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Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria’s inflation rate rose in November for the second consecutive month, reaching 12.4 percent on higher transportation costs, damping hopes for an interest rate cut any time soon.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- A senior soccer official says countries bidding to host the World Cup must show they will support the sport’s development to have a chance of being awarded the 2018 or 2022 events.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Standard Bank Group Ltd. , Africa’s largest lender, says it’s looking at Nigeria for possible acquisition opportunities as a banking crisis in the West African country slashes valuations.
( Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine ) Free infectious HIV-1 is widely thought to be the major form of the virus in the blood of infected persons. However, US Military HIV Research Program researchers have demonstrated that essentially all of the infectious virus particles can bind to the surface of red blood cells isolated from each of 30 normal (non-infected ...
Thousands of people marched Tuesday in Niamey to back Niger's President Mamadou Tandja, who has obtained an extension of his mandate in defiance of his foes and by flouting the international community.
MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- The Gas Exporting Countries Forum, or GECF, has no immediate plans to coordinate output volumes to regulate prices but doesn't rule out becoming an Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries-like cartel in the future, the group's newly elected general-secretary, Leonid Bokhanovsky, said Tuesday.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries raised the estimate for the amount of crude its members will have to pump next year as world consumption recovers.
With manufacturers showing a marked preference for network monitoring systems over traditional protocol analyzers, there has been a shift in balance in these markets. In this battle for market supremacy, network-monitoring systems are emerging as leaders, supported by their status as a complete monitoring solution for network operators.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- OPEC members bound by quotas raised oil production to the highest this year as Nigeria restored output, the organization said today.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Global liquefied natural gas producers may boost capacity utilization next year as the world economy recovers and new production lines iron out kinks, a consultant said.
A summit of heads of state and government of the regional Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been postponed to January 18, an ECOWAS spokesman said Tuesday.
The first border marker has been laid between Nigeria and Cameroon in line with a world court ruling to end years of conflict over the Bakassi peninsula, Cameroon national radio said Tuesday.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Eni SpA said it started production at the Oyo oilfied located offshore Nigeria. Allied Energy Plc and Eni own 57.5 percent and 40 percent, respectively of the project, while Camac holds the remainder.
December 15, 2009: The truce in the Niger Delta appears to be holding. Many of the gunmen have been disarmed, and their leaders bought off (and allowed to concentrate on stealing oil). The increasing violence of separatists and oil theft gangs has subsided for some four months now.
December 15, 2009: American commanders believe the 30,000 additional U.S. troops, plus increases in Afghan and NATO forces, will enable the Taliban to be crushed within a year.
Over the last decade, a handful of the nation’s small energy companies pulled off a coup. Right under the noses of the industry’s biggest players, they discovered huge amounts of natural gas in fields stretching from Texas to Pennsylvania.
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