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WorldStage
May 16, 2012
By Oladipupo Akinwunmi WorldStage Newsonline-- As part of efforts to consolidate it campaign for
Nigerians to buy made-in-Nigeria IT products and provide the enabling framework for the development of the
Indigenous IT sector, National Information ...
Myjoyonline.com
May 16, 2012
Months ago the US Department of State warned US citizens of the risks of travelling to states like Imo in Nigeria because of
kidnapping and robbery.
AllAfrica.com
May 16, 2012
By Judd-Leonard Okafor, 15 May 2012 Issues along Nigeria's marine and coastal belt are set to dominate the country's participation at a United Nations convention in
Congo Brazzaville this November.
AllAfrica.com
May 16, 2012
"The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has noted the response of Dr Goodluck Jonathan, as
president of Nigeria, to the altruistic statement credited to our National Leader, General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB) wherein he had stated inter-alia dire ...
Vanguard
May 16, 2012
ABUJA - The Federal Government has entered into agreements with two French companies for the expansion of Nigeria's transmission network, valued at about $200 million or N3.14 billion.
China Daily
May 16, 2012
LAGOS - Nigeria's inflation rate rose to 12.9 percent in April, year on year, driven largely by non-food items and a very price stable comparative month in April last year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday.
Daily Mail
May 16, 2012
By Daily Mail Reporter
religious authorities in a strict
Muslim state in Nigeria have held a mass wedding for 100 couples as part of government plans to match make 1000 widows and divorcees.
The Nation Newspaper
May 16, 2012
Nigeria is among the countries still behind in remitting their regular budget dues to the world body up-to-date. According to the UN Department of Management's details released on Tuesday (following a presentation to the UN 5th Committee on Monday ...
IRINnews.org
May 16, 2012
ABUJA, 15 May 2012 (IRIN) - Aid
organizations and rights groups are putting more pressure on the Nigerian government to release a promised US$5.4 million in aid for lead-poisoned
children, but government officials keep ducking the issue.
Washington Post
May 16, 2012
LAGOS, Nigeria - The mass firing of doctors in Nigeria's largest city is exposing the downfalls of the nation's failing medical system.
AllAfrica.com
May 15, 2012
Some 1.5 million people are in need of ARV treatment, which is currently available for only an estimated 500000 people, according to John Idoko, director-general of National Agency for Control of AIDS, which runs anti-
HIV response for Nigeria--with the ...
P.M. News
May 15, 2012
Lagos State Governor Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) in company of the Nigerian minister of State for
agriculture, Mallam Bukar Tijani on Tuesday handed over the 20000 metric tonnes Imota Rice Processing factory, with the Governor charging youths to roll up ...
AllAfrica.com
May 15, 2012
By Ibrahim Abdul'aziz, 15 May 2012 Yola - Following a raid by unidentified
gunmen in Lamurde local government area of
Adamawa State last Sunday in which many lives were lost, more than 2000 displaced people are now taking refuge in neighboring states ...
NRToday.com
May 15, 2012
By DAVID PORTER AP An
illegal immigrant from Nigeria who allegedly used a murder victim's name to work as an airport security supervisor in
New Jersey the past 20 years has pleaded not guilty to identity theft.
The Daily Star
May 15, 2012
By Tim Cocks LAGOS: Nigeria's inflation rate rose to 12.9 percent in April, year on year, driven largely by non-food items and a very price stable comparative month in April last year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday.
AllAfrica.com
May 15, 2012
By Tokunbo Adedoja, 15 May 2012 New York - The oft-repeated and much-quoted "prediction" by the United States that Nigeria would break up in 2015 is one of the greatest myths ever, THISDAY can report today. The "prediction", which is now referred to ...
CNN
May 15, 2012
By Tim Hume for
CNN A new bride, wearing Kosibah, and her husband at a Nigerian wedding. nigerian weddings are becoming increasingly extravagant affairs.
AllAfrica.com
May 15, 2012
In response to the growing demand from
consumers in Nigeria for Grade 'A'
football matches, Guinness Nigeria Plc has announced that Arsenal Football Club has chosen Malta Guinness to be the Official Malt Drink of the club in Nigeria for the next three ...
The Citizen Daily
May 15, 2012
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan (pictured) is coming under pressure to prosecute top officials implicated in a $6.8 billion fuel subsidy fraud, but many of
the suspects are allies he is unlikely to go after if he wants to keep his power base ...
BBC News
May 15, 2012
A hundred couples have been
married in a mass ceremony sponsored by local government in northern Nigeria. It is the first of a batch planned by
religious authorities for
Muslim women who have been divorced or widowed - a total of 1000 couples are to be ...
Reuters
May 15, 2012
Around 17 pct of production lost,
finance minister says * Oil bunkering on the rise in Nigeria LAGOS May 15 (Reuters) - Nigeria is losing nearly a fifth of its revenues to oil thieves, Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was quoted as saying in the ...
The Nation Newspaper
May 15, 2012
By ADEBISI ONANUGA 9 hours 11 minutes ago Oladosu Ogunniyi is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Disciplinary Committee and winner of the association's national merit award for his outstanding contributions to the profession and the NBA.
Vanguard
May 15, 2012
The first part was published last Friday TRIBALISM/
ethnicity/sectionalism: It is my contention that tribalism,
Ethnicity and sectionalism played the most part of Nigeria's political instability. Most of the military interventions experienced in Nigeria ...
IT News Africa
May 15, 2012
With 45 million users of Internet and 4312060 users of Facebook representing a 29,0% penetration into the population(1) Nigeria is the most populous country in
Africa and is no doubt a bustling metropolis within the world of technology.
Nigerian Tribune
May 15, 2012
THE National Judicial Council (NJC), on Monday, formally delivered its resolution on the reinstatement of the suspended president of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami, to President Goodluck Jonathan, Nigerian Tribune learnt on Monday night.
Reuters Africa
May 15, 2012
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's inflation rate rose to 12.9 percent in April, year on year, from 12.1 percent in March, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday.
Space Daily
May 15, 2012
Director-general of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) Mohammed Seidu disclosed this on Friday in Abuja, adding that Nigeria's first
satellite in orbit NigeriaSat-1 is to be decommissioned soon. Seidu, who was giving a rundown ...
ITWeb
May 15, 2012
Growth in Nigeria is about to make
South Africa look like a slow Sunday at the
sewing machine store. Sales outside North America make up 70% of total revenue, and regions making the biggest contribution to that chunk of income include South
Africa, ...
AllAfrica.com
May 15, 2012
By Jimoh Babatunde, 13 May 2012 It was amazing to hear Arsene Wenger switch from English Language to French and then German during the announcement of Arsenal's pre-season tour of Nigeria at the club's training ground in
London last week before the ...
Sunday Times.lk
May 15, 2012
ABUJA, May 13 (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is coming under pressure to prosecute top officials implicated in a $6.8 billion fuel subsidy fraud, but many of
the suspects are allies he is unlikely to go after if wants to keep his ...
Reuters
May 15, 2012
Oil bunkering - tapping into
pipelines - is on the rise * Shell says theft a major cause of
oil spills By Tim Cocks LAGOS, May 14 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell's Nigeria joint venture is losing 43000 barrels a day (bpd) of crude oil to theft, ...
AllAfrica.com
May 15, 2012
Segun Aganga, minister of trade and investment, said the presence of the Glencore in Nigeria is a major development that will bring about a robust
mining industry and induce development in other areas as well.
AllAfrica.com
May 14, 2012
By Chidi Nkwopara, 14 May 2012 Owerri - A total of 81565 candidates sat for this year's National Common Entrance Examination into Federal Government Unity Colleges and Federal Science and Technical Colleges nationwide.
Myjoyonline.com
May 14, 2012
The accounts of the Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC and the Nigerian Mission in New York might have been frozen by the
Bank of America and
Wells Fargo, two leading financial
institutions in the United States of America over alleged
money laundering ...
Salon
May 14, 2012
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) - Witnesses say at least seven
police officers have been killed in northeast Nigeria in separate attacks likely carried out by a radical Islamist sect operating in the region.
Ahram Online
May 14, 2012
The Nigeria forward has been one of Blackburn's few success stories this season and he netted his 17th goal of the season when he diverted Scott Dann's header home after Morten Gamst Pedersen had delivered a corner from the left flank.
NgEX
May 14, 2012
Nigeria's Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has arrested executives of UTC, Pivot
engineering, Reliance Telecommunications,
Entertainment Highway, HITV, John Holt and Sweet Sensation for allegedly failing to remit N2.17 billion in
taxes.
Vanguard
May 14, 2012
By Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke The
global financial meltdown which started from the US, in 2006 as a result of the glut in the
mortgage industry, spread like a contagion to Europe,
Asia, and then to the emerging
markets in
Africa, including Nigeria.
AllAfrica.com
May 14, 2012
Abuja - Nigeria - The Federal Commissioner for Nigeria's National Commission for Refugees (NCFR), Hajiya Hadiza Kangiwa, on Monday, 23rd April, 2012 paid a courtesy call on the ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs,
peace and Security, ...
Reuters Africa
May 14, 2012
By Joe Brock ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is coming under pressure to prosecute top officials implicated in a $6.8 billion fuel subsidy fraud, but many of
the suspects are allies he is unlikely to go after if wants to keep his ...
AllAfrica.com
May 14, 2012
By Festus Akanbi, 13 May 2012 Air Nigeria has embarked on a growth plan to emerge as one of a few African airlines to own the high capacity but cost efficient Boeing 787 Dreamliner
aircraft, as the airline has ordered and will be paying for four of the ...
AllAfrica.com
May 14, 2012
We concluded that there was no basis for
Nigerians to expect improved social welfare or any form of reduction in the rate of unemployment under the CBN's current operational and monetary framework.
Chicago Tribune
May 14, 2012
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is coming under pressure to prosecute top officials implicated in a $6.8 billion fuel subsidy fraud, but many of
the suspects are allies he is unlikely to go after if wants to keep his power base ...
AllAfrica.com
May 14, 2012
By Chinedu Eze, 14 May 2012 It was a historic moment yesterday when Air Nigeria's Airbus A330-200
aircraft touched down for the first time at the Murtala Mohammed Interna-tional Airport, Lagos in preparation for commencement of operations on the ...
BusinessWeek
May 14, 2012
By JON GAMBRELL French oil company Total SA said Sunday it stopped a natural gas leak at one of its plants in Nigeria's crude-rich southern delta after 54 days, an emergency that forced the firm to shut down the field and evacuate the area.
Fox Business
May 14, 2012
IBADAN, Nigeria -- Shell
petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd. loses at least 43000 barrels of oil a day to crude theft and illegal bunkering in Nigeria's
Niger Delta, a company's spokesman said Monday. Last year, sabotage and crude oil theft ...
MinnPost.com
May 14, 2012
By Ibrahim Garba,
Christian Science Monitor | 08:32 am Nigeria military task force (JTF) on Friday arrested a high-profile Boko Haram operational commander, along with his wife and five
children, during a raid at his residence on Farawa Babban Layi ...
BusinessWeek
May 14, 2012
By JON GAMBRELL Regulators in Nigeria have fined four mobile phone carriers a total of $7.3 million over poor service in a nation that depends on cellular phones for communications, a spokesman said Sunday.
The West Australian
May 13, 2012
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is coming under pressure to prosecute top officials implicated in a $6.8 billion fuel subsidy fraud, but many of
the suspects are allies he is unlikely to go after if wants to keep his power base ...
