A New Chief at Shell, and a Rocky Inheritance The New York Times | NEW YORK - Even as Jeroen van der Veer was preparing to pass the baton to Peter Voser, who took over as chief executive of the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell last Wednesday, the contentious legacy of the company's activity in Nigeria was nipping at its heels. Skip to next paragraph | A blog about ene...
Natural gas line would connect Africa, Europe Houston Chronicle | ABUJA, NIGERIA - Nigeria, Algeria and Niger have signed an agreement to create a $10 billion pipeline that would ship natural gas across the Sahara to Europe, Nigeria's state oil company said Friday. | The plan comes as Europe seeks new sources of natural gas imports. It depends on Russia for much...
Nigeria militants say attack Shell oil facility The Guardian (Adds background) LAGOS, July 5 (Reuters) - Nigeria's main militant group said on Sunday it had attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil facility in the Niger Delta, its third such strike since President Umaru Yar'Adua made an amnesty offer last month. The M...
Guinness thirst in Nigeria expands Diageo market The Times | Sweat is dripping from every pore of the raucous crowd packed into the Aquatic Hotels, a central Lagos venue converted for the night into a television studio, but they don't seem to care. They're too busy whooping it up for a string of dance troupe...
Hausa Prophet Prediction And Adage On Inevitable Collapse Of Nigeria In Few Years Modern Ghana Written by Gary Busch | Sunday, 28 June 2009 | There's an old Hausa proverb "The cry of the hyena and the loss of the goat are one". Nigeria has been celebrating the arrival of the chief hyena and his pack over the last week and has not understood th...
'Petropolitics', NDC and Hypocrisy! Modern Ghana | Feature Article : "The Author's/Authors' views do not necessarily reflect those of ModernGhana. | I am tired of the hypocrisy that has so much permeated our political culture. I am beginning to wonder whether it's even worth continuing to write abo...
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Oil up to near $72 on dollar fall, Nigeria attack Philadelphia Daily News | PABLO GORONDI | The Associated Press | Oil prices rose to near $72 a barrel Tuesday after briefly jumping above $73 as a weakening U.S. dollar and attacks on oil installations in...
Oil jumps above $73 on dollar fall, Nigeria attack Kansas City Star More News | Oil prices jumped above $73 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as a weakening U.S. dollar and attacks on oil installations in Nigeria helped push prices to eight-month highs. | B...
Oil jumps above $73 on dollar fall, Nigeria attack The Wichita Eagle SINGAPORE - Oil prices jumped above $73 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as a weakening U.S. dollar and attacks on oil installations in Nigeria helped push prices to eight-month highs. | B...
Report on Nigerian Banks Fabricated, in Bad Taste, Says CIBN All Africa The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) on Thursday joined its voice to the array of condemnation that has greeted the recent story citing The African Report, a publication of Paris based Groupe Jeune Afrique Magazine, to the effect that...
Sahara gas pipeline gets go-ahead BBC News | Nigeria, Niger and Algeria have signed an agreement to build a multi-billion dollar pipeline to take Nigerian gas across the Sahara to the Mediterranean. | The giant project, which will cost an estimated $13bn (£8bn), aims to deliver up to 30...
Loss of Oil Well - Cross River Senators, Reps Protest, Declare Hunger Strike All Africa All three Senators and eight members of the House of Representatives from Cross River State yesterday declared a two week hunger strike to protest what they claimed as the unjust transfer of seventy-six oil wells from the State. | ...
Oil jumps above $73 on dollar fall, Nigeria attack The News & Observer | SINGAPORE -- Oil prices jumped above $73 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as a weakening U.S. dollar and attacks on oil installations in Nigeria helped push prices to eight-month highs. | Benchmark crude for August delivery was up $1.06 to $72.55 a barrel by midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange after trading as ...
