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Sports Illustrated - Mon Dec 7, 12:19 pm ET
Russia coach Guus Hiddink has revealed that he will not lead another team to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Both the Nigerian FA and the Argentinian FA were believed to be interested in signing the Dutchman.
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Albuquerque Journal - 2 hours 7 minutes ago
30-year-old Nigerian accused of stealing checks from roommate, defrauding school. A New Mexico Tech graduate student from Nigeria has been charged with fraud and forgery, following complaints by his roommate and the sch . . .
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CNN - Sun Dec 6, 12:32 am ET
Planners of Nigeria's capital city are plotting three new city centers, new railways and a highway.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 2, 6:22 am ET
A Nigerian group said Tuesday it would next week mobilise over 5,000 volunteers to give a notorious slum in the centre of Lagos, the country's commercial hub, a facelift.
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Bloomberg - Fri Dec 4, 5:18 am ET
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria will waive entry requirements in order to attract major oil and telecom companies operating in the country to trade their shares on the local bourse, ThisDay reported, citing Ndi Okereke-Onyuike, the director general of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
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Journal of Commerce Online - 1 hour 50 minutes ago
Global forwarder Panalpina is in discussions with the U.S. Justice Department to settle allegations that it violated American anti-bribery laws in Nigeria, the company said Wednesday.
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PRWeb - Mon Dec 7, 3:18 am ET
Superstar actress Daryl Hannah, Pras a member of the legendary Grammy Award winning group 'The Fugees' and Gian Carlo Esposito distinguished star of numerous movies including "Twilight" opposite Paul Newman, "Derailed" with Clive Owen, Spike Lee films, TV and Broadway, joined by Bollywood Stars Nandita Das, Nandana Sen, and Film maker Madhu Mantena are all bound for Port Harcourt, Nigeria to ...
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New York Times - Mon Dec 7, 6:33 pm ET
The Carter Center, which has battled the worm for 20 years, says none have been found for 12 months in a row.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 7:05 pm ET
Human rights are increasingly under threat in China, according to a British firm which analyses dangers for business worldwide, while also describing risks in Russia, Nigeria and India as extreme.
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Bloomberg - Thu Dec 3, 10:33 am ET
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria should extend its investigation of the banking industry to include the country’s stock exchange, central bank and securities and exchange commission, Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Lamido Sanusi said at a conference in the nation’s capital, Abuja, today.
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The Huffington Post - Tue Dec 8, 7:13 pm ET
Earlier this year, President Obama went to Africa and issued this simple statement: "Africa's future is up to Africans." He highlighted the power of Christians and Muslims in Nigeria working side-by-side to end malaria.
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PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Dec 8, 12:41 pm ET
An arrest warrant issued by the Nigerian police against the popular reformer Nasir El-Rufai has been denounced by his lawyer as "groundless" and "part of a campaign of intimidation."
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Foreign Policy Blogs - Wed Dec 9, 12:03 am ET
A new story today by the BBC details the growing problem of police violence in Nigeria. The morgue at the Nigeria University Teaching Hospital overflows with bodies brought in by police, often unnamed but reported to be suspected criminals, such as armed robbers or thieves. In some cases, that may be the case but in [...]
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 6:07 am ET
A Nigerian court on Friday again deferred a ruling to December 17 in the trial of a former governor of oil-rich Delta State accused of stealing millions of dollars during his tenure.
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USA Today - 32 minutes ago
At the climate summit taking place here, nobody's a bigger celebrity than the delegation from the tiny island nation of Tuvalu.