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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 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...
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...
The primitive crocodiles, which lived 100m years ago, were good swimmers but were also capable of galloping across the plains Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of primitive crocodiles that "galloped" on land and...
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...
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...
Minna — Niger Seven months after some officials of the past administration led by Alhaji Abdulkadir Kure were indicted by the judicial commission of inquiry set up to probe contracts awarded between 1999 and 2003 in Niger...
