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/ 14 September 2009
Nigeria’s central bank governor did not follow due process in removing the heads of five banks, a lawyer for one of the sacked CEOs said on Monday.
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/ 11 September 2009
An amnesty programme in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta risks failing if the government does not back up its offer with serious peace talks.
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/ 11 September 2009
Nigerian challengers Kano Pillars and Heartland can clinch African Champions League semifinals places with home victories this weekend.
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/ 9 September 2009
Anglo-Dutch oil group Shell has halted oil production of 115 000 barrels a day at its EA oilfield in southern Nigeria, it said on Wednesday.
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/ 8 September 2009
The Republic of the Congo has offered Agri SA 10-million hectares for South African farmers to produce maize and soya beans.
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/ 2 September 2009
A top Nigerian militant who has held talks with the government about laying down arms took out a full-page advert on Wednesday detailing demands.
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/ 1 September 2009
Two key militant leaders in Nigeria’s Niger Delta have started informal talks with the government, an amnesty committee spokesperson said on Tuesday.
A top Nigerian militant has indicated he may accept a government pardon and lay down arms, the defence minister said on Tuesday.
Nigeria’s main militant group should rethink its threat to resume attacks on the country’s oil industry, a government official said on Monday.
Hundreds of Nigerian militants on Saturday surrendered their weapons, mortar bombs and gunboats as part of a federal amnesty programme.
Ziggy Owei describes herself as “a living example” that entrepreneurship can be taught.
Nigeria’s anti-graft police have given defaulting debtors of five banks rescued in a ,6-billion bailout a week to organise repayment or face arrest.
Police raided an Islamic community in the state of Niger and arrested hundreds of men, weeks after an uprising by a radical sect killed about 800.
On July 29 Christian witch-hunters accused of torturing and killing local children attacked and beat campaigners for child protection at a public meet
Hillary Clinton threw up more controversy on Wednesday night when she appeared to equate US democracy with Nigeria’s corrupt election system.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took her campaign for good governance on Wednesday to Nigeria.
Nigerians are losing their inhibitions as they sample cyberspace, writes Adetokunbo Abiola.
Nigeria and Angola are Africa’s top two oil producers, yet most of their people live in poverty, often in settlements dwarfed by derricks.
A 60-day amnesty for militant groups in Nigeria’s restive Niger Delta came into effect on Thursday.
Most of the 4 000 Maiduguri residents who fled last week’s violence have now returned home.
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua said on Tuesday he had ordered an investigation into last week’s deadly uprising in northern Nigeria.
Samuel Yunana’s father was taken from his home, stabbed in the side of the stomach and told to convert to Islam. When he refused, his throat was slit.
Nigerian authorities swept dozens of bodies into mass graves on Sunday in the grisly aftermath of last week’s Islamist uprising that killed hundreds.
More than 600 people were killed last week in clashes between the security forces and members of a radical Islamic sect in the city of Maiduguri.
Residents ventured on to the streets of the Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday after the authorities cleared the bodies of hundreds of victims.
Nigerian forces have shot dead an Islamist leader captured after an uprising that led to hundreds of deaths.
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua is facing pressure to divert more government revenues towards oil-producing states in the impoverished south.
Members of a Nigerian Islamist fundamentalist sect fled the northern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday after the military overran their base.
Muslim clerics in Nigeria on Wednesday slammed the violence led by a fundamentalist sect as criminal and an embarrassment to the religion.
Fighting raged through the night around an Islamist militant stronghold in northern Nigeria after three days of clashes, residents said on Wednesday.
Nigeria’s president on Tuesday placed security forces on maximum alert after two days of battles with radical Islamists in the north.
Sporadic gunfire rang out in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri overnight despite a curfew imposed after days of clashes.