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The Supreme Court now takes centre stage as the arbiter of a poll that five opposition candidates have rejected in the DRC’s presidential election.
Just as a fresh breeze now blows through the country’s politics and press, Tunisia’s cultural institutions too have the chance to flourish.
A Nigerian minister has called on ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua to transfer power, a senior official said on Thursday.
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua is facing pressure to divert more government revenues towards oil-producing states in the impoverished south.
Nigeria does not know exactly how much of the black gold it churns but one thing is certain — three years of attacks have led to a sharp decline.
A proposed law aimed at reforms of Nigeria’s oil sector is halfway through the legislative stages but is sending jitters among oil operators.
Rich in oil and gas, the Niger Delta is the cornerstone of Nigeria’s economy, but the region is a nightmare for the authorities and its residents.
Nigeria’s Supreme Court is expected to decide on Thursday whether to rule invalid the election of President Umaru Yar’Adua.
With unrest in the Niger Delta cutting into oil output, Nigeria has made peace efforts a priority, but has little to show for its efforts.
Nigeria has become the world piracy ”hot spot”, with its prized oil industry a particular target, and the raiders have exposed flaws in the country’s security. Despite the…
More than 3 000 delegates from 193 nations will descend on the Ghana capital, Accra, on Sunday for five days of United Nations talks on globalisation — against a backdrop of…
Despite being the world’s eighth petroleum exporter and sitting on huge gas reserves, Nigeria will not have it easy over the next two years, between peristent unrest in the Niger…
Umaru Yar’Adua has been in charge of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and biggest oil producer, for six months and is already struggling against endemic corruption and…
Without its highway bridges spanning the lagoon, Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria, would be paralysed. Every day, well before dawn, tens of millions of vehicles set out…
Without its immense motorway bridges spanning the lagoon, Lagos, the tentacular commercial capital of Nigeria, would be paralysed. Every day, well before dawn, tens of millions…
A corruption scandal is rattling Nigeria’s navy after officials revealed that two vice-admirals and eight officers now retired are suspected of having been involved in contraband…
”I did my best,” Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said in an interview with the media as he looked back on eight years in office and rejected foreign and domestic criticism…
Nigeria, which will on Thursday host its first-ever meeting of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, is a paradox: the country ranks sixth among the world’s oil…
Armed youths have released dozens of Nigerian employees of the oil company Shell and its subcontractors, but about 15 workers are still being held at a flow station in the…
Doubts are growing in the west African country of Togo that President Gnassingbe Eyadema, in power for 36 years, will actually respect a pledge to step down in 2003.
