20100914
africanews

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said he has proposed a legislation that seeks to improve the management of the country's oil revenue through a special fund for savings and infrastructure.

20100912
africanews

Former Nigerian Football Federation [NFF] president Sani Lulu Abdullahi and his three associates will continue to spend time in jail after failing to meet the deadline for their bail conditions. Their bail was set at N100 million each by Justice David Okorowo, along with two sureties.

20100911
reuters

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian security forces have freed two Russian sailors who were abducted from their vessel in the oil-producing Niger Delta a month ago, a senior security officer said on Thursday.

20100909
africanews

Former Nigerian Football Federation president Sani Lulu Abdullahi and his three associates have pleaded not guilty to charges of corruption at an Abuja Federal High Court.

20100907
africanews

LAGOS (Reuters) - Tech-savvy young Nigerians are gearing up to use BlackBerries, mobile phones and social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook to monitor polls in January, in an effort to stamp out electoral fraud.

20100907
africanews

Four former Nigeria football officials are behind lock and key for a missing $8m (£5m) during the World Cup finals in South Africa. The four, who include former football federation head Sani Lulu Abdullahi, are due to appear in court in the capital Abuja, according to an anti-corruption official.

20100903
africanews

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan may not yet have declared whether he will run in elections due in January, but a growing number of his supporters are actively campaigning on his behalf.

20100903
africanews

Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has cautioned Africa countries not to glamorize coup makers and called for total condemnation of any such unconstitutional takeovers of democratic governments.

20100830
reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - A Nigerian court set a 500 million naira bail on the former head of Intercontinental Bank who faces charges of mismanaging the lender in the run-up to last year's $4 billion sector-wide bailout.

20100830
reuters

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Four policemen have been shot dead over the past month in the northern Nigerian town of Maiduguri, raising fears that a radical Islamic sect behind an uprising which killed hundreds a year ago is making a return.

20100827
africanews

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria will hand over management of its electricity grid to a Canadian, Indian or Irish firm by year-end as it embarks on the multi-billion dollar privatisation of its dilapidated power sector, a top official said on Friday.

20100827
africanews

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The longer the process of selling Nigeria's rescued banks lasts, the less attractive they could become, said the head of South Africa's Standard Bank, which is interested in buying one.

20100826
africanews

A wind of change seems to be blowing in the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, with the emergence of new board members. After the Thursday elections, Aminu Maigari from the North-East Zone, emerged as the new president of the football governing body of the West African Nation.

20100824
reuters

PORT HARCOURT Nigeria (Reuters) - A powerful former Nigerian gang leader accused of helping to rig elections in the oil-producing Niger Delta was shot late on Tuesday, raising fears of retaliation in the volatile region.

20100823
UN News

An assessment of the environmental impact of oil spills across Ogoniland and the Niger Delta regions in Nigeria is not yet complete, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stressed on Monday as it refuted allegations in the media that it has already reached key findings.

20100823
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria is seeking bidders for 11 electricity distribution firms in deals that could unlock billions of dollars of foreign investment and help end chronic power shortages, the privatisation agency said on Monday.

20100823
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria is seeking bidders for 11 electricity distribution firms in deals that could unlock billions of dollars of foreign investment and help end chronic power shortages, the privatisation agency said on Monday.

20100822
Vanguard

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is now stalled in preparing a time-table for next year's election following the power play between the Presidency and the National Assembly over the amended 1999 Constitution.

20100821
Vanguard

Abuja — PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan Friday returned to heat and pressure of credible poll to the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) when he assented to the controversial Electoral Act, saying that his quest for credible election remains an article of faith.

20100821
africanews

A cholera outbreak in Nigeria has killed 231 people this year across 11 states and infected more than 4,500 others, the country's chief epidemiologist said. Neighbouring Cameroon has been suffering its worst epidemic of cholera, a disease generally spread through food and water contaminated with bacteria, since 2004 and there had been fears that the outbreak could spread into Nigeria and Chad.