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NIGERIA: Yar'Adua risks position with cabinet changes
President Umaru Yar'Adua yesterday overhauled the structure of the cabinet, making changes to key...
NigeriaNIGERIA: Politics complicate SWF future
Nigeria's proposed sovereign wealth fund will be the sixth such fund in Africa. Although...
NigeriaNIGERIA: New Delta peace committee lacks lustre
The government today named a 40-member committee to pursue peace in the Niger Delta, in the first...
NigeriaNIGERIA/RUSSIA: NNPC reaches MoU with Gazprom
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday...
NigeriaNIGERIA: Government rejects Yar'Adua health rumours
The government denied yesterday speculation that President Umaru Yar'Adua was ill in Saudi...
NigeriaNIGERIA: Leadership deficit threatens reforms
The new president has not parlayed the momentum from the country's first civilian-to-civilian...
NigeriaAFRICA: Ecobank will expand with record rights issue
Togo-based Ecobank announced yesterday that it would go ahead with a 2.5 billion dollar rights...
AfricaNIGERIA: Yar'Adua reshuffles top military brass
President Umaru Yar'Adua appointed a new chief of defence staff yesterday, along with new chiefs...
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