil Blocks Face Revocation
More oil blocks may be revoked following moves being made by the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee investigating the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), its subsidiaries and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR).THISDAY was also informed last night that the committee will urge President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua not to ...
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Nigeria: Diesel Heads for N200 per Litre
Nigeria’s energy crisis may further worsen as indications have emerged that the price of diesel – on which the economy is heavily dependent – may soon hit N200 per litre.The pump price currently hovers around N150 and N160 in Lagos, while it is selling higher in other major towns and ...
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Nigeria: Two million at risk of radiation cancer
KANO, 7 July 2008 (IRIN) - Nigerian environmental and health officials warn that slightly radioactive tailings found in abandoned mines in central Nigeria’s Plateau state poses a health risk to around two million inhabitants. Laboratory analysis conducted earlier this year by officials from Nigeria’s nuclear research agency of 1,100 abandoned ...
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Nigeria: Trafficking of girls, abuse worsening
KANO, 7 July 2008 (IRIN) - The trafficking of girls from villages to cities in Nigeria is increasing and the state is powerless to stop the trade, officials told IRIN. “The business of recruiting teenage girls as domestic help in rich and middle-class homes is booming despite our efforts to ...
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Nigeria: `Shell Not Yet Directed to Leave Ogoniland`
Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), has denied getting any directive from the Federal Government to leave Ogoniland. Speaking in an interactive session with journalists in Port Harcourt weekend, the Managing Director of Shell, Mr. Mutiu Sumonu, said Shell had heard of the Presidential pronouncement on its ...
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Nigeria: Rivers’ First Civilian Gov, Okilo, is Dead
The first Executive Governor of old Rivers State, Chief Melford Okilo, is dead. Okilo, a Senator in the Federal Republic between 1999 and 2003, died at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Yenagoa, where he was taken following an illness associated with old age. Okilo’s death is coming barely three days ...
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Nigeria: ‘Shell Not Yet Directed to Leave Ogoniland’
Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), has denied getting any directive from the Federal Government to leave Ogoniland.Speaking in an interactive session with journalists in Port Harcourt weekend, the Managing Director of Shell, Mr. Mutiu Sumonu, said Shell had heard of the Presidential pronouncement on its facilities in ...
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Nigeria: NHIS: ‘Subscribers Prefer Tertiary Health Institutions’
Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme, Dr. Muhammad Dogo- Muhammad , has said 80 per cent of Nigerians in the National Health Insurance Scheme(NHIS) have shown preference for tertiary health facilities, rather than primary health-care centres. The implication is that eight out of every 10 enrolees want to access medical ...
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Nigeria: Auto Firm to Site Assembly Plant in Osun
The investment drive of the Osun State Government has received a boost as arrangements are in the pipeline by Geely Motors to have an assembly plant in the State.Chairman of Hyra Motors, Hycinth Enuha ,broke the cheering news to the Governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola when he paid him a courtesy ...
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Nigeria: 7 Pupils Die as School Building Collapses
No fewer than seven school children were weekend confirmed dead while four others sustained various degrees of injuries when a school building located in Mgbom community in Afikpo, Afikpo North local government area of Ebonyi state collapsed .The school, St. Theresa Montessori Nursery/primary and Secondary school, belonging to one Chief ...
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Nigeria: Yobo: Kidnappers Yet to Demand Ransom–Police
Kidnappers of NornuYobo, elder brother of Super Eagles and Everton of England defender, Joseph Yobo, have not made any ransom demand 24 hours after they abducted him.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that NornuYobo was abducted by unknown gunmen while returning from a night party at about 5: 00am ...
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Nigeria: Globacom Appoints Group COO for Glo Mobile
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Nigeria: FG Revokes Indian Firms’ Oil Blocks
The Federal Government has reversed the award of three oil blocks – Oil Prospecting Leases (OPLs) 226, 2005 and 2006 – which were awarded to two Indian oil companies, Essar Exploration and Production Limited and Sterling Global Resources Limited, during the 2007 oil bidding round held in May last year.In ...
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Nigeria: Power: The Real Emergency is Here
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Nigeria: Nigeria footballer`s brother held
Gunmen in Nigeria have kidnapped the elder brother of Nigerian and Everton football star Joseph Yobo, police say. Norum Yobo was seized at a hotel in Port Harcourt, a spokeswoman said. No group has yet claimed responsibility and no ransom has been demanded. Everton football club said it ...
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Nigeria: Ex-FAAN MD Clarifies Report on Odili
Former Managing Director of Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Alhaji Moha-mmed Yusuf, yesterday clarified his statement on the N2billion grant by former Governor of River State, Dr. Peter Odili, for the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt International Airport.Yusuf was quoted as having said at the Senate Public Hearing on the ...
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