20101128
reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's anti-corruption police have raided the offices of U.S. firm Halliburton and arrested 12 people in a bribery case involving former Halliburton unit KBR Inc, a spokesman said on Saturday.

20101123
Vanguard

Abuja — FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar was chosen yesterday as the choice of the Northern political establishment to challenge President Goodluck Jonathan for the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

20101122
africanews

Media workers under the Nigeria Union of Journalist, NUJ and the Radio , Television and Theatre Workers Union, RATTAWU on Monday began a three day warning strike aimed at forcing the federal government to implement a new media salary structure for media workers under its employ.

20101119
Daily Trust

Oil giant Shell said 98 per cent of oil spilled in the Niger Delta is caused by theft and attack on oil facilities by the members of the oil host communities.

20101119
Vanguard

Warri — Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, John Togo, Friday, gave four conditions for the cessation of hostilities by his group.

20101118
africanews

A number of striking doctors in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos might not resume at the hospitals when their current strike action is eventually called off. This is because the doctors who have been on strike since August this year are said to be getting better work offers from Saudi Arabia.

20101113
reuters

YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's military threatened on Saturday to carry out raids against what it said were camps of criminal gangs in the creeks of the oil-producing Niger Delta, and told civilians in the vicinity to leave.

20101113
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria will report Iran to the U.N. Security Council if it finds any evidence that an illegal arms shipment it seized two weeks ago violated U.N. sanctions, Nigerian Foreign Minister Odein Ajumogobia said on Friday.

20101113
africanews

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Southern Nigeria said foreign hostages kidnapped from an oil rig this week were in good health but would be in its custody "for a while."

20101109
This Day

Abuja — The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) met with President Goodluck Jonathan last night but the meeting failed to reach a compromise to stop the warning strike that begins today.

20101109
africanews

A Federal High Court in Lagos, South West Nigeria ruled that the recent amendments made on the 1999 Constitution by the National Assembly cannot become law and operational without the assent of the President. Justice Okechukwu Okeke consequently declared the 2010 Constitution Amendment Act null and void.

20101105
vanguard

A volcanic eruption has occurred at the mountainous Mkomon district of Kwande Local government of Benue State with one person feared dead while properties worth millions of Naira have also been destroyed.

20101105
africanews

Nigeria has deported hundreds of immigrants from northern Nigeria back to neighbouring countries as part of a security crackdown on a radical Islamic sect, a senior immigration official said on Thursday.

20101101
Leadership

Abuja — Severe flooding in July-October could result in food crisis in Sokoto, Jigawa and Kebbi states, says a Famine Early Warning Systems Network report entitled: Nigeria Food Security Outlook, October 2010 to March 2011, monitored yesterday by LEADERSHIP.

20101103
Daily Trust

Ogun State governor Otumba Gbenga Daniel, who was at the weekend prematurely named the next chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum [NGF] by a group of governors loyal to President Goodluck Jonathan, may be edged out by Gombe State governor Muhammad Danjuma Goje as members of the forum meet in Abuja today to elect a chairman.

20101030
africanews

Militants in Nigeria's Niger Delta region blew up two pipelines belonging to the Nigeria Agip Oil Company in Bayelsa State in the early hours of Saturday, reportedly forcing a shut of the 60,000 of crude oil per day.

20101025
reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - Cholera has killed more than 1,500 people in Nigeria since January in one of the worst outbreaks in years, with heavy rains spreading the disease particularly in poor northern states, the United Nations said on Monday.

20101025
africanews

Suspected Islamist sect members on Sunday attacked a police station in a remote part of Yobe state, resulting in a gun battle with officers, authorities said, in the latest such incident in recent months.

20101025
africanews

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria has released a list of 100 persons with high profile cases to be barred from contesting any position in the 2011 elections. Media reports say the advisory list include 40 prominent politicians.

20101024
This Day

Lagos — At least 40 prominent politicians are on the advisory list containing over 100 persons with high profile cases whom the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said should be barred from contesting for elective offices in 2011.