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Information Minister Dora Akunyili said he had been living outside Nigeria "for a while" and only returned on the eve of the attack.

It noted that access to technology was another vital issue for Nigeria which it did not want to see negatively affected by more patents.

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Ntiero was a player in Nigeria's Army Forces team and also at Calabar Rovers. He took over as the national team coach midway through 2006.

The company recently decided to put more focus on Africa, especially in Nigeria where it is trying to become a leader in selling generators.

Obama also denounced an attack near an army barracks in Abuja, Nigeria, which he said killed at least 20 people and wounded many more.

Foreign banks began to leave Nigeria after military rulers introduced a law in 1976 granting the state 60 per cent ownership.

He send regular messages spelling out his vision for Nigeria and responds to comments from his followers.

After wards , she said the violence in Nigeria cannot be blamed on the competition.

At least 20 people were killed and thousands displaced on Sunday by flooding in and around the city of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria.

Votes are being counted in Nigeria's parliamentary elections which had been postponed for a week because of a lack of readiness.

So far, investors seem to be giving Nigeria's banks the benefit of the doubt.

IT IS now more than a year since the clean-up of Nigeria's banking system began, after a credit boom that went bad.

This was exaggerated by one-off relief to Iraq and Nigeria, which boosted the 2005 total and began to drop out of the calculation in 2006.

The spokesman reminded travellers going to Nigeria and its neighbouring countries to ensure their polio vaccination are up-to-date.

Villain: Nigeria striker Yakubu Aiyegbeni's miss against South Korea in their final Group B game was one of the worst at a World Cup.

And I say that, if we come out of the first game well (Nigeria), it is going to be a barbarian encounter.

Currently, Nigeria, an Islamic extremist organization "Brocade Holy Land, " a statement, said the responsibility for the attack.

He said his kidnappers would only deal with the ship's owners and not the governments of Cameroon or Nigeria.

Even if Nigeria lowers polio cases, he said, the gains 'can't hold' without a broader health-care system, he said.

The Internet speed across the board in Nigeria is not great so we would be looking for a substitute for the Google mapping technology.

This has prompted the militants to demand a more extreme form of Islamist rule and for sharia to be extended to the whole of Nigeria.

Liberia's five-person delegation was held up in Nigeria for a week before the Polish Embassy there granted visas.

Once back in Nigeria, Obi stays, once again, in Lagos with his friend Joseph, trying to find a job and a place of his own.

I'm talking to my shipper in Dubai and he is trying to arrange someone to collect for me in china and send by air cargo to me in Nigeria.

Reports from Nigeria say at least five people have been killed in an attack on a bar in the northeastern city of Maiduguri.

Because international banks have imposed stricter controls, a lot more of it stays in Nigeria now than was the case a few years ago.

The system's defenders say zoning holds Nigeria together: ethnic strife, though less intense than it used to be, remains a danger.

Representatives of each of these countries attended the meeting in Geneva, together with Egypt, Nigeria and Niger.

Rumours that the president was critically ill and unable to return to the presidency have been swirling around Nigeria.

Hu said in his message that Yar'Adua was an outstanding leader who had devoted himself to Nigeria's development and national reconciliation.

With the world so close to killing polio, countries like Nigeria should make eradication a top priority, he said.

Though Nigeria's generals say they are ready to deploy a battalion in Mogadishu, it is unlikely to go, despite American urging.

The team, known as the HapMap consortium, includes scientists from Canada, China, Japan, Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Up to 100 people have been killed after a runaway truck ploughed into a crowded market in Nigeria.

Although Obi begins his life in Nigeria in an honest way, events do not go as he has planned.

Spain then took on Nigeria and Merida scored both goals in a 2-0 win to put his country in a strong position at the top of Group C.

Western embassies and security firms in Nigeria agree that the shift towards local victims takes the heat off them a bit.

Militants in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger delta have been tapping pipelines and illegally exporting crude for the best part of a decade.

At least 10 people have been killed in an upsurge of violence in Nigeria on the eve of Saturday's parliamentary elections.

The reinfection of central Africa did not come from Nigeria, which is the only endemic country in the region.

It is concerned enough to have sent Tom Schweich, the State Department's international drugs man, to Nigeria last month.

At least 19 people were killed in a reprisal attack on a village in Nigeria's north-western state of Zamfara.

Anti-fraud police in Nigeria have issued a list of more than 100 people who they say should not be allowed to run for political office.

He said accurate surveillance of bird flu outbreaks is crucial to global efforts to combat the virus. As an example, he pointed to Nigeria.

I remember vividly one instance that proved to me that the youths of Nigeria can achieve any positive goal they set their minds on.

He said accurate surveillance of bird flu outbreak is crucial to global efforts to combat the virus. As an example, he pointed to Nigeria.

Aid organizations sent in food aid, but much of it was also bought up by traders and diverted to markets in Nigeria.

Since the beginning of the year, Nigeria's Drug Law Enforcement Agency has made 234 similar arrests at this Lagos airport.

Turning to Nigeria, Muna described a complex country with a dynamic free press, able to correct itself politically.

Nigeria's Transitional Monitoring Group dispatched thousands of election observers around the country to watch the presidential poll.

Final preparations are taking place in Nigeria for Saturday's presidential election, the biggest such poll in Africa.

That group also extends to Venezuela, Nigeria, Angola, Canada, Brazil and a few of the central Asian republics.

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Nigeria is the leading oil producer in Africa, with a revenue stream of about $40 billion a year.

After meeting in Washington with Vicente Fox, the president-elect of Mexico, I flew to Nigeria to see President Olusegun Obasanjo.

And its own industry depends on a steady supply of iron ore from South Africa, copper from Zambia, and oil from Nigeria, Angola and Sudan.

But in nineteen ninety-five a teacher in northern Nigeria named Mohammed Bah Abba found a solution.

It's incredibly bad luck that this has happened in Nigeria, especially given that [this country] has made such progress.

White says Fela Kuti's mother was a women's rights activist, a teacher in Nigeria and a major influence on Kuti and his music.

The new report, "The Next Eleven, " highlights that by 2020 Nigeria is going to be amongst the top 10 economies in the world.

It is considered to have been wiped out in most of the world, except in Nigeria, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.

However, Mr Jonathan has had to appeal for calm as violence erupted across parts of northern Nigeria in response to his victory.

He retired this month at the age of 70 from his position as chairman of First Bank of Nigeria PLC.

At least 19 people have been shot or hacked to death in a brutal attack in a village in north-west Nigeria, police say.

The rumour about the terror attack at Nigeria's production establishments last week did not drive the OPEC's oil prices soaring.

While it is by no means the only culprit, Shell's record of environmental recklessness in Nigeria may be the worst in the world.

Police in northern Nigeria say suspected members of a radical Islamist group have killed three policemen and a civilian.

The Nigeria international is expected to move on this summer after being squeezed out of first team reckoning last season.

In Nigeria, a best-selling book provides youngsters with tips on "touching the heart through unforgettable text messages" .

It was the first suicide-bombing in Nigeria to target an international body. It has rattled foreign residents.

Such connections raise the spectre of a concerted Islamist threat against Nigeria, a close ally of America and a large oil exporter.

Cases began to rise during 2003 following a suspension of polio immunization activities in parts of Nigeria.

He failed formally to transfer power to Mr Jonathan before his departure, leaving Nigeria in a state of limbo.

There are now just four countries where polio transmission has never been stopped: India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

An Islamic court in Nigeria has permanently banned a rights group from holding an internet debate about amputation as a form of punishment.

A Run-for-Food race will take place in Rome on 21 October as well as in Guinea and Nigeria, among others.

The best way for Nigeria to show leadership is to help its neighbours to stop rigging their polls.

Italy's win over Nigeria game remains the only World Cup fixture in which a team, having a man sent off, has come from behind to win.

But as you move to really intense biting rate areas, like Nigeria, you're certainly not going to eradicate.

Nigeria's new president has less than one year to finish out the term of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, who died last week at the age of 58.

The idea of a major drought or other disaster in Nigeria is almost too frightening for anyone to contemplate.

They come from all over the world: United Kingdom, Canada, Cameroon, Philippines, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Bulgaria, India, and USA.

Ever since gaining independence, Nigeria had been riddled by corruption, regional and religious strife, and deteriorating social conditions.

Huang imports the suits he sells from China, but Nigeria is notoriously corrupt, and Huang says some of his suits are stolen in customs.

Mr Ban said he would send his deputy Asha-Rose Migiro to Nigeria immediately.

Take the state of Kano in northern Nigeria. Five years ago, this state suspended all polio immunization campaigns for two years.

But in the bank's latest report, out this week, Nigeria slips three places to 137th out of 183 countries surveyed.

Like the other African countries, it supported the proposals made by Nigeria on behalf of the African Group.

He was marketing director in Nigeria and Russia, before becoming general manager in Russia, one of the group's most significant businesses.

To fight corruption to a standstill and restore Nigeria to the enviable standard of respectability and dignity within the comity of nations.

A major disappointment for me was the U. S. -Nigeria football (soccer) match. A U.

The United Nations says it'll take at least 25 years to clear up pollution from oil operations in the Ogoniland region of Nigeria.

Paris and London have large West African immigrant populations, and tales of life in Britain have made their way back to Nigeria.

About a year ago, more than 80 children in Nigeria died after being given medicine for teething pain.

"Speaking specifically for Nigeria, quite a few other companies have invested there, " said Mr Fu.

The authorities in northern Nigeria said at least 19 people have died in violence in a village in Zamfara State.

This allows me to see what is missing in Nigeria and develop a strategy to get it.

The authorities in northern Nigeria say at least 19 people have died in violence in a village in Zamfara state.

Nigeria coach Augustin Eguavoen has accused Chelsea of not being straight with him regarding John Obi Mikel's fitness.

Shell seems about to cut some of its losses in Nigeria, reportedly preparing to sell $5 billion in assets in the Niger Delta.

And if a poorly functioning but important oil-producing state like Nigeria were to fall apart, the economic fallout would be global.

Gunmen have attacked a number of police stations and banks in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 12 people.

A bomb blast at the United Nations building in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, has killed at least 16 people.

But in 1995 a teacher in norther northern Nigeria named Mohammed Bah Abba found a solution.

Cuddling up to the local regime may turn you into an object of hatred, as Shell has discovered in Nigeria.

Two people, including a bomber, have died in an explosion at Nigeria's police headquarters in the capital, Abuja, the police say.

If not for the Nigeria goalkeeper, Messi would have had a hat-trick.

In Nigeria, as in other parts of Africa, most village households maintain free-ranging flocks of poultry as a source of income and food.

Nigeria and its West African neighbour, Benin, are to begin joint naval patrols in an effort to combat the threat of pirates.

Nigeria had withdrawn its intention to bid, leaving South Africa the only country south of the Sahara in the running.

However, by 1999, Egypt, Ghana and Nigeria had withdrawn, leaving South Africa and Morocco to fight it out.

The drivers came too close, and passengers sometimes pelted him with bottles (in Nigeria), or with shovelfuls of gravel (in Brazil).

See, that's one of the problems we have in Nigeria and in Africa generally.

They've blamed Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect that has for the last two years carried out numerous attacks mainly in northern Nigeria.

While Nigeria and South Africa could offer big returns, equally, they could fail to live up to expectations.

High temperatures in countries like Nigeria reduce chocolate into a sticky, gooey mess .

At least 23 people were killed in a suicide-bomb attack on the UN building in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

Nigeria is the only exception as it experienced a more than 4000% pageview growth and 1500% user growth since March 2008.

This was even before Mr Abdulmutallab's father told the US embassy in Nigeria on November 19 of his concerns about his son.

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12 teenage boys are burned to death in northern Nigeria after their speeding cars hit petrol cans piled up by the side of the road.

Singapore's narcotics bureau said twenty-one year old Tochi from Nigeria and a stateless African named Malachy were hung Friday morning.

Nigeria is one of several African countries located on the Black Sea-Mediterranean flyway used by migratory birds.

The biggest election observer group in Nigeria, the Transitional Monitoring Group, says it will call for a rerun of the presidential poll.

But in 1995 a teacher in northern Nigeria named Mohammed Bah Abba found a solution.

Goodluck Jonathan is set for election as Nigeria's president with almost double the vote of his main rival, partial results suggest.

After 30 years of no official report, an assessment carried out in south-eastern Nigeria in November 2006 confirmed some BU cases.

IT DOESN'T always pay to dress up for a party in Nigeria: it may earn you a hefty fine or even a stint in jail.

If Congo were to win, Angola's position as Africa's second biggest exporter of crude oil after Nigeria might well be threatened.

India, China, Indonesia, South Africa and Nigeria rank first to fifth respectively in terms of absolute numbers of cases.

My story of Nigeria growing up was very different from the story I encountered in prison, and I had no language for it.

Reports from Nigeria say that an oil tanker seized by pirates off the coast of the Niger Delta last week has been released.

Only Nigeria and Pakistan had more out-of-school children than India, according to a report published by Unesco.

Perhaps his most achievable goal in the remainder of his current term is to clean up Nigeria's flawed elections.

In Nigeria's northern province of Kano, near the border with Niger, some 51 farms are now known to have been affected.

After describing the outbreaks, he shifted to Nigeria's progress against polio and described positive results from a trial of a new vaccine.

At least 16 people were killed when several Christian villages were attacked in Nigeria's central Plateau state.

But the story of Africa, and my focus, is beyond South Africa because there's so much happening. Undoubtedly, Nigeria is clearly a hot spot.

In a survey by the International Finance Corporation, Nigeria ranks 178th out of 183 countries when it comes to transferring property.

On top of this, a Chinese bid to wrest control of a sixth of Nigeria's proven crude reserves risks bringing matters to a head.

Nigeria should first try to close the democratic gap with South Africa, the continent's top dog, as well as improve its scam-ridden economy.

All the main militant leaders in Nigeria's Niger Delta have now joined the disarmament process set up as part of an amnesty deal.

Children accused of witchcraft number in the thousands in the DR Congo, the Central African Republic, southern Nigeria, and parts of Angola.

Calm has returned to the parts of northern Nigeria which erupted in post-election violence on Monday.

Why would -- It's like one step up from replying to one of those emails from Nigeria, isn't it?

The western oil majors don't like the change because it would make operating in Nigeria more expensive and foster competition from China.

Earlier on Thursday, Nigeria's re-elected President Goodluck Jonathan insisted state elections would go ahead as planned across the country.

Recently I noticed they were missing an ambassador for Nigeria, and I volunteered.

The Delegation added that it supported the statement made by the Delegation of Nigeria on behalf of the African Group.

It ranks 74th out of 234 nations in terms of Internet addresses, behind Nigeria, Bangladesh, Bolivia and El Salvador.

At least 200 Nigerians were killed in clashes between Muslims and Christians in Jos, in central Nigeria.

The Delegation of Nigeria reiterated the importance that the African Group attached to that particular agenda item.

Despite the economy's progress, politics are likely to be the determining factor in Nigeria.

Years later, I thought about this when I left Nigeria to go to university in the United States.

And in the case of Nigeria, an illegal chemical dealer sold counterfeit glycerin to a drug company.

The shipment was bound for Nigeria, purportedly from two embassies in Nairobi that do not exist.

A delegation visited Nigeria (26- 28 July) and a bilateral document is to be finalised before December.

All the African countries with a large Muslim-Christian pide seem ripe to split up someday. Nigeria seems a good example.

A senior Western diplomat calls this "a real opportunity for Nigeria to kick itself into a new sphere" .

To this end, it welcomed the establishment of the WIPO Audit Committee whose membership included two African states, Nigeria and Togo.

He won commitments from the sultan , and from Nigeria's governors, to take a more active role in polio vaccinations .

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Finally, the Representative of Benin supported the statement made by the Representative of Nigeria on behalf of the African Group.

The attack in Abuja is unlikely to be the last act of political violence in Nigeria before the poll.

Drugs have been trickling across Nigeria's borders since the 1980s, but over the past few years the trickle has become a torrent.

In 2001, in Abuja, Nigeria, African heads of state pledged to devote at least 15% of national budgets to the health sector.

Nigeria's 140m-odd people have but a few hundred decently trafficked websites in their domain.

A farming community located in Nigeria's southwest, called Igbo- Ora , has a welcome sign to visitors that reads "The Land of Twins" .

THE e-mail from Nigeria claimed to come from an aide to the president and touted a business opportunity with potentially vast returns.

From Nigeria, I flew to Arusha, Tanzania, to the Burundi peace talks, which Nelson Mandela had been chairing.

Oil was up earlier after an attack on a pipeline in Nigeria and a looming refinery strike in Scotland.

When we found a ship bound for Nigeria, we went on board and set sail.

Nigeria, by contrast, has been chopping its forests down at a rate of 3. 7% a year.

A suicide bomber has attacked a church in Bauchi, northern Nigeria, killing at least two people and injuring 48, according to the Red Cross.

The tour has covered the nations of Nigeria, Mali, and now, Ghana, and was arranged by the Irish rock star, Bono.

A non governmental organization in Nigeria called Sightsavers is working to help restore sight to visually impaired people.

Elder Ballard is pleased that the church is now more open: he gushes about its growth in Ghana and Nigeria.

The Delegation associated itself with the statement made by the Delegation of Nigeria on behalf, of the African Group.

The government of Nigeria, where fakery is rife, recently declared its intention to adopt such a text-based validation system.

But in Nigeria, CNPC's offer to invest $2bn in a refinery to help secure oil blocks has fallen through.

Nigeria's most prominent oil militant leader tells the vice-president he will try to help end violence in the Niger Delta.

Nevertheless, the danger of Nigeria plunging into post election violence is a real possibility.

They also welcome the easy access to local-currency loans in Nigeria, one of Africa's most developed capital markets.

Anadariya Farms is one of many abandoned irrigation farms in northern Nigeria.

Both Nigeria and Rwanda have fledgling programmes of this type that involve both government subsidy and market providers.

The signing in May of a $20bn-plus deal with Nigeria to build oil refineries and infrastructure represents a crucial breakthrough.

Nigeria's senior oil workers union is threatening a nationwide strike to protest the firing of some of its members by ExxonMobil.

THE number-plates in Nigeria's Plateau state declare it to be the "Home of Peace and Tourism" .

It just beats Nigeria's Lagos and Abuja and is well ahead of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, seat of the African Union (AU).

A few come in from Cuba, India, Nigeria and the Philippines, but most of them quickly move on to North America.

"Bin" escaped from her home in Nigeria where she lived in fear of being attacked because of her sexuality.

To this end, at the second session of the PCDA in June 2006, Nigeria had submitted a concrete set of proposals to carry the process forward.

And yet Nigeria has a rich history of radicalism.

A strong and stable Nigeria has become essential to the project of building an Africa that can solve its own problems.

Dear A large project is in the planning for the whole of Eastern Nigeria and its industrialization.

Abdulmutallab was educated in Togo before studying engineering at University College, London and had lived outside Nigeria for some time.

Nigeria is three times the size of that Great Britain.

Nigeria's never going to be an easy place to invest, but 2008 should see real upside in energy production.

Undecided countries: Britain, France, Germany, India, Nigeria, Portugal, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Gabon.

So far, brown streak has not jumped to Nigeria, the world's largest producer of cassava.

And currently as of this year, there are clinics rolling out in Nigeria and Kenya.

Jos is a tinderbox that sits in Nigeria's "middle belt" , between the country's predominantly Muslim north and largely Christian south.

Pugh spent several years in Nigeria, where she learned how closely storytelling was linked to the everyday life of the people there.

An oil tanker seized by pirates off the coast of the Niger Delta last week has been released, officials in Nigeria say.

At the same time, the oil price rose to its highest level in ten months, thanks to a strike and other disruptions in Nigeria.

When he was born, in 1937, his father was away administering Nigeria. Alec Cook devoted his career to empire.

The news barely raised eyebrows in Nigeria, where voters are used to spikes in violence at election time.

Despite this, he was thought to be untouchable in Nigeria because of his political connections.

The firm does not propagate the myth, widely believed in Nigeria, that its extra-strong African stout makes one a stallion in bed.

It was the first suicide-bombing in Nigeria to target an international body.

Up to half of the world's neglected tropical diseases occur in Islamic countries such as Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria and Pakistan.

They point out that if any English province intervened in Nigeria there would be hell to pay.

Mr. Gates saw that himself in Nigeria.

This year, Botswana, Burundi, Chad, Eritrea, Gabon, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Togo will also have training programs.

Celebrating Easter Mass in Rome, Pope Benedict denounced what he called "savage terrorist attacks" in Nigeria.

"We used to laugh at Nigeria over corruption, " he says. "Not any more. "

In August, experts commissioned by the WHO landed in Angola, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Nigeria to evaluate the polio program.

The Delegation supported the statement made by the Ambassador of Nigeria who spoke on behalf of the African Group.

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Nigeria's acting President Goodluck Jonathan was closeted in a meeting with security officials all afternoon.

The chances of an industrial middle class emerging in Nigeria as it did in Europe 200 years ago look slim.

The abduction sounds like a far-fetched script from one of Nigeria's popular outlandish films.

A dredging programme is scheduled soon that will make the River Niger navigable all year round up to Lokoja in central Nigeria.

Terms have yet to be agreed, partly because Nigeria is reluctant to take on debt owed to western majors.

It has also been seeking to expand its investments in Africa by developing oilfields in Angola, Nigeria and Sudan.

Endione claimed to be a businessman, boasting dual nationality of Guinean and Nigeria.

THE traffic in Lagos, Nigeria's chaotic business capital, is enough to make the most patient of travellers go mad.

In Nigeria, they prefer the term "sexual networking" , while Finnish scientists call affairs "parallel relationships" .

There have also been production failures in Angola, Nigeria and the United Kingdom, and unexpected declines in oil production in Norway.

By contrast, Iraq was at No. 22 where it appeared among several African countries including Niger, Nigeria, Burundi and Equatorial Guinea.

The Security Council, led by the United States and Nigeria and France, came together to support the will of the people.

Nigeria's parliament Speaker Dimeji Bankole says the crisis is out of control and requires external intervention.

But given the current state of affairs, the oil price has been edging up all week on fears of worse to come in Nigeria.

But after three months in operation they are generating a new sense of momentum in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

He noted that Nigeria provides some 8 percent of U. S. energy needs and is the United States' largest source of low sulfa crude oil.

Militants in Nigeria have handed over weapons at a ceremony organized by the authorities in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

This beaded crown was once worn by a king of the Yorba peoples in Nigeria. It also dates from the early 20th century.

As the state made in Nigeria Friday saying they'll send a delegation to Mr. Gbagbo, convincing him to step down peacefully they hope.

Nigeria's woeful electricity supply and poor roads make it hard for entrepreneurs to flourish, or even get by.

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Despite being Africa's largest oil producer, Nigeria still fails to provide enough power for its own people.

The goods can only be sold in Nigeria and other parts of West Africa.

In 2005, when Nigeria had a bad harvest, traders imported grain from Niger, which borders Nigeria to the north.

Gunmen in northern Nigeria have attacked a convoy of the prominent religious leader the Emir of Kano. From Lagos, Will Ross reports.

Not only did China design, build and launch the satellite for oil-rich Nigeria - it also provided a huge loan to help pay the bill.

The violence comes at a difficult time for Nigeria, as the country struggles to organize a presidential poll in April.

The Delegation of Nigeria wished to commend the Secretariat for the usual hard work and efficiency in providing relevant documents.

Nigeria, although the world's eighth oil exporter, imports most of its refined petroleum products to meet local needs.

Nigeria's 160 million people are roughly divided between a mostly Muslim north and a predominantly Christian south.