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• Suspected Terrorist Tried to Blow Up Plane, U.S. Says

  
  Royal Dutch Shell plc .com — Authority: 143
  Nigeria, whose population of about 140 million people makes it Africa’s most populous country, is almost evenly split between the mainly Muslim north and a largely Christian south. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, said Dec. 19 it attacked a pipeline in the southern oil region used by ...
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• Tourism Enriches » Blog Archive » Is It Safe To Travel In Nigeria …

  
  Oil and Gas Information — Authority: 141
  The high risk of further kidnappings by armed militants around the oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta also applies to ships and oil rigs at sea off the coast of the Niger Delta. In 2007 there has been an increase in attacks offshore . On 21 October, in a violent armed attack on an offshore support vessel, 3 ...
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• Nigeria Says Shell Will Need Government Approval to Sell Assets

  
  Royal Dutch Shell plc .com — Authority: 143
  Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria’s Oil Minister said Royal Dutch Shell Plc will need government approval to sell oilfields following a report that it plans to sell as much as $5 billion of assets in the West African nation.
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• Nigeria kept in the dark by Shell

  
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• Chinese companies vie for Shell Nigerian assets

  
  Royal Dutch Shell plc .com — Authority: 143
  An insider familiar with the talks said that Shell was likely to sell the fields in individual transactions in the first half of 2010.
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• Nigeria rebel group Mend attacked oil pipeline using machine guns and assault rifles

  
  Niger Watch — Authority: 91
  Armed men in the Niger delta of Nigeria say they have attacked an oil pipeline overnight, putting a two-month truce with the government in doubt. A faction of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said it attacked the pipeline. A spokesman said it was because the government was delaying peace talks ...
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• Shell plans £3bn sale in Nigeria

  
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• Shell Nigeria has no reports of attack on facilities

  
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• Mobil Begins Clean Up of Oil Spill in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Area

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) has started the clean up of the Atlantic shoreline after the December 4 crude oil leak from the Qua Iboe Oil fields which it operates in the Niger Delta. The oil firm had reported a leak on the pipeline on December 4, which caused the discharge of an unknown volume of crude oil into the ...
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• Nigerian Judiciary, A citadel of Corrupt Minds

  
  Thy Glory O Nigeria..! — Authority: 124
  Adeola Aderounmu When I was a little boy I was told that lawyers are liars. It was a joke but it stuck. I was determined never to become a lawyer but I do admire them. Almost everything institution in Nigeria is corrupt and upside down. All our democratic institutions that should be protecting the rights of ...
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• Nigerian judge dismisses landmark corruption case (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 179
  AP - A Nigerian judge has dismissed a 170-count indictment accusing a former state governor in the oil-rich Niger Delta of corruption.
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• Nigerian judge dismisses landmark corruption case (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 179
  AP - A Nigerian judge has dismissed a 170-count indictment accusing a former state governor in the oil-rich Niger Delta of corruption.
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• Nigerian President’s Absence Stymies Foreign Firms

  
  Royal Dutch Shell plc .com — Authority: 143
  The government of President Umaru YarAdua said this week that Nigerias leader, undergoing treatment for a heart condition in Saudi Arabia, was responding to treatment, addressing weeks of speculation about his health. "It is only his doctor that can determine or say when he will come back," Information Minister Dora ...
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• Halliburton and the ‘Resource Curse’

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 650
  Part I of an interview with David Ugolor, head of the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice . Sojourners: Nigeria is sometimes cited as an example of the “resource curse,” where a country’s natural resources — oil, in the case of…
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• Dumping death

  
  Black Looks — Authority: 544
  Bhopal – 23 years on the site has still not been cleaned up. Oil spills in Oloibiri Dumping toxic waste in NairobiLesotho – GAP/ Levi factory dumps chemical wasteTrafugura dumped on Abidjan
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• Nigeria’s Crude Production Expected to Hit 3m Barrels Per Day By 2010

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The Nigerian government has said that the success of the amnesty granted to militant group members in the restive Niger Delta would make it possible for the production of three million barrels of crude oil per day from next year. The country’s Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Michael Aondoakaa, gave the ...
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• Niger Delta farmers sue Royal Dutch Shell

  
  propaganda press! freedom now — Authority: 142
  A group of Nigerian farmers are suing Royal Dutch Shell over an alleged oil spill in the Niger Delta region that they say ruined the livelihood of local villagers. The farmers claim that badly maintained pipelines of a subsidiary of Shell spilt oil that contaminated fish ponds and farms in Bayelsa State in 2005. ...
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• European Union to Launch Gas, Renewable Energy Project in Nigeria

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The European Union (EU) is to launch a 2.3 million Euro project in Nigeria on the sustainable utilization of gas and renewable energy resources. The Information Officer of the Delegation of the European Commission to Nigeria, Mr Kelechi Onyemaobi, told APA in Abuja on Saturday that the project would be funded by the ...
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• The Hostage Business

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Rebel militants in the Niger Delta have used kidnapping and sabotage to disrupt oil production.
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• Ellen Driscoll’s Plastic Lineage

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 522
  By Emily Bouckaert Circle of Blue Sculptural installation FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 uses discarded plastic bottles to comment on global resource and consumption issues. American artist Ellen Driscoll explores resource consumption and material lineage in her latest multi-part, multi-year project, ...
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