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latest news and Security

Fuel price increase: Prepare for battle, NLC tells FG (19 Aug 08)
NLC said it would battle the move to increase fuel price as it did before to show its commitment to the welfare of Nigerian workers and the masses.  More...

Shell signs $10m contract with Nigerian firm (19 Aug 08)
The one-year contract for maintenance is the first time a Nigerian company will undertake a project of this magnitude  More...

Oil firms set to commence exploration in Lagos (19 Aug 08)
No fewer than six oil companies have concluded plans to commence exploration of the black gold  More...

N’Delta Killings: Chevron’s Trial Begins Sept in US (19 Aug 08)
...after exhausting all appeals meant to stop the company from being tried for the alleged murder of villagers in the Niger Delta region in two separate incidents between 1998 and 1999  More...

Again, JTF Destroys Illegal Refineries (19 Aug 08)
The war on illegal oil refineries in the Niger-Delta is intensifying, with about 120 of such refineries destroyed in the last couple of days  More...

 


 

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featured articles

War of the Cult Groups

Militants recently re-enacted the ugly incidence of wanton killing and destruction of properties in Port-Harcourt and its environs. The scenario was reminiscent of what took place in the state almost one year ago

Opulence and Chaos Meet in an African Boomtown

The governor’s son sits hunched at the bar, contemplating his nearly empty bottle of Hennessy. On the dance floor, the airline director’s daughter sways back and forth to a hip-hop beat.... more...

Underground sex in the conservative north

Idris is a pimp and makes no bones about it. Because of the way the sex industry works in Nigeria's northern city of Kano, he and the women he pimps have a co-dependant relationship – they exploit each other.

 

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incident and abduction database

Updated: 19.08.08. Click here to read our 2008 database. Also available are the full archived details of 2006 and 2007. 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.

Reverse brain drain as ambitious Nigerians come home

From cocktails with hip-hop stars to sushi with smooth-suited bankers, it's no wonder Nigerians moving back after decades in New York or London feel right at home among the high-rolling elite of Lagos

my big nollywood break - busted

After bit parts in a few Nollywood movies, our narrator makes the big time -- a Nigerian soap opera. But alas, things don't go as planned.

Part 5 of 5.

black gold

This should be paradise. A land of plenty. The finest schools and hospitals, gleaming infrastructure that shames the West.

A place where wealth literally oozes out of the marshy undergrowth. More...

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