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ABUJA, Nigeria, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Nigeria has issued international arrest warrants for two former government leaders under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, police said Thursday.
Cadbury Nigeria Plc (CADBURY NL), the Nigerian unit of Cadbury Plc, fell in Lagos trading after it forecast a loss- after tax of 821.7 million naira ($5.5 million) in the three months through March.
Amnesty International exposed the shocking level of unlawful police killings in Nigeria, in a new report released today.
Religious leaders in Nigeria launched an unprecedented $1-billion effort Thursday to tackle malaria, which each year kills up to 300,000 Nigerians.
A rise in insecticide resistant mosquitoes has become the latest threat to combating malaria in Nigeria, where roughly up to 300,000 people die each year from the killer disease, experts have warned.
Nairobi/Abuja - Nigerian police carry out hundreds of extra-judicial killings each year without fear of punishment, an Amnesty International report released Wednesday claimed. Police don't only kill people by shooting them; they also torture them to...
An Arlington couple has been charged with domestic servitude after a Nigerian woman was found living in a Tarrant County home as a slave, authorities said. An Arlington couple has been charged with domestic servitude after a Nigerian woman was found living in a Tarrant County home as a slave, authorities said. A court document revealed that the couple allegedly forced the woman to work long ...
An Arlington couple has been charged with domestic servitude after a Nigerian woman was found living in a Tarrant County home as a slave, authorities said. ARLINGTON, Texas - An Arlington couple has been charged with domestic servitude after a Nigerian woman was found living in a Tarrant County home as a slave, authorities said. A court document revealed that the couple allegedly forced the ...
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria’s economy expanded 7.07 percent in the third quarter of this year compared with 6.13 percent in the same quarter a year ago as the contribution of oil rose, the National Bureau of Statistics said.
Amnesty International has exposed the shocking level of unlawful police killings in Nigeria in a new report.
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria’s foreign currency reserves rose 3 percent in the month through Dec. 3 as oil prices and production improved. Reserves climbed to $44.04 billion from $42.7 billion the month before, the Central Bank of Nigeria , based in the capital, Abuja, said on its Web site today.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Nigerian cocoa farmers will be paid premiums of $20 to $40 a metric ton for supplying good quality beans, London-based commodity trader Armajaro Holdings Ltd. said.
Police in Nigeria are getting away with shocking levels of brutality and unlawful killings of civilians, largely because the law allows them to shoot suspects at will, which officers abuse to justify, commit and cover-up murder, Amnesty International said in a new report issued today.
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Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Nigerian police officers kill hundreds of people illegally each year, often citing a law that allows them to shoot suspects escaping arrest, Amnesty International said.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Bank PHB Plc, one of the banks that received a bailout from the Central Bank of Nigeria, reported a loss of 382.43 billion naira ($2.5 billion) for the 15 months through September compared to a profit of 19.6 billion naira for the year through June 2008.
