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Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The Nigerian military says the oil-rich Niger Delta has returned to normal after years of attacks that crippled the country's oil industry and created widespread insecurity.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Spain has released 3 million euros (4.5 million U.S. dollars) to support a joint program for "childhood, nutrition and food security" in Niger, the government announced. The financial aid, which was signed on Wednesday in the Niger capital Niamey, is one of the programs being supported by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). "These funds are expected to give better results...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The House of Representatives yesterday expressed displeasure at the budget performance of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, even as it stated that the ministry has so far not been able to justify the reasons why it was created.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A miffed House of Representatives yesterday described the Minister of Niger Delta, Mr. Ufot Ekaette as a failure and promptly dismissed as a fraud, his report on contracts paid for, consultancy payments and the percentage of work completed on projects in the Niger Delta region
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The European Union (EU) is to undertake 1,200 micro projects worth over N9 billion in nine Niger Delta States across the country under its Micro Project Programme (MPP9).
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Following the success of amnesty programme in the Niger Delta region, a firm, Dag Group Germany/United Kingdom, said it has concluded arrangement to partner with the Federal Government with a view to investing $30 billion on human and infrastructural development in the region.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa (OC) would like to congratulate the three teams that qualified last night for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa next year.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The constitutional crisis rocking the tiny republic of Niger is yet to be over, as three former prime ministers of the West African country at the weekend met with the chief mediator in the conflict, and Nigeria's former head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar in Abuja behind closed doors.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
THE Federal Government has been urged to relocate the headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to any state in the Niger Delta region where the nation's oil economy is based.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The first Vice President of the South Africa-based Pan African Parliament, Bethel Amadi, expressed to Nigerian President Umaru Yar’adua the support of the continental House to the decisions of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regarding the political situations in Guinea Conakry and Niger Republic. Vice President Amadi was paying a courtesy call to [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
In what seemed like a prophetic haze, Wole Solyinka, black Africa's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature once declared - "I consider that Nigeria is on the verge, on the brink of a massive implosion that will make what's happening in the Sudan child's play. We know there are movements for secession in this country. We know that everybody is preparing for the contingency of breaking up....
Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The mediator appointed by the West African regional bloc ECOWAS has been meeting with a coalition of Niger's opposition and civil society groups in Abuja in a bid to find a solution to the West African country's constitutional crisis.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
High school students in the Niger capital, Niamey, learned to put HIV/AIDS and reproductive health in a broader context during a recent essay contest.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
A 41-member opposition delegation from Niger arrived in Nigeria on Wednesday to meet Abdulsalami Abubakar, the mediator of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in the Niger crisis. The delegation is led by Mahmadou Issoufu, the president of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS), the main opposition party, the News Agency of Nigeria reported on Thursday. An ECOWAS official...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
An ex-militant leader in Bayelsa State, popularly called Commander Area has charged the state government to implement more developmental projects in Niger Delta communities in order to make the people have a sense of belonging.
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