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BBC News - Nigeria violence: Curfew in Kano after deadly blasts
Seeded on Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:55 AM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
Police stations and the state police HQ were among the targets, and gunfire was heard across the second biggest city.
Nigeria investigates massive fuel subsidy fraud | Reuters
Seeded on Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:25 PM EST (Reuters)
The smoking gun, Nigeria has discovered a huge discrepancy in the amount of the motor fuel it subsidises and what people actually consume, a legislative committee said, supporting the idea that a government scheme to make petrol cheaper is wasteful and corrupt.
Abortion a bigger problem than joblessness, says Catholic Church
Seeded on Sun Jan 8, 2012 7:20 AM EST (ELPAIS.com)
Cardinal Archbishop Antonio Rouco Varela used an open-air gathering in Madrid's Plaza Colón on Friday to attack the policies of the previous Socialist Party government
BBC News - Nigerian leader Goodluck Jonathan defends fuel cut
Seeded on Sun Jan 8, 2012 5:22 AM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
"I have no intention to inflict pains on Nigerians," he said on Saturday evening, arguing that the cut was in the "best interest of all Nigerians".
Nigeria's Historic Opportunity - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Sat Jan 7, 2012 3:57 AM EST (The New York Times)
In my conversations with President Jonathan Jeffrey D. Sachs is director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
Boko Haram: The Three Phases of Terror
Seeded on Fri Jan 6, 2012 3:44 AM EST (Nigerians Talk)
This article is not an attempt to justify the killing of innocent Nigerians, Muslim or Christian. Those acts cannot be rationalized and are totally condemnable.
Nigeria Fuel subsidy and a roguish cabal in Nigeria
Seeded on Tue Jan 3, 2012 5:51 PM EST ()
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala under fire List of the people who benefit most from oil subsidy, which include some of Nigeria's richest people - the owners of fuel-importing firms OandO Nigeria Plc (Managing Director - Mr. Wale Tinubu) - N228. 506 billion
IRELAND-UK TRAVEL data accord - Visa Nigeria
Seeded on Wed Dec 28, 2011 4:00 AM EST (Irish National ...)
A pilot exchange to check data provided in 1,700 Irish visa applications lodged in Nigeria against UK immigration records has identified over 200 persons applying to come to Ireland who have an adverse UK immigration history.
Govt, civil society, differ still on fuel subsidy
Seeded on Fri Dec 23, 2011 9:48 AM EST ()
Nigeria lost $16bn to oil subsidy in 2010 but unable to calculate how much lost to corruption in the same period.
Biden touts political freedoms
Seeded on Sun Dec 4, 2011 6:19 AM EST ()
A free political climate is essential to economic innovation, and countries that try to censor the Internet are pursuing a "dead end," U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told a group of young entrepreneurs gathered in Istanbul
BBC News - Corruption fanned global political unrest says watchdog
Seeded on Thu Dec 1, 2011 12:54 PM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
corruption played a key role in the political upheaval in the Middle East and across the world in 2011
Daniel stole ₦84b from state coffers'
Seeded on Tue Nov 29, 2011 2:39 AM EST (Next News Nigeria)
Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun today revealed that his predecessor, Gbenga Daniel stole the sum of ₦87 billion, as well as $4 million
BBC News - Sudan to expel ambassador after Kenya's Bashir warrant
Seeded on Tue Nov 29, 2011 2:12 AM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
Sudan ordered the expulsion of the Kenyan ambassador after a Kenyan judge issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's foreign ministry has said
Out in just TWO years: 'Soft' sentence for serial teen offender caught on c
Seeded on Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:19 AM EST (the Mail online)
A teenage thug photographed stabbing a man during the Notting Hill Carnival has been jailed for four and a half years...
allAfrica.com: Topical Focus Page: Gambia President Brushes Off Criticism of His Regime
Seeded on Fri Nov 25, 2011 7:38 AM EST (AllAfrica News: Latest)
President Yahya Jammeh is confident he will be the victor in the country's polls, and has heaped scorn on criticism that his regime is repressive.
Go Figure: Why does every person need 200kg of steel a year?
Seeded on Thu Nov 24, 2011 5:35 AM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
GO FIGURE - Seeing stats in a different way. Imagine that every year, every one of us gave birth to an eight-year-old made from steel. Disturbing image.
BBC News - Nigeria's anti-corruption chief Farida Waziri sacked
Seeded on Thu Nov 24, 2011 5:11 AM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
EFCC was set up in 2002, in that time, it has prosecuted 30 politicians, of whom only four have been convicted and none are now in prison.
BBC News - Dagestan - the most dangerous place in Europe
Seeded on Thu Nov 24, 2011 5:00 AM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
Dagestan - the most dangerous place in Europe
Pope denounces corruption on African tour - Africa - FRANCE 24
Seeded on Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:59 AM EST (Frace24)
Pope Benedict XVI condemned corruption and called on African leaders not to deprive its citizens of hope at a time of "too much violence.
Italian firm misleads shareholders on gas flaring in Nigeria
Seeded on Thu Nov 17, 2011 3:14 AM EST ()
Italian oil major, ENI, is misleading shareholders over the company's commitment to end gas flaring in Nigeria, according to a new report by an international delegation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Obama takes on the LRA | Foreign Affairs
Seeded on Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:18 PM EST ()
Americans should not have been surprised by Obama's recent announcement that he would send a small number of troops to Uganda. This is only the latest chapter in a feeble, decades-long U.S. attempt to take out Joseph Kony and his militia.
BBC News - African viewpoint: A Sodom and Gomorrah dilemma
Seeded on Sun Nov 13, 2011 7:23 AM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
We shall never abandon our social and customary mores and we will rather die, if need be, with dignity but we shall "never legalise homosexuality".
79% of Africa's arable land remains uncultivated and other useful stats from Africa
Seeded on Sun Nov 13, 2011 5:51 AM EST (Mo Ibrahim Foundation - Forum 2011 )
Only nine African countries have reached the Maputo targetBiofuel production will require 35 million hectares of land by 2030Population of 30 African countries will more than double by 2050Half the population on every continent will be living in cities by 20503.5 million more tra …
BBC News - Malaria vaccine hope after blood entry route discovered
Seeded on Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:10 AM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
The route all strains of the most deadly malaria parasite use to enter red blood cells has been identified by researchers at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge.
BBC News - Uganda fury at David Cameron aid threat over gay rights
Seeded on Wed Nov 9, 2011 9:55 AM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
UK Prime Minister David Cameron said at the weekend that those receiving British aid should respect gay rights.
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Recent attacks by radical Islamist sect in Nigeria
A look at recent major attacks in Nigeria attributed to the radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram:
Sect kills police officer at station in N. Nigeria
Police say gunmen from a radical Islamist sect have attacked another police station, killing one officer in a north Nigeria city where they killed 185 people last week.
BBC News - Nigeria violence: Curfew in Kano after deadly blastsPolice stations and the state police HQ were among the targets, and gunfire was heard across the second biggest city.
- Nigeria investigates massive fuel subsidy fraud | Reuters
The smoking gun, Nigeria has discovered a huge discrepancy in the amount of the motor fuel it subsidises and what people actually consume, a legislative committee said, supporting the idea that a government scheme to make petrol cheaper is wasteful and corrupt.
- Analysis: Nigeria protests up pressure to reform oil sector
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