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As of late Friday, 40,000 tickets had been sold to MLS Cup 2009 at Qwest Field in Seattle. Some tickets are still available for purchase. Seattle Sounders FC, the host club, set an MLS record by averaging more than 30,000 fans...
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. Gilbert da Costa | Abuja 21 November 2009 The...
Emmanuel Gbevegnon met his wife, Eriko Hidaka, in 1995 in Niger. Eriko, a native of Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, was there to help with vaccination activities, using her experience as a... Read more . . .
Nigeria signed a 677 million euro pact with the European Union on Thursday aimed at combating corruption and promoting peace in its troubled, oil-producing Niger Delta region. The agreement will help the oil exporter to tackle...
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.
THE Niger-Delta Peoples Conference (NPDC), a non-governmental organization, has given contractors who abandoned projects awarded to them by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) after collecting the total contract sums,...
Book: Poisoned Wells. The Dirty Politics of African Oil Author: Nicholas Shaxson Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007 Volume: 280 pages Reviewer: Martyn Drakard Available at Aristoc "Oil," wrote Ryszard Kapuscinski, "is a great...
This image released by The National Geographic Society shows a flesh model of the head of DuckCroc. which had a broad, overhanging snout and long, pointed nose. Ancient Africa's swamps and rivers swarmed with plant-eating and...
The Federal Government has commenced payment of arrears of allowances owed former militants in various camps in the Niger Delta region. Each of the former militants is entitled to N65,000 per month as stipend for the period of...
Mecca — Ten Nigerian pilgrims were quarantined at the infectious diseases hospital ,Jedda for suspected swine flu (H1N1). According to the Public Health Bulletin, a weekly health publication on medical health services for...
