20110121
TradeInvest

Endemic budget deficits and the inefficient management of large infrastructure projects and services within the public sector are a few of the reasons why the traditional procurement method of governments funding infrastructure projects through fiscal budgets is increasingly considered unviable.

20110121


Abuja — The on-going voter registration exercise in the country would be extended beyond the stipulated two weeks' duration if many eligible voters are not registered by the end of next week, both President Goodluck Jonathan and Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] chairman Professor Attahiru Jega said at separate occasions in Abuja yesterday.

20110120
xinhua
ABUJA, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the transparency exhibited in the party's National Convention would be replicated in the April general elections.

20110118
africanews

The first edition of the annual documentary film Festival known as iRepresent International Documentary Film Festival is scheduled to begin on the 20th-23rd of January in Nigeria's commercial nerve-centre of Lagos.

20110117
reuters

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Three people were killed in central Nigeria on Monday when soldiers opened fire to quell a fight between Christian and Muslim youths over voter registration for April elections, police and witnesses said.

20110117
xinhua

NIAMEY, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Mamadou Tandja, the Nigerien president deposed in a military coup in February 2010, was moved to a prison close to the capital Niamey on Sunday, two weeks before the planned presidential and legislative elections on Jan. 31, according to official sources.

20110116
reuters

OTUOKE, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria began the mammoth task of registering an estimated 70 million voters on Saturday, a process which will be key to ensuring nationwide elections in April are more credible than in the past.

20110116
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian opposition party on Sunday selected Ibrahim Shekarau, governor of the northern state of Kano, as its candidate to run against President Goodluck Jonathan in April elections.

20110115
Independent (Lagos)

President Goodluck Jonathan and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar have moved into the second stanza of their individual political calculations; the management of the after effect of Thursday's National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sunday Independent has learnt.

20110115
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Lagos — Despite some progress, Nigeria is lagging behind its peers in reducing deaths among children under five. The mortality rate remains worryingly high for newborn infants - 700 children less than 28 days old die in the country every day.

20110115
This Day

Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu yesterday emerged as the presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria at the party's special convention held in Lagos.

20110114
Vanguard

Malam Nuhu Ribadu, former chief of Nigeria's anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has emerged the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) presidential candidate. All the delegates answered yes in a voice vote to determine their support for Ribadu during the the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) anational convention in Lagos today.

20110115
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan won a decisive victory in ruling party primaries on Friday, including in key states in the mostly Muslim north, but his main rival's camp refused to accept the result.

20110111
xinhua

ABIDJAN, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo left Cote d'Ivoire early Monday after two days of mediation as incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo still refused to cede power since the Nov. 28 presidential vote.

20110111
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - A panel from Nigeria's ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) screened three presidential hopefuls on Tuesday ahead of primaries this week which are set to be the most fiercely contested for more than a decade.

20110110
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed an amended constitution on Monday, cementing the legal framework for presidential, parliamentary and state governorship elections in April.

20110110
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian court on Monday threw out a suit brought by three members of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) to try to stop President Goodluck Jonathan from contesting primaries on Thursday.

20110108
This Day

Christian youths attacked a car full of Muslims returning from a wedding in Jos, Plateau State, seven people inside the vehicle and sparking retaliatory violence that left one other person dead, AP has reported, quoting a Muslim lawyer.

20110108
africanews

Former Governor of Nigeria's Delta State and candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan was declared winner of the state governorship re-run election held on Thursday.

20110107
africanews

Media reports from the US state that former Nigeria international, Uche Okafor, was found dead at his Dallas, Texas home in the United States of America (USA) early Thursday. Ben Iroha, a former Nigerian team-mate of Uche between 1990 and 1994, told SuperSport.com that he received the shock news via a telephone conversation that the 43-year-old has died.