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Ancient Reptiles in the Sahara
Paleontologists have found some strange crocodile cousins beneath the sands of the Sahara in present-day Niger and Morocco. The creatures roamed during the Cretaceous period on the landmass Gondwana before it broke up into the...
Nigeria: Discordant Tunes Trail Yar'Adua's Meeting With Aaron Team
Last Saturday, President Umaru Yar'Adua reportedly met and dialogued with persons nominated by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to negotiate on its behalf towards working out a lasting peace in the...
West Africa: 2010 - FG to Transport Gas to Benin, Togo And Ghana
Abuja — Chief Ojo Maduekwe, the chairman, ECOWAS Council of Ministers, on Friday, said the transportation of gas from Niger Delta to Benin, Togo and Ghana would begin in 2010. Maduekwe, who is also Nigeria's minister of Foreign...
Nigeria: The Politics of Food Security
Many out there, especially those engrossed in the hustle of city life, may not appreciate the magnitude of the impending food crisis. For such and more, agriculture appears secondary on the scale of things that require urgent...
Nigeria: Amnesty Package - N6 Billion Grossly Inadequate for Imo -Ohakim
Imo State Governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim has faulted Federal Government's N6 billion post amnesty compensation to militants in the State, saying the amount was grossly inadequate. Saturday Champion recalls that the Federal...
Nigeria: JTF Takes Over Possession of Camp Five
After every operational tour of combat zones or theatres of operation, be it internal security or foreign peace support, by service chiefs of the military to their officers and soldiers on ground, there are usually traditional...
Africa: Copenhagen 2009 - Averting Dangers of Climate Change in Africa
analysis Abuja — On the eve of the climate change summit in Copenhagen this December, momentum for action it does appear, still falls far short of that needed to avert catastrophe. Yet global warming comes primarily from...
Nigeria: Don Blames Leaders for Militancy
Port Harcourt — Militancy in the Niger Delta region has been linked to the failure of Niger Delta leadership and not the Federal Government. Professor Ebiegberi Alagoa, Emeritus Professor of History of the University of Port...
Nigeria: Navy Committed to Policing Waterways, Ibrahim
THE Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Ishaya Ibrahim has restated that the Navy is committed to policing the Nigerian waterways more effectively for maximum security of all marine operations. Admiral Ishaiya Ibrihim made this...
3 new ancient crocodile species fossils found
WASHINGTON — A 20-foot-long crocodile with three sets of fangs — like wild boar tusks — roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers reported last week. The three new species, along with new examples of...
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