Posts Tagged nigeria
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
August 12, 2010
NewsRescue- Little surprise, people love free things. And with the telecommunications burst that is not such a burst on the pockets, Nigerians keep seeking ways to reduce their phone call costs.
As the Nigerian telephone company mogul, Mike Adenuga is purported to have said- ‘phone business is like ritual(voodoo) money’. It makes so much!
Countries [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
July 14, 2010
Doing Business in Nigeria 2010 is the result of collaboration between the World Bank Investment Climate Team for Africa, the subnational Doing Business team and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The Government of Germany, through the Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), and the Government of Switzerland, through the State Secretariat for [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Aug 12th, 2010
NewsRescue- Weddings are no small matter in Nigeria. A nation of over 150 million peoples of diverse cultures, Nigerians as a whole take marriage very seriously.
Last week, CNN presented a beautiful show about Nigerian weddings in America, the pump and fanfare, and the culture of extravagance, including the popular ’spraying money’ culture. Nigerian [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
August 4th, 2010
Wyclef Jean, hinted this decision earlier in a press interview he granted while in Nigeria for a United Bank of Africa(UBA) occasion for the outgoing MD of the UBA conglomerate, Tony Elumelu with important dignitaries, like the former president of Nigeria, Obasanjo, state governors, representatives of the current president, Goodluck Johnathan, representatives of [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Update, Aug 7, 2010:
Air freight cargo services are gradually resuming to Nigeria, as airlines and the Nigerian customs are reaching positive resolutions. There is an expected severe backlog and clog from the month long shipment delay.
Delta Cargo is pleased to announce resumption of cargo service into Lagos, Nigeria (LOS) and Abuja, Nigeria (ABV), beginning [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
April 29th 2020
Washingtontimes- Nigeria has risen to the top tier of the world’s worst violators of religious freedom, according to an annual report to be released Thursday by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
The independent bipartisan governmental agency, whose report details abuse in 28 nations, singled out Nigeria for not punishing religiously motivated violence, [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
April 19, 2010
A top story on global media outlets like MediaTakeout.com; American born singer, Beyonce Knowles popularly as Beyonce will be packing her things and getting set for yet another wondrous attention grabbing occasion as she performs at the wedding of Bella Adenuga, daughter of Nigerian billionaire Otunba Mike Adenuga, and Jameel Disu.
Niyitabiti.net earlier reported that [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
March 30th, 2010
SIX Junior Secondary School (JSS) students from Bauchi State have emerged winners of the International Exhibition of Young Scientists competition held in Spain, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported.
The students, who invented a solar-powered electric car automated module, represented Nigeria at the exhibition which was attended by young scientists from 120 [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
March 10 2010
NewsRescue- Contrary to what many might think, there is a sure and easy solution to the repeated riots that usually erupt in the North-central part of Nigeria.
These riots, usually supported by religious differences are actually centrally hemmed on resource, land and social deplorable existing conditions. The root cause of the characteristic deadly problem [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
March 8th, 2010
Aljazeera- Nigerian authorities have arrested nearly a hundred people in connection with attacks near the central city of Jos that killed more than 500 people.
Police and soldiers surrounded the village of Dogo Nahawa, about 15km south of Jos, as survivors buried the dead in mass graves on Monday.
Residents said herders from nearby hills [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Feb 17, 2010
Newsweek-
HIV Still Plagues the U.S.: Some Areas Have Higher Rates Than Africa
By Jaime Cunningham
In December, NEWSWEEK argued that new signs of life were showing in the AIDS activism movement. Let’s hope so. Recent research published in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that within certain populations in America, the prevalence of HIV-infected [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Feb 23, 2010
NewsRescue- Nigeria’s president, Musa Yaradua has arrived back in the capital Abuja three months after seeking medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, raising fresh questions over the leadership of Africa’s most populous nation.
He arrived in a Saudi jet accompanied by the presidential jet in the late hours of Tuesday night.
Reports reaching our desk [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
January 23rd, 2009
Guardian- WITH the intensity of criticisms within the US government circles and outside, the Americans may soon review the inclusion of Nigeria on its terror watch list of countries of interest, according to a senior White House official.
Speaking at the US Foreign Press Centre in Washington DC on Friday afternoon, White House National [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
December 30th, 2009
NewsRescue- From the Nigerian kid who recently set his pants on fire trying to detonate a bomb aboard the Detroit headed Delta airliner, to the riots in Iran, the Somalian Pirate captured at sea and brought to the US for justice{MSNBC, April 21 2009}.
Through the five United States citizens captured last week in [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
November 20, 2009
Related: NewsRescue- How The IMF-World Bank and Structural Adjustment Program(SAP) Destroyed Africa
NewsRescue-
According to the BBC, the European Union will give Nigeria the sum of 1 billion US dollars as a ‘peace and anti corruption’ initiative and trade and resource deal. Story(BBC) This not surprising at a time of increasing battle with the Russians [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
October 29, 2009
NewsRescue- According to a new release on Reuters, Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) has promised to fight any possible efforts by the Nigerian Government to reallocate fields currently in its control to Chinese oil companies.
Related: NewsRescue- Shell settles Nigeria killings suit; $15.5 Million
“One thing you probably will have seen, and can be sure [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
October 28, 2009
Tribune- A female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Niger state, has been reportedly strangled to death by her male colleague . Nigerian Tribune learned that the deceased and her assailant were both from the South Eastern part of the country.
During the on-going service year, according to [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
October 22, 2009
(CNN) — Organized crime gangs are exploiting a new target for illegal profit: Medicare and Medicaid.
Federal agents arrest two suspects last week in Los Angeles on charges of Medicare fraud.
Experienced in running drug, prostitution and gambling rings, crime groups of various ethnicities and nationalities are learning it’s safer and potentially more profitable to [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
By Abubakar Suleiman
This is the story of my life. I am a black man and those that share my skin color know what a burden than can be. It is the shame of centuries of slavery for which even a decent apology is too much to expect and the pain of knowing that of all [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
October 7, 2009; Update: October 28,2009
NewsRescue- A major headline in many Nigerian daily’s has been the very sad story of an alleged gang-rape that resulted in the death of a Nigerian youth corper serving in Borno State in Northern Nigeria.
Unsubstantiated, inciting news report
This tale was reported by a new Nigerian newspaper, Next, and in their [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The video shows how journalists duly accredited by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to observe the controversial rerun of Ekiti State gubernatorial election were assaulted, beaten, bitten and maltreated by Ekiti state officials. The journalists had discovered paid agents who engaged in multiple thumb-printing of ballot papers on the eve of [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September 12th, 2009
NewsRescue- Well if indeed he burned newspapers and locked up reporters, we at NewsRescue wish to see how he will again stretch his ‘power’ to burn down internet media bodies like ours that WILL report this news story and WILL keep it on the net-waves for as long as internet remains a tool [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September 2nd, 2009; NewsRescue
by Abeeb Mobolaji
Firstly, let me thank the Almighty for being here, alive and able to tell my story after my near death experience yesterday on the streets of Accra, capital of Ghana. Had I died, this tale may very likely have been told very differently.
I am a Nigerian and also a Ghanaian [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September 8th, 2009
Afrik- An adviser to US President on environmental issues has resigned following controversial comments made about the environmental situation in Nigeria’s Niger Delta.
Mr. Van Jones, said that western oil companies were deliberately killing blacks by virtue of their careless environmental practices in Nigeria. According to a report which appeared in the Washington [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Update; August 31st 2009
NewsRescue- Although we can not verify, in a very touching, remarkable development, the very sister of the young man accused of this horrendous act, recently commented on this article, that- though he is her brother, he should be killed for it. Linda Uwakwe:
Kill him, he deserves it. He is my brother
We have [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Jan 22nd, 2009
NewsRescue- A very strange meeting officially called ‘festival of ideas’, took place in Nigeria on the invite of Nduka Obaigbena and his ‘ThisDay’ Nigeria newspaper, just as Obama was being prepared for swearing-in (Jan 20th 2009). This very strange, higher echelons meeting was largely unreported by main stream news media, but NewsRescue picked [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
August 17th, 2009
NewsRescue- The article below and related articles raise pertinent questions- 1. Is the United States promoting a breakup, in what’s known as the ’tissue scarcity scare’ scenario, where the suggestion and promotion of a concept leads to its manifestation. Nigerians skeptical about the possibility of a breakup get reassured that best analysis from [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
August 14th, 2009
In a statement dated August 9, 2009 and made available to Vanguard, the sect whose activities led to the lost of hundreds of lives in northern Nigeria recently declared that their leader Yusuf who was killed in controversial circumstances during the crisis, lives forever.
Boko Haram members and their late leader, Mohammed Yusuf
In what [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
August 13th, 2009; 234Next.com-
A Nigerian made armored car was on Thursday launched by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua at the eagle square in Abuja.
It is the first home made armored car, with most of the materials used in its production sourced locally, while others were imported.
It was built by two Nigerian brothers who recently relocated from [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
August 7, 2009
OVER 220 illegal immigrants in Libya mostly Nigerians may be executed before tomorrow morning, New Nigerian has learned. A source said that out of this number, 30 were allegedly executed in the early hours of yesterday in the prison yard in Tripoli, the Libyan capital.
According to the source, among the Nigerian illegal immigrants [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
June 25th, 2009
Related: US Army Prepares for Nigeria’s Possible Break-up (2015)
NewsRescue- Indicators are pointing toward a possible breakup within the next few years of several African nations, which include- Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan and Ethiopia. The CIA made a prediction of Nigeria’s breakup within a few years, and similar predictions are the likely inevitable outcome of [...]