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By Luis Ramirez Beijing 10 January 2006 The giant Chinese state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation, CNOOC, has reached a deal to buy a 45 percent stake in a Nigerian oil field for more than
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 18 June 2007 Nigeria's top unions say they will begin an indefinite general strike after failing to reach a last-minute compromise with the government. Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports for VOA on the buildup to what could b
By Nico Colombant Abuja 23 April 2007 Nigeria's ruling party, whose candidate won the deeply flawed presidential election on Saturday, denied the ballot was rigged. The opposition candidates, however, have rejected the results of the election, which
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 18 July 2006 Sabo Adamu who is a young tailor works at his father's shop at Ruga area of Abuja, July 17, 2006 Civil servants in Nigeria have issued an ultimatum to the federal authorities to halt planned job cuts or risk a
By David Gollust State Department 20 April 2007 Many fear Nigeria elections will be chaotic On the eve of Nigeria's presidential election, the United States is appealing to Nigerian authorities to make the voting as free, fair and transparent as poss
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja, Nigeria 24 February 2007 Nigeria's president says escalating violence in the restive Niger Delta has taken on a criminal dimension. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa reports that militants are continuing assaults on foreigners in t
By Benjamin Robertson London 21 February 2007 Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar says that his country is heading for autocracy and dictatorship unless voters support him in the upcoming presidential elections. For VOA in London, Benjamin Robert
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 19 December 2006 Nigeria's main opposition party, the All Nigeria Peoples Party, has selected a former military ruler, General Muhammadu Buhari, as its representative in next year's presidential ballot. The selection came b
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 26 October 2006 The two-chamber Nigerian parliament is scheduled to vote on the declaration of emergency rule in Ekiti State by President Olusegun Obasanjo. The president faces defeat as a majority of lawmakers are reported
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 20 July 2007 Nigeria says it has discovered new material it believes will strengthen its $7 billionlawsuit agains the U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and has withdrawn the case in preparation for filing a new lawsuit. For VOA, Gilbert
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 30 August 2006 The government's security crackdown in the troubled Niger Delta has provoked a huge debate in Nigeria regarding the best strategy to deal with violence in the region. Some Nigerian leaders are advocating new
By Joe Bavier Abidjan 20 February 2006 Oil instalation belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company in Odidi Niger Delta Militants in Nigeria's volatile, but oil-rich, Niger Delta say they have st
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 11 March 2006 Olusegun Obasanjo (file photo) An opposition leader in Nigeria's parliament is alleging lawmakers are being offered bribes to support another term for President
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 28 June 2006 There's an angry backlash after Tuesday's arraignment of two Nigerian journalists in a court in Abuja on sedition charges. The trial is raising questions about tolerance for press freedom in Africa's most popul
By Gilbert Da Costa Abuja 08 February 2006 Nigeria has confirmed an outbreak of bird flu virus in its poultry stock. Laboratory tests in Nigeria and Italy had established a highly pathogenic strain of
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 18 April 2007 Saturday's presidential ballot in Nigeria appears headed for a crisis, as a coalition of opposition candidates calls for its postponement. Gilbert da Costa reports for the VOA from Abuja that the opposition's c
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 07 August 2006 Hundreds of residents of Nigeria's disputed Bakassi peninsula have held an independence ceremony to highlight opposition to the government's plan to hand over the oil-rich region to Cameroon. -------- A group
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 13 July 2006 Nigerian authorities are investigating explosions at two crude oil pipelines, which are causing massive spills in the southern state of Bayelsa. State authorities are seeking to end a wave of kidnappings, hosta
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 08 December 2006 A militant group in Nigeria is threatening to launch more attacks on the oil industry, a day after it seized four foreign oil workers. Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports for VOA that Nigerian officials say t
By Naomi Schwarz Ouagadougou 12 June 2007 In Africa, the number of private technology companies is increasing as entrepreneurs and technology workers cash in on this growing sector. For VOA Naomi Schwarz tells the story of one such entrepreneur from