Nigeria

Source: www.reuters.com --- 4 days ago
LAGOS (Reuters) - With oil prices at record highs, government coffers in the world's eighth biggest oil exporter are swollen to unprecedented levels. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 3 days ago
But Nigeria may be accelerating the current de-industrialisation if the present interest rate regime is not appropriately addressed to meet funding needs of the real sector, private sector chiefs have warned. The positive American review was contained in ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 5 days ago
With oil prices at record highs, government coffers in the world's eighth biggest oil exporter are swollen to unprecedented levels. Yet the vast majority of Nigeria's 140 million people live in no better conditions than their neighbours in West Africa, ...

Source: online.wsj.com --- 4 days ago
U.K. Prime Minister Brown has declared that Britain might offer military aid to Nigeria to help stabilize the country's oil-producing region. But he might need to soothe jitters about the energy infrastructure plan in his own backyard. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 5 days ago
Danbury police say a 14-year-old boy from Nigeria has drowned while swimming in a private lake in the city. ...

Source: www.voanews.com --- 5 days ago
Government bows to pressure from groups, ethnic leaders from oil-producing Niger Delta to suspend indefinitely summit aimed at halting attacks on petroleum industry ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 4 days ago
IT Web Jul 21 2008 8:04AM GMT ...

Source: www.newsisfree.com --- 4 days ago
Ekiti set for technical education revolution... approves N103m for scholarship awards Sulaimon Olanrewaju, Lagos [in Nigerian Tribune: Education ] ...

Source: allafrica.com --- 4 days ago
Though the Athletics Federation of Nigeria is still battling belatedly to have the women 4x100m relay team reinstalled into the top 16 list of nations for the Beijing 2008 Olympics, events that led to Nigeria's ouster continues to generate debate among athletics buffs. ...

Source: allafrica.com --- 4 days ago
The flooding which ravaged almost all parts of Borno state last year, killing over 10 persons, was a natural disaster that occurred in virtually every state in the country. Whereas expectations were high that state governments would have adopted measures to prevent flooding this year, that appears not to be the case in Borno state as, already, some parts of Maiduguri, the capital, are being confronted with yet another threat of impending flood disaster. ...

Source: allafrica.com --- 4 days ago
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has said he does not recognise the June 27 run-off in Zimbabwe in which the country's President Robert Mugabe stood as the only candidate and was returned to power. ...

Source: allafrica.com --- 4 days ago
What started as an inspiring event at the weekend at the National Stadium in Abuja ended in shameful and controversial manner. ...

Source: allafrica.com --- 4 days ago
How can the impact of climate change be mitigated? This is the question stakeholders converged on Sokoto to consider at an Information and Policy Advocacy Session convened by the Heinrich Boll Foundation, Nigeria in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Environment. ...

Source: www.resourceshelf.com --- 4 days ago
LC’s FRD Updates Nigeria Country Profile 23 pages; PDF. Source: LC FRD ...

Source: en.afrik.com --- 5 days ago
Conciliation summit over Delta region of Nigeria postponed. ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 5 days ago
+ ] (Adds details, background) ABUJA, July 20 (Reuters) - Nigeria's main militant group in the oil-rich Niger Delta said on Sunday it would seek the release of two German construction workers kidn... ...

Source: apb.directionsmag.com --- 4 days ago
Stakeholders have announced support for a digital map and enterprise GIS. The President of Nigerian Institution Surveyors, Dr. Sola Atilola supports the plan noting its key to development. However he didn't offer a specific return on investment. The project has the following components; Geodetic Control and Digital Aerial Photo Acquisition; Determination of Geoid Model and establishment of Continuous Operating Reference Station and Orthophoto, Contour Lines and Digital (vector) Mapping; GIS Database and Enterprise GIS; Bathymetry Survey of Lagos lagoons and creeks; supply of equipment and training and public enlightenment/education. - PunchNG ...

Source: allafrica.com --- 5 days ago
NIGERIANS may be in for endless wait for the amelioration of the pains of the rising cost of food in the country in response to global food crisis, as some state governments officials now sell allocations from strategic grains reserve to a cartel of commodity traders, instead of releasing same to the populace. ...

Source: www.insideworld.com --- 5 days ago
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Source: www.modernghana.com --- 4 days ago
The Greater Accra Amateur Boxing team churned out of a classy performance to overcome Joint Association Boxers (JAB) of Nigeria, winning six out of the seven bouts in a one-day tournament last Friday. The bouts which set the Prisons Canteen alive saw Raphael Mensah emerging Ghana's only casualty as he lost by a majority decision to Nigeria's ... ...