Nigeria News

Presidents Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, and Olusegun Obasanjo clap during celebrations on Brazil's Independence Day, yesterday in Brasilia.4

AS Nigerians continue to hail the new pension reform bill recently passed by the National Assembly, experts say the reform would rejuvenate the comatose real sector of the economy which comprises manufacturing, ...4.2

We take so much pride in the ABU label as compared to, for instance the - Ajebota' label normally ... This logic is sustained by the fact that if for instance I had been born in America or in the United Kingdom, I would have claimed their citizenship by birth.4

The New Nigerian Development Company ,Kaduna has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with an international oil company, Energem Petroleum Corporation, for immediate commencement of oil and gas exploration ...4

The African Union officially extended the invitation to the Sudanese government and the two main rebel movements in Darfur to resume negotiations in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, in the mid of this month.3.1

Human beings are ratiocinative creatures. It, therefore, confounds one that they see problems and ... The British made similar arrangements with the Sultan of Sokoto and his emirs (Sultan is Turkish for chief and Emir is Arabic for the German word, chief) of the Northern part of what is now called Nigeria and formed the protectorate of Northern ...4

Director General of the regulatory body, Festus Ugwu, disclosed this at the weekend in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, at an interactive session with maritime stakeholders.4

They have started pushing Vice President Atiku Abubakar again. It is this type of push that has landed him at this very sorry post.4

US federal agents seized a letter which had apparently been sent by Louisiana congressman William Jefferson in a raid on Nigeria's Vice President Atiku Abubakar's Maryland home last month, a Nigerian spokesman ...2.9

In 2000 World leaders met and crafted the Millennium Development Goals with the aim of finding a permanent solution to poverty in the world.4

With the full privatisation of NITEL scheduled for this month, the die is cast for bidders for the ... Today, Vanguard takes a rundown of the bidders for NITEL and the potentials which they hold for the company Vodacom/Telkom Vodacom is a pan-African cellular communications company providing GSM service to millions of customers in South Africa, ...4

I do not wholly accept the cliche that "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" any more than I agree that "money is the root of all evil". In the latter dictum, the key definitive word missing ...4

In the US, George Bush Snr and Bill Clinton team up again to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina When the Tsunami hit last year and devastated huge areas of South East Asia, former US Presidents George ...2.7

Sifax Nigeria Ltd and three others have emerged the preferred bidders for the Tin Can Island Terminals' concession.4

WHAT is happening to construction work at the Power Holding Company of Nigeria , formerly NEPA 133/33KV Sub-Station project at Amukpe-Sapele in Delta State? The contract for the electricity step-down was first ...4

Heavily armed gunmen wearing ski masks fatally shot five people and injured two inside a bar on Honduras' Atlantic coast.

The parley between the Federal Government and the Nigeria Labour Congress over the recent increase in fuel price ended abruptly yesterday in Abuja with the government delegation insisting that it had no mandate ...5.3

THE Federal Government is poised for a show down with the various ethnic militias/vigilance groups after vowing, yesterday, that it would no longer tolerate human rights abuses by such groups.2.7

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This decision comes on the heels of recurring raids by hoodlums in the market which came to a head with the brutalization of a press crew from the Nigerian Television Authority and vandalisation of their car ...4

It is at the annual conventions that WIC's officers and invited Igbo from Abuja and Igbo ... Senate President Ken Nnamani who felt insulted by an angry crowd blasted the organizers of the convention for hosting the convention at the basement of the Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.4

The Nigeria Labour Congress and its allies have resolved to commence series of nationwide mass protest in major cities and state capitals to mobilise Nigerians against what they described as"crisis of ...3

And the revised list of Ghanaian items that are outlawed from Nigerian markets, as at June 30, 2005, now includes water.

Confusion reigned at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport yesterday morning with the Kenya women's volleyball team threatening to boycott traveling for an African event owing to non payment of allowances.2.7

Worried by the increasing spate of bank robberies, especially in the last seven months, the Federal Government has sent a secret memo to the acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr.4

TEWA Onosanya is the Publisher of Exquisite Magazine, a lifestyle fashion and beauty magazine.4

A top Nigerian prisons official warned the government yesterday against freeing thousands of inmates kept for years behind bars without trial, saying it would be like releasing "poison" on to the streets.2.7

Secondly, there is no disguising the fact that the Nigerian side came up with the initiative themselves.4

"I didn't get disillusioned by the movie industry before I veered off towards the celebration of comedy.4

GUBERNATORIAL candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance in the 2003 governorship polls who was recently awarded victory by the Anambra State Election Petition Tribunal, Mr.4.8

To curb financial crimes, and achieve same-day clearing and settlement, the Central Bank of Nigeria yesterday in Abuja inaugurated six sub-committees of the National Committee on Payments Systems charged with ...5

AN American journalist approached me and said "are Nigerians that religious? Yekini didn't say any other thing other than God.4

Istanbul - Israel held its first public talks with Pakistan in Istanbul yesterday in a diplomatic breakthrough following its Gaza pullout.3.4

Prof. Don Ohadike, African history, passed away last Sunday at the age of 63. He was the director of the Africana Studies & Research Center, among many other prominent roles that he played at Cornell in his 16 ...

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commis-sion has started operations, following the confirmation by the Senate of the nominees for commissioners sent to the upper house by President Olusegun Obasanjo.4

We will start this exercise with a personal anecdote, which has a bearing on the issue we want to discus today.4

At least 33 people have died and hundreds have been hospitalised following an outbreak of cholera in the remote northwestern Nigerian state of Sokoto, officials said on Wednesday.1.5

Katsina State is set to con-cede five towns to Niger Republic as the Federal Government, through the National Boundary Commission, engages in a new demarcation exercise along Nigeria and Republic of Niger ...4