Nigeria threatens to halt energy firms’ LNG schemes

Nigeria warned on Thursday it may consider suspending the liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects of foreign energy firms unless they submit a detailed plan by the end of October to supply gas for domestic power generation.
Nigeria’s power crisis is one of the biggest brakes on growth in Africa’s most populous nation. President Umaru Yar’Adua’s administration [...]

Henry Nwosu new Nigeria’s under-17 coach.

 
Nigeria have appointed former international Henry Nwosu as their new under-17 coach.
Nwosu, who was Nigeria’s assistant coach at the recent Olympic Games in China replaces Alphonsus Dike, who was dismissed on Friday.
Dike was fired after Nigeria, the reigning world champions, failed to qualify for the 2009 African under-17 finals in Algeria.
Nigeria, who [...]

Chevron continues selling gas stations in West Africa

 
Chevron continued a sell-off of gas stations in Africa today, saying it will sell some 225 Texaco stations in West and Central Africa, along with other facilities.
On Friday Chevron said it would sell its 350 Texaco stations in Nigeria.
San Ramon-based Chevron (NYSE: CVX) has been selling so-called downstream businesses — refining, marketing and transportation of [...]

Burkina Faso bans Chinese Milk imports

 
OUAGADOUGOU—Burkina Faso, one of the world’s poorest countries, on Wednesday announced it has banned all imports and sales of Chinese milk  products following the tainted milk scandal there.
In a statement, the West African nation’s government said the decision was taken because of “the heath risk posed by these products to consumers” and warned that all infractions [...]

Eto

The Cameroonian international received criticism after his first two performances in the league saw him unable to score, but after his penalty in midweek he was feeling confident.
After being told that he would be leaving in the summer, Eto’o proved to himself and the coaching staff that he should stay and wanted to thank Guardiola [...]

How Abuja boys mobbed famous Nigerian musician ,Timaya

Popular musician, Timmaya, was Saturday mobbed and stripped of his belongings by youths in Abuja . The incident, which took place at the Eagles Square, happened when the musician came out to perform at the 2008 National Youth Summit.
Trouble started when he was carried away by the cheers from his fans and jumped down from [...]

Another kidnap case in Rivers State Nigeria,this time Intels finance officer

Unknown gunmen struck again in Port Harcourt yesterday evening and kidnapped the Finance Manager of Intels Services, Mr. Bertrand Ajoku whose driver received several gunshot wound and is said to be recuperating in an undisclosed hospital in Port Harcourt.
THISDAY gathered that the man was returning from work at about 8pm when some gunmen blocked [...]

• WITHOUT JTF ,RIVERS STATE WILL BE LAWLESS-KENNETH UWADI

The Editor in chief of a Nigerian based Magazine, Famous People News, Mr. Kenneth uwadi has stressed on the importance of JTF in Rivers State Nigeria. He said that without JTF presence in Rivers State, the state would have been lawless by now.He spoke to newsmen while reacting on the petition sent to the presidency [...]

Igbos in Nigeria agitating for state creation

THE agitation by various sections of the South East geopolitical zone over the location of the proposed additional state to be created for the zone may soon be resolved as the pan Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo said it would resolve the issue soon after this year’s Igbo day celebration.
The organisation said that a name [...]

Nigeria,121st most corrupt country in the world

TRANSPARENCY International (TI) has rated Nigeria 121st in its Annual Corruption Perceptions Index just released.
Sharing the same spot with Nigeria are Togo and Sao Tome and Principe.
Although this is an improvement on Nigeria’s ranking some six years back, the latest development is a challenge that a lot has to be done in the fight against [...]

Aides of Yar’Adua takes oath of secrecy

 
Political office holders serving in the State House, were yesterday administered an oath of secrecy.
There are 70 political office holders serving in the State House.
The oath, which is the first of its kind, was administered on them following a directive by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
Justice Husseini Yusuf Baba of the Abuja High Court administered the [...]

Yinka craig,Nigerian Broadcaster is dead

Broadcasting  lost yesterday a strong and loyal voice.
Renowned sports commentator Yinka Babasanya Craig succumbed to cancer at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, United States. He was 60.
His son, David Olamide, a medical doctor, announced the death in a statement posted on the deceased’s website.
The website was created to raise funds for Craig’s treatment [...]

France sign pact of power generation with Nigeria

France has signed with Nigeria a communique aimed at deepening the economic relationship between both countries for a strategic partnership in the area of power generation, (thermal stations, construction of hydroelectric dams), transmission and distribution. Nigeria had expressed desire to acquire electro-nuclear program in order to meet its increasing energy needs which received the French [...]

EU, Russia race towards Nigerian gas supplies

The European Union and Russia are currently wooing conflict- torn Nigeria over the construction of the proposed USD 21-billion Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline project. The project, which stretches from over a distance of 4,300-kilometres across the Sahara desert would connect Nigeria’s gas reserves to Europe through Algeria’s Mediterranean coast.
Beating the EU to the punch, Russian gas [...]

Acquittals confirmed in Costa Rican magazine editor’s murder case

The Sala III supreme criminal court has upheld the acquittal of six men in the hitman-style murder of a Costa Rican magazine editor Dec. 23, 2003.
The six have been cleared by a trial panel Nov. 20, 2006, but the prosecution appealed the decision to the higher court. The appeals court vote was 3 to 2, [...]

Three doping cases from Beijing Olympics come to light

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced three more doping offense, bringing the total number of the positive cases to nine at last month’s Beijing Olympic Games.
The IOC said in a statement issued yesterday that two hammer throw medalists from Belarus and a canoeist from Poland failed doping tests during the Aug. 8-24 Beijing Games.
Silver medalist [...]

Taro Aso elected president of Japan’s ruling LDP

Taro Aso, current secretary general of the ruling Liberal democratic Party (LDP), was elected LDP’s party chief in its presidential election today.
Aso, who served as the foreign minister in Junichiro Koizumi’s cabinet as well as in the subsequent Shinzo Abe’s cabinet, won 351, or 66.6 percent, of a total of 527 votes.
According to the LDP [...]

Why ANC forced Mbeki to resign

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – President Thabo Mbeki bowed to heavy pressure from his own party to resign Saturday, tossed to the sidelines of the economic powerhouse he built up as punishment for allegedly abusing his power in trying to quash a popular rival.
The swiftness of the ouster likely will stoke fears about the political [...]

African moms pass HIV to kids

Sibonelo Nonhlanhla Mdluli-Groening is a rare success story in Africa because the HIV-positive woman gave birth to a healthy, disease-free baby girl.
Preventing HIV mother-to-child transmission is common practice in the west, but not in Africa.
Starting Monday, more African HIV-positive women will be helped to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the disease with the arrival of 50 [...]

Nigerian Woman tired of hiding in church sanctuary in canada

 
A Nigerian mom who’s been hiding in a Port Credit church for two years in her bid to avoid deportation and possible female circumcision says her sanctuary has now become a prison .
Ola Akinwalere, 44, and her Canadian-born daughter, Alice, 12, say they face gender mutilation if removed to Lagos, where a form of [...]

Militants annouce ceasefire

LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigeria’s main militant group is declaring a ceasefire in the southern oil region after a week of stepped-up attacks on the military and oil infrastructure in Africa’s oil giant.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said Sunday it was ceasing hostilities immediately after appeals from elders and politicians in the [...]

when Nigeria detained US firm maker

Authorities have detained a U.S. documentary filmmaker in Nigeria’s troubled oil producing region for filming the military without authorization, an official said Tuesday.
A Niger Delta military spokesman, Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, said the military handed the American to state security operatives for questioning after arresting him for filming troops at the waterfront in the southern oil [...]

Importance of cashew

 
This article is dedicated to those who are nuts about nuts. Many of you like nuts such as peanuts, hazelnuts, almonds, walnuts, pistachios, pinenuts, etc., but do you know cashew nuts are low in fat content and have a delicate, sweet flavor? And, unlike other nuts, you will never find cashews sold in the store [...]

The fall of Thabo Mbeki

Thabo Mbeki was born into one of the leading families of the African National Congress.
His father – Govan – was a stalwart of both the ANC and the Communist Party.
Thabo spent his early years in the rural Transkei. His father was often away on party business and he worked in the family store [...]

Chevron to sell 350 Texaco stations in Nigeria

 
Chevron Corp., seeking to reduce its ownership of gas stations and ancillary “downstream” businesses in various countries, will sell its fuel marketing business in Nigeria.
The deal includes some 400 gas stations, about 350 of which sell under the Texaco brand. There are also two aviation facilities, a lubricants blending plant and a commercial and industrial [...]

Venezuelan Govt Expels 2 Human Right Activists

– The Venezuelan government has expelled two Human Rights Watch staffers and ordered them not to return, the group said Friday.

Jose Miguel Vivanco was kicked out of Venezuela after issuing a report critical of the country’s president.

The men were kicked out of Venezuela on Thursday night, hours after issuing a report in the capital of [...]

FG lifts suspension on Channels tv

The Federal Government has lifted the three-day long suspension of the operating license of Channels television.
The television station had its license suspended on Wednesday by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) following its report of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s resignation from office.
Speaking to newsmen in Abuja yesterday, the Director General of the NBC said the lifting [...]

militants strike cawthorne channel

BARELY few hours after the Defence authorities warned trouble makers in the Niger Delta that the military won’t be intimidated, militants in Rivers State on Thursday night detonated explosives on the vital Cawthorne Channel belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).
In the process, they said, they destroyed a major pipeline which passes through Elem-Kalabari and [...]