At least 9000 flee northern Nigeria violence

Fox News - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Nigerian refugee women and children in Gance in northern Cameroon on May 25. At least 9,000 people have fled violence in northern Nigeria and crossed into neighbouring countries as a government offensive aims to end a four-year Islamist insurgency, the UN said on ...

War on terrorism Jonathan calls for more international co-operation

Vanguard - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

AbujaPresident Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja on Tuesday called for greater global co-operation and co-ordination in the war against terrorism. Jonathan made the call while receiving the new ambassadors of Israel, Russia, Greece, Algeria and Senegal who presented their letters of credence to him during separate visits to the Presidential Villa. He said Nigeria and other countries would benefit ...

Marriage crashes over husband’s inability to satisfy wife in bed

Vanguard - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Lagos -An Agege Customary Court in Lagos on Tuesday dissolved a seven-year-old marriage of an office assistant who said that her husband was unable to satisfy in bed. The Court President, Mr Emmanuel Sokunle, held that evidence before the court showed the marriage of Mr Maxwell Madu and Grace, had broken down irretrievably. He noted that the petitioner, grace insisted on divorce. ...

88 sickle-cell patients died in Bauchi

Vanguard - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

By Suzan Edeh Bauchi-No fewer than 88 sickle-cell sufferers in Bauchi State have died between January and June this year alone. The Chairman of Sickle Cell Anaemia Association of Nigeria, Bauchi Chapter, Hajara Sani disclosed this to newsmen Tuesday in Bauchi. Hajara Sani lamented that the disease was claiming lives at an alarming rate in the state, calling the urgent attention of government ...

Islamic militants drive 19000 rice farmers off land in northeast Nigeria

CBS News - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria Islamic militants have driven 19,000 rice farmers from their land in northeast Nigeria while a military crackdown is preventing thousands more from working their fields, raising fears of imminent food shortages, officials warned Tuesday. Food shortages would add immeasurably to the misery in northeast Nigeria. The area abandoned by farmers is a fertile one in the semi-arid ...

Sure-P to Provide Internet Service to Rural Areas in Adamawa

All Africa - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

The Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) is to provide Internet facilities in all the 266 wards in Adamawa. This is to enable people at the grassroots have access to its various empowerment programmes. Alhaji Yunusa Belel, Adamawa Coordinator of SURE-P, disclosed this to newsmen in Yola on Tuesday. He said talks were on with GSM providers on ways SURE-P would collaborate ...

Bauchi Lawmaker Worries Over Harassment of Residents By Horses

All Africa - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

A member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Ilyasu Zwall, has called for the enforcement of the law regulating the use of horses in major cities of the state, to end the harassment of residents by horse riders. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the "Ceremonial Horse Riding (Restriction) Law 2012", was assented to by Gov. Isa Yuguda on August 28, 2012. Zwall, who ...

NE Nigeria Insecurity Sees Refugee Outflows Spreading to Cameroon

All Africa - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at the press briefing, on 18 June 2013, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. With the on-going crisis in north-eastern Nigeria's Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe States, UNHCR offices are reporting refugee arrivals in Niger, and now in Cameroon too. In Cameroon, a UNHCR team visited ...

UPDATE 1-Chevron selling three more Nigerian oil blocks

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:43am EDT * Chevron selling five Nigerian blocks in total * Stake in reserves around 200-250 million oil barrels * Nigerian firms, partnered with foreign firms, to bid ABUJA, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. energy firm Chevron is selling three more Nigerian oil blocks, the company said on Tuesday, taking to five the number of assets it is selling in Africa's biggest oil ...

UPDATE 2-Chevron is latest oil major to scale back in Nigeria

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:31am EDT * Chevron selling five Nigerian blocks in total * Stake in reserves around 200-250 million oil barrels * Nigerian firms, partnered with foreign firms, to bid By Joe Brock ABUJA, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S.-based Chevron Corp is selling five Nigerian shallow-water oil blocks, the company said on Tuesday, the latest oil major seeking to dispose of assets in Africa's ...

Vanguard Confab Teachers urged to report abuse cases in children

Vanguard - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

By Charles Mgbolu Mr Dosunmi Akeem, Officer, Ministry of Youth and Social Development, Lagos State has urged teachers in the state to report every case of abuse in children to relevant authorities as soon as it is revealed by victims. Mr Akeem who addressed teachers at the on-going Vanguard Children’s conference lashed out at teachers who do not take prompt action despite seeing visible ...

Vanguard holds annual child confab

Vanguard - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Vanguard Media Limited holds her 5th annual Children’s Conference, Tuesday, in Lagos with the theme Role of Teachers in Curbing Child ...

BNP Paribas to broker Chevron Nigeria oil sales -sources

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

ABUJA, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:12am EDT ABUJA, June 18 (Reuters) - French bank BNP Paribas is brokering the sale of five oil blocks that U.S. energy firm Chevron is selling in Nigeria, banking and oil industry sources told Reuters. BNP Paribas did not immediately respond to request for comment. Chevron is selling its 40 percent stake in oil mining leases 83, 85, 52, 53 and 55 to ...

President of the Nigerian Senate to visit China

Global Times - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

President of the Nigerian Senate David Mark will pay an official goodwill visit to China from June 19 to 22, according to a press release issued by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature.Mark is making the visit at the invitation of Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the Standing Committee of the ...

Protest rocks Delta community

Vanguard - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

By Godwin Oghre Saple -It was pandemoniumTuesday in Oghara, headquarters of Ethiope West Local Government Area, as youths numbering over 1000 went on rampage, protesting the arrest of one of their members, who they identified as Favour Ededdey, and who they refered to as a vibrant youth leader in the area. The protest which lasted for over 2 hours led to heavy traffic jam along major streets, ...

Lab Scientists Seek Legislation On Workplace Safety

All Africa - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Nigerian laboratory scientists have called for adequate legislation to regulate the practice of health and safety in the general working environment in the country. The scientists, under the aegis of Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, AMLSN, Lagos State Branch, called for creation of robust safety measures and consciousness in work places with a view to reducing work ...

Death Penalty Wont Stop Kidnapping - AjuyahDelta Attorney-General

All Africa - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Wednesday April 17, 2013, has gone down as the day members of the 29-member Delta State House of Assembly took the bull by the horns to override the veto of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan on the bill stipulating death penalty for kidnappers. The governor had since November 2012 when the bill was passed and sent to him refused to assent to the bill. The State Attorney-General and Commissioner for ...

NGF Crisis - Jang Fails to Win New Convert

All Africa - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Abuja - STRONG indications emerged yesterday that the reconciliation move by governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State to bring pro- Chibuike Amaechi to his camp may have failed. At the well publicised meeting of Jonah Jang led faction of the faction of the Nigeria Governors' Forum, NGF, the statuesque was maintained as fifteen governors and one deputy governor in attendance. Answering ...

Months After Chiedubem Thanks Gov Orji Vanguard Others

All Africa - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

IT is said that when a person shows gratitude for a good deed, he or she is likely to obtain another. This may have moved Abochi and Ngozi Tom to show gratitude for the good deed done to their son, Chiedubem - who was once a hole- in- the- heart patient, but has been completely cured. In a thank you message to Abia State Governor, Theodore Orji, all well-meaning Nigerians and Vanguard, the ...

Skye Bank Penya Barca in Strategic Partnership

All Africa - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

As part of its corporate social responsibility programme, Skye Bank Plc has partnered Penya Barca De Lagos Club, the official FC Barcelona Fans' Club in Nigeria and is now the official strategic partner of the club. Speaking at the inauguration of the club in Lagos recently, the bank's Executive Director, South South/Retail Banking, Mrs Ibiye Ekong, said the bank and the Barca ...

The Challenge of Gas Flaring

All Africa - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Gas flaring harms the environment and increases the misery of humans Whereas the nation reaps huge revenue from oil exploration, the converse side of it is that gas flaring, a concomitant effect of exploration activities, does a lot of damage to the environment. It involves burning off gas released by oil extraction-which sends plumes of toxic smoke into the air. It has been established beyond ...

Three Olympic Finalists Storm Calabar for Championships

All Africa - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

As many as three finalists from last year's 30th Olympic Games in London will be on parade this week at the 67th Cross River State/All Nigeria Open Athletics Championships scheduled to begin at the U.J Esuene Stadium in Calabar Wednesday. Top on the list of the finalists is reigning national 100m queen, Blessing Okagbare, who made it to the finals of the blue ribband event at the ...