Nigeria’s Uche Nwofor came on as a substitute and scored twice in the 5-2 win over Croatia Nigeria scored five goals for the second match in a row at the Under-20 World Cup in Colombia as they beat Croatia 5-2 on Wednesday. The result means the Flying Eagles are the first African side to guarantee [...]
GuardianShell Oil has accepted full liability for TWO giant oil spills in Nigeria, and now they’re looking at a bill of hundreds of millions of dollars. The spills happened in 2008 and they affected 69,000 people in the community in the Ogoniland region of Nigeria. This really is a very sad story because the creeks [...]
British Officials Examining Authenticity of Nigerian Hostage Video VOA News British authorities are checking the authenticity of a video claiming to show a British and Italian man kidnapped in May in Nigeria. Britain’s Foreign Office said Thursday officials are urgently examining the video, in which two men claim to have been kidnapped by al-Qaida. The [...]
Chevron Corp. (CVX), the world’s fourth- largest energy company, said its Nigerian Escravos gas-to- liquids plant is more than 70 percent complete and on course to start production in 2013. The facility, which will refine natural gas to produce 33,000 barrels a day of fuels including diesel, is set “to be completed at the end [...]
Romoke W. Ahmad 3 August 2011 The Minister of Youth Development, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, has called on Nigerian youths to be selfless, enterprising and determined in whatever they are doing. He gave the advice yesterday in Abuja while congratulating Miss Karen Igho for emerging the joint winner of the Big Brother Africa show sponsored by [...]
(AP) – 8 minutes ago LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian police say 14 people were killed when a bus ran over them after their bus was robbed on its way to the capital. Police spokesman Ajayi Okasanmi said Wednesday that robbers stopped the overnight bus early Tuesday and made passengers disembark and lie down on [...]
THE DAY REPLAYED – There is no denying that goals were in short supply over the first couple of days of the FIFA U-20 World Cup Colombia 2011. Matchday 3 helped raise the goal average, however, with Nigeria putting five past Guatemala and Spain inflicting a heavy defeat on Costa Rica. It had been a [...]
Bello Muhammad Zaki 1 August 2011 When President Obama told the United States Congress early January that his government would reach its legal borrowing limit by the end of March or latest by May 16, there was a need for members of the legislative houses to raise the government’s debt ceiling to avoid it defaulting [...]
Revolution imminent in Nigeria –Braithwaite Dr Tunji Braithwaite, a lawyer and Right Activist and former Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Advance Party, (NAP). In an interview with select journalists in Lagos, the elderstatesman, said Nigeria will never make progress until there is a restructuring of the polity. NDUBUISI ORJI who was there brings the excerpts:Monday, [...]
By UDEME CLEMENT,ANALYSIS The Nigerian banking industry is poised for greater productivity this fiscal year as nine banks made list of top 1,000 World Banks ranking and top 25 banks in Africa. This is a clear indication that the on-going reforms and new monetary policies mapped out by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to [...]
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Gryphon Minerals (GRY) Broker Calls Credit Suisse – BUY Deutsche – BUY RBC – BUY RBS Morgans – BUY Argonaut – BUY Eagle Research – BUY Alpha Broking – BUY Chart: Share price over the year to 04/08/2011 versus ASX200 (XJO) Gryphon Minerals (GRY), a West African focussed Gold exploration company with projects [...]
Health: Global Fund against HIV-AIDS resumes activities in Mauritania
Global Fund against HIV-AIDS – The Global Fund for the Fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will resume activities in Mauritania after ‘a successful negotiation between the government and its partners,’ according to a statement from the Mauritanian ministry of Health. The resumption of funding will enable the country receive substantial resources estimated at about [...]
Mauritanian Football Federation elects new president
2011-08-01 Mauritanian football fans can look forward to new leadership in the sport as the country looks to rebuild its programme. By Mohamed Foily Samba Vall for Magharebia in Nouakchott – 01/08/11 [Mohamed Foily] For the first time in its history, Mauritania’s football federation held a competitive election for new leadership. The Mauritanian Football Federation [...]
Zimbabwe’s image problem: Facebook caning linked to human rights abuse
Zimbabwe clearly has an image problem. When we posted a note on Monday about the caning sentence for a Chiredzi boy who ‘slandered’ a local woman on Facebook, we sincerely thought two cane strokes was not a big deal. Really. For us the important thing was that someone had managed to get some kind of [...]
Kicked out of Zimbabwe, he’s now a top sportsman
I think with playing sport at an elite level comes a responsibility Pundits have touted him as a future Wallabies captain, which would be welcomed by Australian rugby fans who have delighted in his unfulfilled Springboks dream MELBOURNE — A child of evicted Zimbabwean farmers, David Pocock arrived in Australia with a few suitcases and [...]
Mugabe praises coalition government with rivals
Mugabe, who turns 88 on Tuesday, has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, but has shared power with Tsvangirai’s rival Movement for Democratic Change since 2009 under a coalition after violent and disputed elections. Despite the agreement, Mugabe and Tsvangirai have continued to fight over government posts and policy, including Mugabe’s drive to [...]