Nigeria: Another Faction Of Boko Haram Emerges
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-02 08:06:24 -0700 | political-news
Boko Haram Abuja A new insurgent group known as Nassiruddeen Li Ahlil Jihad Alal Kitab Was Sunnah, or Islamic Victors Committed to Qur'an and Sunnah, yesterday claimed that it had taken possession of a large cache of weapons following its...
West Africa: Human Rights Groups Want Mechanism to Enforce ECOWAS Court Decisions
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-02 06:51:41 -0700 | political-news
The groups also said at the end of a two-day meeting and annual general assembly in Abuja that violators of the Court's decisions should be sanctioned...The meeting provided the forum a chance to agree on ways of increasing the capacity...
Nigeria: Challenges of Tackling Ill Treatment of Nigerian Citizens Abroad
Source: Africa Headlines
Lagos :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-02 04:13:07 -0700 | political-news
Beijing IN late November 2011, there was a published report of crisis in a Nigerian mission in Asia involving Nigerian citizens resident in Bangkok and former officials of the embassy. A video of that scene was posted on YouTube and...
Nigeria: Managing the Malaria Scourge
Source: Africa Headlines
Lagos :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-02 04:13:05 -0700 | political-news
Instituted by the World Health Organization (WHO) member states during the World Health Assembly of 2007, the special day aims to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political will in the prevention and control of malaria. This preventable...
Nigeria: I Will Contest Presidential Election Again in 2015 - - Buhari
Source: Africa Headlines
Minna :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-02 04:13:05 -0700 | political-news
Buhari who lost the 2011election on the platform of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, however said he was ready to step down for any other better candidate that may emerge under the new party. He spoke in Minna, capital of...
Nigeria: Save This Power Project From Collapse
Source: Africa Headlines
Kaduna :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-02 04:13:03 -0700 | political-news
Reports suggest that the project, to which huge financial and other resources have been committed, has suffered a major setback caused apparently by shoddy planning. According to these reports, the transportation of the seven remaining turbines from Onne Port in...
Lady Mechanic Initiative Trains Women For 'The Best Job'
Source: National Public Radio
Lagos :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-02 00:48:49 -0700 | political-news
Now, as a garage owner, Aguebor-Ekperuoh also oversees the training of the young women who're learning to become car mechanics just as she did almost 30 years ago. They are paid apprentices, and the "Lady Mechanic," as they affectionately call...
Susno must abide by ruling, says chief justice
Source: The Jakarta Post
Ago :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-01 19:25:35 -0700 | political-news
As a good citizen, he must obey the law and accept the verdict, Hatta said on Wednesday...Susno, who has been officially declared a fugitive after refusing to be put behind bars when a group of prosecutors came to arrest him,...
Nigeria: Labour Congress Slams Kaduna Govt Over Casual Workers
Source: Africa Headlines
Kaduna :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-01 12:13:37 -0700 | political-news
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Kaduna State on Wednesday decried continued use of casual workers by the state government, saying some of the workers were being paid N5,000 as monthly salary. The state NLC Chairman, Mr Adamu Ango, said...
Has Nigeria's Niger Delta managed to buy peace?
Source: BBC
Yenagoa :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-01 06:58:50 -0700 | political-news
With two machine guns on board, the speed boat raced up and down the palm-fringed creek of Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta as several enthusiastic soldiers whooped with excitement...These Nigerian soldiers have good reason to be on high alert. Gunmen recently...
Nigeria: Obasanjo, Yar'Adua, GEJ Misused N1.2 Trillion - Senate Report
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-01 03:38:38 -0700 | political-news
Abuja A Report of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts, presented to the Senate, yesterday, revealed how the Federal Government under three successive administrations from 2002 to 2012, grossly abused funds from the nation's Special Funds Accounts to the tune...
Rivers State Future: Princewill Receives IDC Limited baseline Survey Report
Posted by: Faustinus
Port Harcourt :: Nigeria | updated 2013-04-30 22:06:01 -0700 | political-news
Rivers State Future: Princewill Receives IDC Limited baseline Survey Report Prince Tonye Princewill, a PDP Chieftain has received the report of a socio-economic baseline survey of the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State from a World Bank Consultancy Firm,...
Mobile Phones to Help English Language Skills in Nigeria
Source: Scoop
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-04-30 17:55:31 -0700 | political-news
The United Nations educational agency today said it is ready to launch a pilot project combining mobile technology and teachers' development to support primary school English teachers in Nigeria, which has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world....
Nigeria: The Forgotten Empire - the Walls of Benin
Source: Africa Headlines
Benin :: Nigeria | updated 2013-04-30 07:31:26 -0700 | political-news
Man-made wonders of the world such as the Taj Mahal in India, the Cairo Citadel in Egypt and the Colosseum in Rome attract millions of visitors each year and lay claim to represent the architectural brilliance of our past. But...
Nigeria: Nigeria Loses N2.83 Trillion Annually to Inaccurate Measurements
Source: Africa Headlines
Lagos :: Nigeria | updated 2013-04-30 04:18:50 -0700 | political-news
Sani, however said that a system to provide unparalleled opportunity to address the infrastructure and human capacity challenges and to take the enforcement of legal metrology to a new level has just been launched...In a developing economy like Nigeria, the...
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