Nigeria

Nigeria President Umaru Yar'Adua 'has heart problem' The president has had a chronic kidney condition for at least 10 years Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has a heart condition, his spokesman has said, after he flew to Saudi Arabia on...

In this article: Umaru Yar'Adua, Pericarditis, Chest pain, God, Acute pericarditis, People's Democratic Party, Goodluck Jonathan, and Saudi Arabia

...Adeniyi after speaking with the president's chief physician. He added he was unsure when Yar'Adua would be able to return to Nigeria. (Reporting by Felix Onuah; Editing by Louise Ireland) ((richard.valdmanis@thomsonreuters.com; Dakar...

In this article: Umaru Yar'Adua, Acute pericarditis, Dakar, and Saudi Arabia

...film star is famous for a song about financial fraud entitled "I Go Chop Your Dollar". While driving along a highway in eastern Nigeria earlier this month, he was kidnapped. His abductors originally demanded 15m naira ($99,000). He was...

...defaulting debtors of nine bailed-out banks two weeks to organise repayments or risk arrest, prosecution and the seizure of their assets. Nigeria has injected around 600 billion naira ($4 billion) into the banking system since mid-August...

In this article: Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and Liquidity crisis

...foothold in Africa's top energy industry. Chinese state energy firm CNOOC in September identified 23 licences in Nigeria in which it would like to buy stakes, including 16 operated by Shell, Chevron and Exxon which expired last November...

In this article: Exxon, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, Injunction, Joint venture, and Cnooc

Nigeria on Friday renewed three shallow water oil licences jointly operated with Exxon Mobil <XOM.N>, granting the U.S. energy firm leases of a further 20 years with the option to renew again. "Today we have reached an agreement on the terms...

In this article: ExxonMobil, Exxon, Abuja, and U.S.

...2:40PM GMT 20 Nov 2009 Driving force: Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel will be a key performer for Nigeria at World Cup 2010 Photo: REUTERS Nigeria's World Cup record: 1994 2nd rd, 1998 2nd rd, 2002 1st rd. How Nigeria qualified:...

In this article: World Cup 2010, John Obi Mikel, World Cup, Everton, Joseph Yobo, Obafemi Martins, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Chelsea, and African Cup of Nations

...dozen children were holding out their bowls toward shoppers. For generations it has been tradition in Muslim-dominated northern Nigeria for parents to send their sons from as young as six to local Islamic scholars known as Malams to learn...

In this article: Kano, Neem, and UN

Nigerians canoe through clusters of water hyacinth in Ojo, near Lagos, in southwest Nigeria, Nov. 9, 2006. Nigeria intends to press First World countries at the Copenhagen conference to start a fund to help pay for damages in Africa caused...

In this article: Climate change, Global warming, Copenhagen, Africa, Lagos, House of Representatives, World Bank, and Raila Odinga

Page last updated at 11:41 GMT, Friday, 13 November 2009 Osaze Odemwingie (r) says Nigeria can still make it to the World Cup Nigeria are ready to pip Tunisia to the final World Cup qualifying spot in Group B of African qualifying.

In this article: Kenya, World Cup, Osaze Odemwingie, Mozambique, Fast Track, Tunisia, Maputo, and Nairobi