South African TV Channel Crew Member Released In Nigeria
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(RTTNews) - Nigerian gunmen have released a South African sound engineer they kidnapped in the restive Niger Delta oil region a week ago, reports said. ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
The People's Story of Oil in the Niger Delta
The Media Co-op (blog)
I was hired by an American non-profit organization to film this group of Americans going to help out [in the Niger Delta by building a library] and it all ...
Curse of the Black GoldTelegraph.co.uk
Decline in oil productionDaily Sun
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Times of Nigeria
FACTBOX-Key risks to watch in Nigeria
Reuters India
... along a major ethnic fault line, and the risk of fresh unrest in the oil-producing Niger Delta are clouding an otherwise bright investment outlook. ...
Nigeria's acting leader must move quickly to maintain calmISI - Emerging Markets (subscription)
N'Delta leader backs AkunyiliThe Punch
Akunyili: N-Delta youths carpet lawmakersVanguard
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NDDC, NIW train 3000 welders
Vanguard
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and the Nigerian Institute of Welding, NIW, have partnered to train over 3000 competent welders ...

Nigeria: Why FG Embarked On N19 Billion Shoreline Project
AllAfrica.com
Minister of Environment Mr. John Odey has said that the proposed dredging of the creeks and channels in the Niger Delta without environmental Impact ...

A polio vaccination campaign in the violence-wracked central Nigerian city of Jos has been delayed until 13 March due to the violence and an on-going health worker strike, aid workers said.

The United Nations human rights chief said today she was appalled by the latest "massacre" of hundreds of villagers in northern Nigeria, and called for authorities to tackle the underlying causes of the tension in the region.

The Plateau State police command yesterday said the early morning attack on three villages in Jos South Local Government on Sunday was a reprisal by some Fulani people who lost their tribesmen and cattle in the January crisis.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Monday on Nigeria to find and punish those responsible for the killings of more than 500 Christians in a wave of sectarian slaughter.

An Abuja Federal High Court will today hear one of the suits filed against persons who allegedly participated in the Jos mayhem which claimed several lives on January 17.

A man whom US prosecutors say received bomb-making training in Somalia from the Islamist militant group Al Shabaab has been brought to New York to face charges, the US Attorney's office said yesterday.

No fewer than 80,000 Nigerian children are prone to die annually from Vitamin A deficiency related ailments if concerted efforts are not made to control and prevent the deficiency amongst growing children in the country.

"Though tribe and tongue may differ, in brotherhood we stand!" That line from the country's first anthem as a Republic has for long remained an ideal.

There is a cliché that says there is no free lunch in Freetown. However, for expectant mothers and children under-five in Ondo State, this is the best of times as they are enjoying free healthcare. Courtesy of a comprehensive health package underlined by the trail-blazing 'Abiye' philosophy, Governor Olusegun Mimiko has underwritten all medical expenses for them.

It was all wailing and weeping yesterday in Dogo-Na-Hawa village in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State as bodies of over 387 people killed last Sunday in the resurgence of violence in the area were given mass burial.

National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) said it is working with 40 local government areas in the country to raise at least N12 billion for micro financing to the poor under its Village Solutions programme.

The heinous, cowardly and genocidal attacks by armed men on three villages near Jos, Plateau State in the early hours of last Sunday was an outrage, a calculated attack on efforts to consolidate a fragile peace in crisis-torn Plateau State and a most despicable onslaught on human life, including the lives of women, children and the aged. Estimates of casualties from Sunday's episode already include hundreds killed and many hundreds wounded.

More than 200 million people in Africa are malnourished and the continent requires $620 billion to feed its people in the next 40 years, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi said yesterday.

DR. Ibrahim Yakubu Lame, Minister of Police Affairs, became more famous last week when he spent a lot of time blaming the police for the country's poor security. He provided no statistics, other than talking about rising crime rate.

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, Monday, called for criminal proceedings against the First Lady, Turai, for kidnapping and falsely imprisoning ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua.