Nigeria’s Ogonis Divided Over Resuming Oil Production

Oil once flowed in Ogoniland, as it does from wells throughout the creeks and swamps of Nigeria's Niger Delta region.But in 1993, the Ogoni people said enough. Leaking pipelines were polluting the fields they farmed and the waterways they fished.Oil giant Shell was forced to pull out of Ogoniland that year in the face of protests led by the charismatic Ken Saro-Wiwa, head of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni Peop...

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Boko Haram Turns Robin Hood’s Strategy on Its Head

As a convoy of trucks carrying smoked fish cruised along the border of Niger and Nigeria last week, a Nigerien Air Force plane swooped low and opened fire, destroying the trucks and forcing the drivers to flee into Nigeria on foot. The ill-fated fishmongers, Nigerien officials said, were collaborating with Boko Haram to sell their goods in Nigeria, despite Niger’s recent ban on cross-border fish trades. (Residents of Niger are called Nigerien;...

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Buhari’s popularity is a clear and present danger to the PDP Says Lamido

When Sule Lamido the Governor of Nigeria’s northwestern state of Jigawa – warned that “the fear of General Muhammadu Buhari”, the presidential flag bearer for the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), “is the beginning of wisdo...

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Fuel scarcity: Marketers receive 58 million litres

The lingering fuel scarcity which hit had on the entire country in the last four days, may easy up this week.Chat212 Fm learnt that the 58 million litres of fuel promised by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, have been released to major marketers. Confirming the development, Mr. Taofeek Lawal, Head Corporate Affairs of NIPCO Plc told Chat212 Fm that they have started dispensing the prod...

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74 men, 20 children killed for refusing to join Boko Haram

The Islamic sect, Boko Haram, yesterday, slaughtered 74 men and 20 children at Njaba Village in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State for refusing to join the insurgents.There was, however, no official confirmation from either police or military authorities on the claims by residents of both Damboa and Chibok, where over 200 schoolgirls were abducted early last year.Chat212 Fm gathered from some security operatives that some of the insurgents,...

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Jobs, Dizengoff W A (Nigeria) Ltd recruitment for Executive Sales Representatives

Dizengoff W A (Nigeria) Limited recruitment for Executive Sales Representatives Jobs, Sales Jobs, Executive Sales Representatives Jobs Needed, Dizengoff W A (Nigeria) Limited recruitment, Job Vacancies for Nigerian looking for Jobs  Dizengoff W A (Nigeria) Limited is a highly respected multi divisional company established for almost 60 years in Nigeri...

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