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Nigeria sees too much oil in the market

YoopyaJun 13, 20120

VIENNA (Reuters) – Nigeria Oil Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke said on Tuesday that she thought there was too much oil supply on the market. The minister

2 Attacks in Nigeria Target Christians

YoopyaJun 11, 20120

JOS, Nigeria (AP) — A car bomber detonated his explosives on Sunday outside a church in this central Nigerian city, and gunmen attacked another church

Husband of Nigeria air crash victim sues Boeing

YoopyaJun 9, 20120

LAGOS (Reuters) – The husband of a woman killed in last Sunday’s plane crash in Nigeria is suing the plane’s manufacturer, Boeing, and engine maker

Suicide bombing of Nigeria police station kills 4

YoopyaJun 9, 20120

By Ibrahim Mshelizza MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into the entrance of the police headquarters of northeast

Nigeria plane reported engine failure

YoopyaJun 7, 20120

ABUJA (Reuters) – A plane that crashed in Nigeria’s main city of Lagos on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board, called the control tower

Nigeria forces say kill 16 Islamists in fire fight

YoopyaJun 6, 20120

MAIDUGURI (Reuters) – Nigerian forces shot dead 16 suspected militants in a fire fight with Islamist sect Boko Haram on Tuesday, the military said. A

153 dead as plane plunges in Nigeria

kiemtarJun 3, 20120

A plane carrying 153 people has plunged into a residential area of Nigeria’s largest city, with all those aboard feared dead, an inferno igniting at

Nigeria to send oil law to parliament in June

YoopyaMay 29, 20120

ABUJA (Reuters) – The latest draft of the Nigerian Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) put together by a task force set up by President Goodluck Jonathan

Nigeria president unlikely to risk oil graft crackdown

YoopyaMay 14, 20120

By Joe Brock ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is coming under pressure to prosecute top officials implicated in a $6.8 billion fuel subsidy

Nigeria police arrest 27 oil thieves at pipeline

YoopyaMay 9, 20120

PORT HARCOURT (Reuters) – Nigerian troops have arrested 22 Ghanaians and five Nigerians whom they caught stealing from an oil pipeline in the Niger Delta,