Nigerian Media Workers Demand removal of Managing Directors | On Strike

The Workers of New Nigeria Newspaper have instigated an indefinite strike yesterday that led to the shutdown of the company, demanding that Managing Director of the Company Mr. Ndanusa Alao to be sacked.

Nigeria | Controversy over Number of Casualties in latest Religious Violence

By: Victor Ulasi, Nigeria
It was a sad development as the Plateau state Government prepared for the burial of 380 innocent victims killed during the recent religious crash between Christians and Muslims. The killings occurred in Dogo Na Hawa village on Sunday morning, March 7, 2010 and was said to be a counter revenge by the Muslims on the last [...]

Disabled Nigerians Demand Their Rights to Vote

By: Victor Ulasi, Nigeria
Disabled Nigerians are demanding to be included in the electoral system of Nigeria which gives them the right to contest for any political offices also requested to be given equal opportunity on employments, education and access to public places like there able human counterparts.
People Living with Disability suffer great challenges and are [...]

International Women’s Day: Nigerian Women Demand Equal Rights

Nigerian women have demanded an equal right and equal opportunity from their male counterpart stating that they can no longer continue with the rate of disrespect and gender inequality in the country as women in Northern Nigeria are seen as second-class human beings.

200 Dead, 300 Wounded in Nigerian Religious Crisis

According to reports, military units began surrounding the villages around the same time journalists and officials visited the areas. “It appears to be reprisal attacks,” said State Commissioner of Information Gregroy Yenlong.

Student pleads guilty to theft charges

By: Victor Ulasi, Nigeria
A Nigerian student aged 21 (name withheld) has pleaded guilty at Abuja magistrate court for stealing a goat and three turkeys to buy some clothing for himself and fund a proposed date with his girlfriend with the money realized out of the sales of the stolen items.
World News Vine learns [...]

Netherlands Memoranda Aids Millions of Nigerian Farmers

The Netherlands has signed a Memoranda of Understanding with Nigeria on agricultural sector of the country that would enable the Netherlands invest and develop the agricultural business capability of Nigeria that will liberate over 20 million farmers from poverty.

Nigeria Loses 175 Billion Naira Within 9 Years to Pipeline Vandalism

By: Victor Ulasi, Nigeria
Mohammed Barkindo, Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, has disclosed that Nigeria has lost 175 billion Naira from 2000 to 2009 on petroleum products, damages, and pipeline vandalism.
Nigeria has postponed the exports of over 300,000 barrels of crude oil and 140 standard cubic feet of gas because militants have attacked Crude oil export [...]

3 SuperSport Journalists kidnapped in Nigeria

Two Nigerian and one South African journalist working for SuperSport Television channel were kidnapped at Owerri Local Government area of Imo state, Nigeria after producing a program on Nigeria Premier League game

Militants attacks Shell’s flow station in Delta, Nigeria

Militants under the group known as Peoples Patriotic Revolutionary Force have blown up Shell flow station at Kokori, Ethiope East Local Government Area in Delta State of Nigeria, and threatened to attack any opposition that may rise against them regardless of political status.

Nigerian Women to US – You are Killing our Children

Over 13 people have reportedly died of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis in 17 Local Government Area of Jigawa State, Nigeria by the state Commissioner for Health Dr. Ibrahim Muhammad Nashabaru because of shortage of vaccines in the affected areas.

Interview with Georges Lemaitre, OECD international migration expert, on recent migration trends in the European Union

WNV: Georges, what impact has the crisis had on migration in Europe so far?
Lemaitre: With the downturn, it is the free-movement migration which has gone down the most. These are workers who can come and go as they please, as they have the right to live and work in other EU countries, and it [...]

US Government to generate 10,000 megawatts of electricity for Nigeria by 2011

The United States government has pledged to help Nigeria generate 10,000 megawatts of electricity by 2011 in order to improve the country electricity power supply and mitigate the effect of climate change in Nigeria.

The US Ambassador to Nigeria, Ms Robin Sanders, signed a memorandum of understanding between the US government and the Independent Power Providers Association of Nigeria (IPPAN) to enable the smooth actualization of the 10, 000 megawatts.

Denmark should increase support for youth amid rising unemployment, says OECD

Denmark’s dynamic youth labour market and well-developed activation strategy have helped young people weather the current recession better than their peers in most OECD countries. But youth unemployment is still rising and Denmark should scale up recent initiatives to help disadvantaged youth and extend activation rules to cover more young Danes, according to a new OECD report.

W. Bush and Tony Blair mandate Nigeria to make the 2011 General Election Free and Fair

By: Victor Ulasi, Nigeria
The Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former United States President George W. Bush mandated the Nigerian Government to make the 2011 general elections free and fair and must replicate the wishes of the electorate.
They said for Nigeria to have steady democracy the country allow transparency and free election, rule of [...]

Nigerian police investigator murdered in cold blood

A Nigerian Police investigator, Danjuma Mohammed who works for the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has been shot dead in the abdomen by unknown gunmen in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, Abuja at the front of his newly rented home.

12 Nigerian Family Members Die in House Fire

An eight-day-old baby has survived a fire which claimed the lives of four women and eight children from the family of Alhaji Ahmed Kabiru at Chiranchin Gabas quarters in Kumbototso Local Government Area of Kano state, Nigeria.

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