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/ 8 November 2005
The Niger Delta’s Ogoni minority will mark the 10th anniversary of the execution of their champion Ken Saro-Wiwa on Thursday, amid anger that so little here has changed since his death shocked the world. Saro-Wiwa and eight of his comrades were hanged on November 10 1995 by Nigeria’s then military regime.
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/ 24 October 2005
Nigeria began three days of national mourning on Monday as investigators sought to find out why a passenger airline had crashed to earth and been ripped apart, killing all the 117 passengers and crew on board. Emergency workers continued with the gruesome task of disentangling the shredded corpses of the passengers from the widely scattered wreckage of the Boeing 737 jet.
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/ 21 September 2005
Nigerian separatist militants warned foreign workers to flee the Niger Delta on Wednesday as they threatened to retaliate for the arrest of their leader by attacking oil wells and pipelines. The leader of the banned Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari, was ”invited for questioning” in Abuja on Tuesday.
With the world’s demand for oil and gas surging, multinational energy giants have embarked on a platform-building spree off the southern coast of Nigeria with an eye to doubling exports from the unruly West African giant. Nigeria’s expansion will be a key factor in meeting the challenge of rising prices and rising consumption.
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/ 25 February 2005
As African Catholics prayed for the health of Pope John Paul II on Friday, speculation mounted that the ailing pontiff could soon be succeeded by Africa’s first pope in more than 1 500 years. With church congregations rising across Africa, Asia and Latin America, observers see a global church that is increasingly oriented towards the south.
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/ 7 December 2004
Nigerian villagers lifted their blockade of three oil pumping stations in the volatile Niger Delta on Tuesday after energy giants Shell and ChevronTexaco agreed to discuss funding local development projects. The three plants had been occupied since Sunday morning by protesters from the ethnic Ijaw fishing community of Kula.
Business was good in the taverns of Kano as the city’s football fanatics gathered to watch the English FA Cup quarterfinals this weekend, and as the beer sellers stacked crate after crate of empties back onto their trucks they seemed unaware that this might be one of their last loads.
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/ 12 January 2004
Boxer Laila Ali cancelled, teen diva Ashanti cut short her set and rapper DMX had some harsh words for the crowd, but their young fans kept the party going amid teargas and horsewhips at Nigeria’s biggest ever Aids/HIV awareness gig.
Amina Lawal, facing death by stoning for adultery, will be back before an Islamic court in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, hoping to launch her delayed second appeal against the sentence.