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 ... Read More


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 ... Read More


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 ... Read More


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


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


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 ... Read More


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 ... Read More



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