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Yahoo! News reports, "A pipeline belonging to Agip, a unit of Italian energy giant ENI, was blown up with dynamite in restive southern Nigeria, a military officer said Sunday.   There were no casualties in the explosion which happened on...

Nigeria's president Umaru Yar'Adua has instructed lawyers to sue the Lagos-based newspaper Leadership after it reported that he had been taken ill and failed to attend public functions. A spokesman said the report was false and the president had no...

Not on the basketball court but in ping-pong. ”I love ping-pong,” said Okwandu, a 7-foot-1, 255-pound center. “Ping-pong is creative...A native of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Thabeet is helping Okwandu, who's from Lagos, Nigeria, adjust to college life on and...

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua is replacing his gas and power ministers in a cabinet reshuffle that builds on other restructuring within the country's petroleum sector. Emmanuel Olatunde Odusina, Nigeria's Minister of State for Energy (Gas) has been ousted as has...

Abuja, reported the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday.     According to the communique, the investors said the Niger Delta crisis had hindered the nation's quest for influx of foreign capital, especially in the area of oil and gas.     It said...

Lessons From Thaksin Shinawatra's Conviction Daily Independent (Lagos) 7 November 2008 Posted to the web 7 November 2008 Olusola Adegbite A couple of weeks back, a former Prime-Minister of The Republic of Thailand, in the person of Thaksin Shinawatra, was...

Ghanaian President John Kufuor has urged Ghanaians to yield to the authority of the Electoral Commission (EC) when it declares the results of the presidential election, according to Pan Africa News Agency's report on Friday.     In a statement, Kufuor noted...