Niger

Couple's love story started in Africa

Emmanuel Gbevegnon met his wife, Eriko Hidaka, in 1995 in Niger. Eriko, a native of Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, was there to help with vaccination activities, using her experience as a... Read more . . .

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Nigeria: Niger Delta Ministry Has Failed - Reps

The House of Representatives yesterday expressed displeasure at the budget performance of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, even as it stated that the ministry has so far not been able to justify the reasons why it was created.

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Nigeria: FG Begins Payment of Allowances to Former Militants

The Federal Government has commenced payment of arrears of allowances owed former militants in various camps in the Niger Delta region. Each of the former militants is entitled to N65,000 per month as stipend for the period of...

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Swine Flu - Ten Pilgrims Quarantined in Jedda

Mecca — Ten Nigerian pilgrims were quarantined at the infectious diseases hospital ,Jedda for suspected swine flu (H1N1). According to the Public Health Bulletin, a weekly health publication on medical health services for...

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Group Gives Failed NDDC Contractors Ultimatum

THE Niger-Delta Peoples Conference (NPDC), a non-governmental organization, has given contractors who abandoned projects awarded to them by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) after collecting the total contract sums,...

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Indicted Contractors Return N70m

MinnaNiger Seven months after some officials of the past administration led by Alhaji Abdulkadir Kure were indicted by the judicial commission of inquiry set up to probe contracts awarded between 1999 and 2003 in Niger...

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Uganda: Book Review - Now That Uganda Has Discovered Oil...

Book: Poisoned Wells. The Dirty Politics of African Oil Author: Nicholas Shaxson Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007 Volume: 280 pages Reviewer: Martyn Drakard Available at Aristoc "Oil," wrote Ryszard Kapuscinski, "is a great...

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EU gives Nigeria $1bn 'for peace'

Militants have been demanding a greater share of the oil wealth The European Commission has signed a $1bn (£602m) development pact with Nigeria, aimed at tackling corruption and promoting peace. A substantial amount of the...

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19th Century Exploration of Africa

Adventure and Discovery in the Dark Continent Some 150 years ago, the greater part of Africa was unknown to Europeans. They called it the Dark Continent because so much of it was still unexplored and undiscovered Around the...

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Spain: 'El País Semanal' issues special photo edition on child rights

Spanish photographer Isabel Muñoz at a photo shoot with Sebastián Alonso, 13, who lives a life of poverty and daily instability in Colombia but has received strong support from the community. In the run-up to 20 November 2009,...

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