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Nigeria to Charge Dick Cheney in Pipeline Bribery Case

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Business Week - By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo - Dec. 02 (News) - Nigeria will file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five foreign companies including Halliburton Co. over a $180 million bribery scandal, a prosecutor at the anti-graft agency said.

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Nigeria 'warned about Abuja attack'

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By David Batty - Oct. 02 (News) - Questions have been raised about how much the Nigerian authorities knew about a militant bomb attack that killed 12 people in the capital, Abuja.

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Nigeria bomb toll rises: govt admits it was warned

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Camillus Eboh - Oct. 02 (News) - The death toll from car bombs that exploded near a parade marking Nigeria's 50th anniversary of independence rose to 12 on Saturday and authorities admitted they had been warned of the attack.

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Ex-Militant Leader Arrested in Nigeria Bombings

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Adam Nossiter - Oct. 02 (News) - A day after car bombs ripped through Nigeria’s independence day celebrations in the capital, Abuja, killing at least 12 people, a former senior leader of the militant group that claimed responsibility has been arrested, Nigerian officials said Saturday.

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The World’s Ongoing Ecological Disasters

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Joshua E. Keating - Jul. 16 (Special Report) - ... many of the world's greatest environmental catastrophes continue, with no end in sight...... The Deepwater Horizon incident may have been the worst oil spill in U.S. history, but it pales in comparison to the ongoing catastrophe that has afflicted Nigeria's Niger River Delta over the last five decades. As many as 546 million gallons of oil are believed to have spilled since oil exploration began in this region -- the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez spill every year. There are around 2,000 official spill sites in the region, some of them decades old.

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Secret Erik Prince/Blackwater Tape Exposed

Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Jeremy Scahill - May. 03 (Investigative Report) - Now we know why Erik Prince won't allow the media into his speeches. After all, he's admitting to war crimes - and also to working in countries the U.S. government denies using his company. Yoo hoo, mainstream media!

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Nigeria's budget hopes for bullish oil production

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Apr. 22 (News Report) - Nigeria's acting president has approved a budget that increases spending by about 50 percent, riding on the bullish hopes a truce with militants in the oil-rich nation will hold and allow crude production to increase.

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Nigeria's Late Passage of 2010 Budget Stirs Hardship in Benin Republic

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

AllAfrica - By Chioma Umeha18 April 2010 - Apr. 20 (News Report) - Prior to the global crisis, cotton was Benin Republic's highest foreign exchange earner before the seaport became the premier commercial centre. Bereft of mineral deposits like crude oil, steel, gold or bauxite, Benin had for decades to totter along on miserable state budgets that kept some of its most deserving civil servants in queue for a motorcycle loan. But this scenario changed, and pretty well too, when Benin woke up and realised it can re-engineer its economy. It did not only look inward, it looked across the border at its giant neighbour, Nigeria with huge resources but catalogue of woes and decided to take advantage of it. Drawing from the experience of others which shows that the best way to do business with Nigerians is sell to them what they already have; the French-speaking country had no problem in seizing the opportunity.

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The rains, roads and the budget

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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BBC News - Equatorial Guinea jails Nigerians for palace attack

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 06 (News) - A court in Equatorial Guinea has sentenced seven Nigerians each to 12 years in prison for an attack on the presidential palace in February 2009.

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No end to Nigeria cycle of violence

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Caroline Duffield - Mar. 12 (News) - The BBC's Caroline Duffield reports on the continued tension between rival communities in the Nigerian city of Jos after the recent slaughter of at least 100 people.

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50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Ed Kashi - Mar. 10 (Special Report) - Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta by the photojournalist Ed Kashi documents the consequences of fifty years of oil extraction in the Niger delta.

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Airline bomb suspect arrives in court

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Daniel Nasaw - Jan. 09 (News Report) - The alleged Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in federal court today, opening a case that has earned Barack Obama criticism from conservatives who say the suspected terrorist should be treated as an enemy combatant. The 23-year-old Nigerian faces several criminal counts related to his Christmas Day attempt to bring down a Northwest airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.

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Things to remember about the Nigerian terror suspect

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Elizabeth Dickinson - Dec. 27 (News Analysis) - if the suspect does indeed come from a family of means, as his residence in London suggests (forgive a generalization, but anyone who is anyone in Nigeria has got a house in London), it says much about where the real terror "threat" is (and is not) coming from in Nigeria. Security analysts have been worrying about Nigeria since the Sept 11. attacks -- fearing that this about half-Muslim country of 140 million people would be a potential host to extremists. But at the end of the day, something that I've learned about Nigeria is that it takes money and connections to get things done. Just think back to the violence earlier this summer by the Boko Haram sect. The mostly-impoverished members of the group raised hell in the local context ... but that was it. Taking "jihad" international from Nigeria is still a long ways and a lot of financing off (if it is on the way at all).

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In Nigeria, Sharia Fails to Deliver

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Karin Brulliard - Aug. 12 (Special Report) - Vows of Accountability, Equity Under Moderate Islamic Law Are Unmet

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KBR Fined in Nigeria Bribery Case

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Financial Times - By Joanna Chung - Feb. 12 (News Report) - Kellogg, Brown & Root, the engineering, construction, and services company, and its former parent, Halliburton, have agreed to pay a combined $579 million to settle US criminal and civil allegations that KBR bribed Nigerian government officials to obtain contracts.

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Shell to pump 173,000 bpd in Nigeria after fixing oil pipeline leak

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:54:35 -0700

Agence France-Presse - Aug. 11 (News Report) - Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell has said that it was resuming 173,000 barrels per day of crude output after repairing a pipeline leak in southern Nigeria.

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