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United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took her campaign for good governance on Wednesday to Nigeria.
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua said on Tuesday he had ordered an investigation into last week’s deadly uprising in northern Nigeria.
Nigeria’s main militant group said its fighters had attacked an oil facility belonging to Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta on Monday.
Nigeria’s ruling party has narrowly won a re-run governorship race in the southwestern state of Ekiti.
Nigeria’s biggest armed group dismissed an amnesty offer from the government as ”unrealistic” on Friday.
Nigeria has launched a campaign to improve its battered international image for corruption and crime.
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/ 12 December 2008
Nigeria’s Supreme Court upheld the election of President Umaru Yar’Adua on Friday, giving him the mandate to lead Africa’s most populous nation.
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/ 23 October 2008
Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Thursday deferred ruling on a challenge to President Umaru Yar’Adua’s April 2007 election victory.
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/ 22 October 2008
Nigeria’s Supreme Court is expected to decide on Thursday whether to rule invalid the election of President Umaru Yar’Adua.
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/ 12 October 2008
The question should not be whether Zuma is good for Nigeria, but rather, whether a president Zuma can afford to call the bluff of the Nigerian govt.
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/ 12 September 2008
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua’s strengthening grip on power is still unlikely to mean a revival of economic reforms that have stagnated.
With oil prices at record highs, government coffers in the world’s eighth biggest oil exporter are swollen to unprecedented levels.
Threatened with beheading and harried by pirates, people fleeing the Niger Delta’s Bonny Island this weekend struggled to reach Port Harcourt.
A Nigerian court upheld the disputed election of the Senate president on Tuesday, ending uncertainty over who would run Africa’s most populous nation.
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua believes a peace summit slated for this month on the Niger Delta will end the crisis in the restive oil-rich region.
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.
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua has ordered the country’s armed forces to tighten security in the Niger Delta.
President Thabo Mbeki on Tuesday denied reports that the South African government had been warned of the prospect of xenophobic attacks by the National Intelligence Agency. ”There was no such intelligence reports — they certainly did not come to me,” he said.