Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
Britain has offered to help Nigeria overhaul its energy sector as part of Gordon Brown's attempts to encourage oil exporters to boost production to tame this year's surge in oil prices.
SoccerLens (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nigeria v Argentina Saturday, 23 August 2008 2008 Olympic Football Final Argentina and Nigeria will meet in Beijing on Saturday evening to decide who’ll walk away as Olympic football champions. Argentina are the defending champions and turned in a classy performance to dispose of Brazil in the semi-finals but Nigeria are no slouches either. Nigeria can rightfully claim [...]
Alertnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: IRIN At least 100,000 infants die from the sickle-cell genetic disorder in Nigeria every year, and the country still has the highest incidence of the illness in Africa.
The Economist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Doubts persist about Nigeria’s banks THE bright logos of Nigeria’s financial institutions adorn the tallest and poshest office blocks in central Lagos, the country’s commercial capital, testimony to years of impressive growth in banking. But now, after a rocky year, there are worries that some of the optimism may have been overblown. The reform of Nigeria’s creaking, corrupt banking system was one...
About things too concerning to ignore (Free subscription) | yesterday
The more I hear Professor Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke defend herself about the African for Obama farce the less I am impressed with her. Leave Comment Related Entries: Nigeria: I am a very intelligent person (Africans for Obama) Pursuing a cause greater than self Nigeria: Senator frogjumps her back wall No race issues about Obama or Clinton Those Super Delegates He´s Barack but she´s back Baling out trust...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has replaced his chief of defence staff and named new heads of the army, navy and air force in his first major military shake-up since taking office more than a year ago.
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua announces the surprise sacking of the country's top three military chiefs.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
A Nigerian group backing Barack Obama says money it raised was not meant for his campaign.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
A Nigerian group backing Barack Obama says money it raised was not meant for his campaign.
Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | yesterday
Reporters Without Borders is saddened and dismayed by the murder of Paul Abayomi Ogundeji, a reporter for the privately-owned daily Thisday and a member of its editorial board. He was gunned down in Lagos on 17 August, less than two years after Godwin Agbroko, the chairman of its editorial board, was killed in similar circumstances.The press freedom organisation wrote today to police commissioner Ali...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
August 14, 2008 may have gone down as a day of political significance to both Nigeria and Cameroun. But to Nigeria, the day would remain a a day of national tragedy while Cameroun will remember it a day of politico-legal triumph over the former .
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
If truly President Umaru Yar'Adua is a servant leader, he should quickly begin moves to scrap the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Director-General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Prof (Mrs) Ndidi Okereke- Onyiuke, was yesterday questioned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over her involvement in the "Obama for Africa" campaign.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday raised alarm over secret plots by some group of persons in collaboration with some foreign entities to "sabotage the nation and reverse the progress we have so far made as a democratic nation."
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Memorandum of Understanding aimed at improving the country's epileptic power supply was yesterday signed between Nigeria and Germany. The highlight of the ceremony which was performed by Nigeria 's Foreign Affairs Minister, Ojo Maduekwe and the German Ambassador to Nigeria , Joachim Schmillien and witnessed by President Umaru Yar'Adua was the return of Siemens to the Nigerian economy as it billed...
