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Lawmakers to Consider Making VP Acting Leader (9 Feb 10)
National Assembly meets Tuesday in a session that will consider a request by state governors to make the vice president the country's acting leader  More...

Anxiety mounts as Yar’Adua’s mother, others move to S/Arabia (9 Feb 10)
The aged mother of ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has been moved to Saudi Arabia to be at his bedside  More...

Kidnappings raise fears of fresh violence (9 Feb 10)
Fresh attacks on oil pipelines and a spate of new kidnappings have heightened fears that a peace deal in southern Nigeria's oil war has lost momentum  More...

Militant group 'disables' Shell pipeline (9 Feb 10)
A Nigerian militant group, the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), said Sunday it had "successfully disabled" a major oil pipeline operated by Shell   More...

Anambra vote shows little progress on reforms (9 Feb 10)
A chaotic election in a volatile Nigerian state has highlighted the dire need for electoral reforms  More...

 


 

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Lies, politics and Nigeria's great rumour mill

There is only one industry in Nigeria which is completely immune to the vagaries of the national economy and the well-oiled machine of the government security and intelligence services. It is big, it is strong, it never sleeps and it is unimaginably creative - but it is invisible. I am talking of the Nigerian rumour mill.

Unbridled imports crippling Nigeria

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Mud, gin and machineguns

After years as a major gang leader in the Niger Delta, Tom had accepted a presidential offer of amnesty and was due at a disarmament ceremony in the oil hub of Port Harcourt. But...

The man who would tame lagos

The slumscapes of Lagos are a powerful portent of the extremes of ­poverty and overcrowding to come as the trend for rapid urbanisation continues across the developing world. Nigeria’s commercial capital will be the third-largest city on the planet by 2015 after Tokyo and Mumbai, according to UN projections

incident and abduction database

Brand new layout updated: 13.10.09. Click here to view our 2009 database. Also available are the full archived details of 2006/07/08. We continue to monitor the who's where's why's and how many's of the ongoing trend of militant attacks and hostage taking in Nigeria.

a 2007 hostage relives his ordeal

Larry Plake was just outside the control tower on his way to bed aboard the Cheyenne, an oil barge anchored six miles off the coast, when he heard the shots. A veteran rig worker for Global Industries, Plake, a Texan, had just finished his evening shift and was in a bad mood

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