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Nigeria Fines Emirati Telecom for Poor Performance New York Times DUBAI — Etisalat Nigeria, part-owned by the Emirati telecommunications giant Etisalat, was fined around $2 million by Nigerian regulators this week for poor service and failure to meet quality targets. The company says it plans to spend more than $500 ... |
MTN Says Sabotage, Attacks Hampering Nigerian Services Bloomberg MTN Group Ltd. (MTN), Africa's largest mobile-phone operator, said sabotage, terrorist attacks and shutdowns by state agencies seeking undue taxes are hampering efforts to meet service conditions set by Nigeria's regulator. The Nigerian Communications ... |
Concern over Nigeria's 'loss' of LNG market The Nation Newspaper By OLUKOREDE YISHAU 4 hours 46 minutes ago The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) used to control ten per cent of the global market share. It has dipped to between seven and eight per cent. There are fears it may dip to five per cent, if its growth ... |
![]() AFP | Nigeria government holds first mass wedding as it tries to match make 1000 ... Daily Mail By Daily Mail Reporter Religious authorities in a strict Muslim state in Nigeria have held a mass wedding for 100 couples as part of government plans to match make 1000 widows and divorcees. The Kano state government in northern Nigeria announced its ... 100 Nigerian couples in mass wedding Nigerian Kano divorcees marry in mass ceremony Nigerian state sees mass weddings as solution to soaring divorce rate |
![]() AFP | US presses for return to democratic rule in Mali, G.Bissau AFP LAGOS, Nigeria — The United States pressed Wednesday for a return to democratic rule in Mali and Guinea-Bissau, hit by recent military coups and no longer recipients of non-humanitarian aid from Washington. "The military must step aside completely ... Nigeria troops ready for Mali, Guinea-Bissau Nigeria to deploy troops to G-Bissau Nigerian troops for Guinea Bissau, Mali |
![]() Myjoyonline.com | Nigeria: Court declares Police Act on female officers' marriage illegal Myjoyonline.com The group had asked the court to expunge the said Regulation from the Police Act, as it was not justifiable in a democratic state such as Nigeria, which had domesticated the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights and ratified the Protocol to the ... |
![]() The Daily Star | Doctor firings expose medical failings in Nigeria The Daily Star By Jon Gambrell LAGOS, Nigeria: The firing of nearly 800 doctors working at hospitals in Nigeria's most populous state has exposed the failings of the nation's medical system, as lawyers said Wednesday negotiations over the physicians' fate continued. Doctor firings exposes medical failings in Nigeria |
![]() CHANNELS | Nigerian police report Boko Haram killed 308 in 2011 Agenzia Giornalistica Italia (AGI) Abuja - Nigeria's police reports that in 2011 the fundamentalist Islamic group Boko Haram launched 118 terror attacks killing 308 people in six states in north-central Nigeria, plus the federal capital of Abuja. From the time Boko Haram began its ... Buhari dares Jonathan: Arrest me if you can 2015: ACN joins Buhari's CPC to attack Presidency ACN denounces attacks on Buhari |
![]() CHANNELS | Doctor firings expose medical failings in Nigeria BusinessWeek By JON GAMBRELL The firing of nearly 800 doctors working at hospitals in Nigeria's most populous state has exposed the failings of the nation's medical system, as lawyers said Wednesday negotiations over the physicians' fate continued. Nigeria commissions rice mill Lagos to produce 40000 bags of rice yearly Is Lagos doctors' strike politically motivated? |
Castellote launches compass to Nigeria's art Vanguard Presented at the Metropolitan Club, Victoria Island, Lagos, the occasion anchored by Bolanle Austen Peters of TerraKulture can only be described as another encouraging prospect for the Nigerian visual arts as it was graced by eminent personalities, ... |