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CAN 2008: Fresh fears about Super Eagles’ camping site
There are fears that Malaga, Spain, the chosen site for the final preparations of Nigeria's Super Eagles for the forthcoming Nations Cup, may be...
Publicity, potent weapon of anti-corruption — British diplomat
Immediate past British High Commissioner to Nigeria Richard Gozney, has identified publicity as the strongest weapon in the fight agains t corruption in the...
CAN 2008 : Nigeria wants its footballers in time…
The Nigerian Football Association (NFA) has asked foreign clubs to release Nigerian players selected to represent the country during the 2008 African Cup of...
Nigeria: Gas flaring wrecking Delta communities
Civil society groups in the Niger Delta region have warned that the government is destroying communities’ health and Nigeria’s environment by flouting laws against...
Nigeria: Abuja’s splendid centre surrounded by urban blight
Patience Israel, a 20-year-old hairdresser, lived in a decent home in Karimo, a squatter settlement near Nigeria's political capital, until it was demolished in...
Bakassi – where Cameroon is already in control
Some 10 minutes after leaving the jetty in the Nigerian border village of Ikang, our speedboat pulls up to a muddy bank now under...
MEND claims responsibility for Shell pipeline attack
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack on a pipeline supplying crude oil to Shell's...
No clues yet to deadly attack on Cameroonian troops
Nigerian and Cameroonian officials met Thursday but no clues have yet been found to the attack that killed 21 Cameroonian soldiers in the Bakassi...
5 ex-Nigerian state governors ‘to return stolen 50b naira’
Five former state governors in Nigeria have agreed to return a total of 50 billion naira in looted public funds, so they will not...
Nigeria: Government hits tobacco companies with whopping law suit
The Nigerian federal government filed a suit in the High Court of Abuja on Tuesday against tobacco companies British-American Tobacco, Philip Morris International, and...
Biafra separatist leader free and defiant
The jailed leader of a separatist movement in the south-east of Nigeria known formerly as Biafra was released from detention at the end of...
Tutu named into board of Nigerian University
South African Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu has been named into the Board of Trustees of the American University of Nigeria (AUN), a statement from...
Kidnapped MP’s father freed in Nigeria
The kidnapped 70-year-old father of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly (parliament) in Nigeria's southern Rivers state has been freed unharmed by...
US explains presence in Gulf of Guinea
The United States has explained that its presence in the Gulf of Guinea is aimed at protecting an area regarded as one of the...
Mass burial for victims of Lagos oil pipeline fire
The Lagos State government has started on-the-scene mass burial of victims of Friday's fuel pipeline explosion, which claimed some 200 lives at Inegbe beach...