Nigeria: Our Husbands Didn't Know They Were Going On Death Mission - Widows of Slain Policemen
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-20 05:10:20 -0700 | political-news
At the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital, Lafia, Nasarawa State, families gathered to identify their loved ones. Both men and women of all ages, ethnic and religious persuasions wept openly as the charred remains of police officers were displayed. A four-day...
Nigeria: Playing Dirty in Rivers
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-23 22:14:52 -0700 | political-news
In 2011, Rivers State delivered one of the nation's most stunning victories to Goodluck Jonathan in that year's presidential election. The electorates apparently overdid themselves, casting more votes for Jonathan than there were registers voters. Even the president acknowledged the...
Nigeria: Let's Have Common Citizenship in Africa - Thabo Mbeki
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-23 22:17:26 -0700 | travel-news
In this recent interview in South Africa with Professor Tandeka Nkiwane , Member, African of the Year Advisory Committee, he comments on his panels work, the challenges it faced, unfinished matters in Sudan as well as South Sudan, issues facing...
Nigeria: Okonjo-Iweala, Maku, Okoh, Ndukwe Pay Tributes As Achebe Burial Rites Begin
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-23 22:22:15 -0700 | political-news
Some of the personalities at the service include the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Information Minister, Labaran Maku; former Anambra State governor, Jim Nwobodo and the Primate of the Anglican Church, Rev Nicholas Okoh who described the late literary...
Nigeria: Excess Crude Account Drops to U.S.$5.27 Billion
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-19 22:43:07 -0700 | business-news
The Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Yerima Ngama, has said that the country's Excess Crude Account (ECA) has dropped to $5.27billion...National Economic Council (NEC) approved total sum of $2 billion for distribution to the three tiers of government out...
Nigeria offensive: 14 insurgents, 3 soldiers killed
Source: Zee News
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-23 22:24:42 -0700 | travel-news
At least 14 Islamist insurgents and three soldiers have been killed in Nigerian military's crackdown on terrorists, as the restive Maiduguri city in northern state of Borno was placed under a 24-hour curfew. "After a mop up of scenes of...
Dozens of militants killed by Nigerian military air raids
Source: Zee News
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-18 09:12:18 -0700 | travel-news
Nigerian military pounded the camps of Islamic militant group Boko Haram's strongholds across the northeast, killing dozens of militants, the military said. "The extremists were hit inside their camps since Wednesday in the affected states," Army spokesman Brigadier General Chris...
Africa: 25 Percent of Africa's Poor in Nigeria - UK Minister
Source: All Africa
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-23 22:50:10 -0700 | technology-news
The United Kingdom's International Development Minister, Lynne Featherstone yesterday said a quarter of sub-Sahara Africa's poor people live in Nigeria. Nigeria said during a press conference in Abuja; "A quarter of Sub-Sahara Africa's poor live in Nigeria, which is home...
Nigeria: Senate Celebrates Achebe, Demands State Burial for Him
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-16 05:25:11 -0700 | political-news
The upper chamber also assigned a delegation to commiserate with Achebe's family, the people and government of Anambra State. While imploring the federal government to name a major federal highway or street in Abuja as well as a national monument...
Nigeria: Court Orders EFCC to Evacuate Stolen Crude Oil
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-16 05:25:10 -0700 | political-news
Act, 2004, asked the court for an order granting it leave to evacuate the petroleum products conveyed by the suspects in trucks and vehicles as specified in the schedule attached to the affidavit for safe keeping. The commission stated that...
Nigeria Military Gets More Power to Fight Rebels
Source: Newyork Times
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-15 17:48:17 -0700 | travel-news
Troops have already begun deploying in the wake of a speech by the president, Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday night declaring a state of emergency in parts of the country's north, following weeks of violence in which hundreds were killed, including...
Nigera declares war on Islamist insurgents
Source: United Press International
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-23 23:06:26 -0700 | travel-news
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared war on Muslim militants seeking to establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, acknowledging after months of worsening bloodshed that the troubled oil-rich African state is battling a full-blown insurgency.
Nigeria: Politicians Behind Violence in Borno, Nasarawa, Others - Labaran Maku
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-23 23:24:50 -0700 | political-news
Mr. Maku spoke on Tuesday in Abuja at a public lecture organised by the Abuja council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ). The minister was reacting to the recent killing of security operatives in Nasarawa and Borno States. Maku...
`Unlike India, China not helping Nigeria stop fake drugs`
Source: Zee News
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-14 23:45:12 -0700 | political-news
On the other hand, the Indian government "has joined hands with the Nigerian authorities to fight the influx and has thus reduced the flow of such medicines from India," Jimoh added. Nigeria has been faced with the influx of counterfeit...
Amazon-style Web sites flourish in Nigeria
Source: Washington Post
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-14 10:49:40 -0700 | political-news
Very, very fine, Enweasor said, inspecting her purchase before handing over 7,500 naira, or about $47...As African economies such as Nigeria's have taken off, consumers and an emerging middle class have become increasingly important parts of the continent's growth story....
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