Archive for October, 2008
Friday 31st October 2008
Nitel asks foreign firms to fix key cable
President seeks stable 2009 spending
Nigeria cuts oil exports
President sacks half the cabinet
Multi-billion-dollar Chinese rail project suspended
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Cheat Sheet Week 44 2008
Monday 27 October 2008
Pirates hijack oil ship:
Gunmen in the Delta briefly seized the vessel Bourbon Ajax, contracted by Addax Petroleum on Saturday, taking 7 French and 10 Nigerians hostage.Related: A... Read More
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Thursday 30th October 2008
Yar’Adua sacks 20 Ministers
Shell’s power plant begins operation
125,000 bpd oil refinery to restart November
Court adjourns $45 billion tobacco lawsuit to January
Ribadu... Read More
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Wednesday 29th October 2008
Chevron trial begins
PENGASSAN strike grounds Chevron-Texaco management
Minister accuses foreign ships of violating cabotage law
Nigeria makes u turn on FIFA tournament
Etisalat plans... Read More
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Tuesday 28th October 2008
Nigeria set to eat into savings as oil price drops
Gov lifts 1% limit on downward stock moves
YRD canvasses African regional tax forum
Why we won’t hand over officials to EFCC –... Read More
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Monday 27th October 2008
Pirates hijack oil ship
Halliburton Scam – EFCC seeks clues from abroad
Nigeria halts 590,000 bpd on militant attacks
And then there’s this…
...The rest of this article... Read More
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Friday 24th October 2008
Court defers ruling on presidential vote
President submits 2008 supplementary budget
Anti-corruption czar criticizes immunity law
Two militants killed in Rivers
BBC spends N2.5b on... Read More
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Cheat Sheet Week 43 2008
Monday 20 October 2008
Yar’Adua in dilemma over new cabinet?:
President Yar’Adua still seems to be unable to decide on the long awaited cabinet reshuffle; leading to claims by newspapers that... Read More
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Thursday 23rd October 2008
Court to decide on presidential poll today
EFCC invites four top Bayelsa officials
Youths clash in Delta
Nigeria loses billions to urban decay
Reporter held since arrival in Nigeria... Read More
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Wednesday 22nd October 2008
Amnesty calls for moratorium on executions
Spending to fall, but economy sound: govt
Gunmen kidnap oil worker’s children
EU spends N11.6b in Niger Delta
Expat hostage released
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Tuesday 21st October 2008
FG cuts benchmark oil price
Absentee Governors – Why they love to travel
Nigeria earned $300bn from oil in 30 yrs
$510 Billion for infrastructure development – FG
Oil majors... Read More
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Monday 20th October 2008
Yar’Adua in dilemma over new cabinet?
Future of state oil firm fuels media frenzy
Plot to bring Atiku back?
Government & OPEC may clash over oil cut
Cameroon says pirates... Read More
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Cheat Sheet Week 42 2008
Monday 13 October 2008
5 Filipino seamen freed:
Five Filipino seamen kidnapped October 4th from the vessel M/T Aveiro were freed on October 8.
LNG says exports continue, denies media report of halt: Contrary... Read More
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Thursday 16th October 2008
Gunmen attack navy near Bonny
Police may withdraw officers attached to private persons
Niger Delta committee gets one week extension
Shell appeals Bonny land rights dispute
Unions threaten... Read More
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Wednesday 15th October 2008
N7 million ransom to release three kidnapped pupils
MEND shuns Niger Delta committee
Court orders Shell to forfeit oil terminal
Global crisis forces budget rethink
Nigeria to buy petrol... Read More
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Tuesday 14th October 2008
Government group in talks with militants
UN backs FG on oil bunkering
EFCC files on ex-governors missing
Julius Berger back to work in Rivers
Addax uses Nigeria navy staff to guard... Read More
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Monday 13th October 2008
5 Filipino seamen freed
LNG says exports continue, denies media report of halt
Nigeria wants Cameroon to share Bakassi security
Cholera kills 20 in north
And then there’s this…
...The... Read More
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Thursday 9th October 2008
MEND promises anarchy if…
Amaechi ‘spins’ security again
Nov crude exports seen 1.95 mbpd
Nigeria targets 4 million bpd by 2010
Minister says OPEC need to act to stop... Read More
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Wednesday 8th October 2008
Intel finance manager freed
Oil thieves are now armed robbers
Amaechi cuts short trip
Community threaten Agip
Union deadline for Chevron ends
Panel drafts sovereign wealth fund... Read More
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Tuesday 7th October 2008
OOL Breaking News
Rivers State N300 Million Scam
JTF in the dark – again
Military says has reduced delta oil theft
Niger Delta no-go area, says UN
EU gives conditions for... Read More
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Monday 6th October 2008
Pirates abduct Six Filipinos from oil vessel
MEND release 19 Nigerian hostages
Kidnapped Briton freed
Court insists on Henry Okah’s trial
Groups clash over land killing several
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Cheat Sheet Week 40 2008
Monday 29 September 2008
Troops kill Soboma George’s aides: At a roadblock search, set up to continue the clamp down on militants, two top commanders of Soboma George’s Outlaws were said to... Read More
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Friday 3rd October 2008
Refinery not disrupted says This Day
Chevron says Pennington production back to normal
French warship in Nigeria ‘to consolidate technical links’
FG to test free health care... Read More
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Thursday 2nd October 2008
Rivers urge militants to surrender arms
Bayelsa also reacts to militants
Chanomi Creek pipeline ruptured
Militants avoid arrest
YRD says $3.4 billion recovered in anti-graft drive
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Wednesday 1st October 2008
Militants say they are unaffected by mass arrests
No talks between Union and Chevron; strike may hold
Yar’Adua says economy is strong
Foreign funds cut Nigeria exposure, impact limited
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