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China   Delhi   Drugs   Kenya   Photos   		 The Times Of India 
Fake drugs reach Kenya now
Mon 6 Jul 2009
|               Text: NEW DELHI: The supply of fake drugs from China to the African sub-continent is not limited to Nigeria, it now appears. The Kenyan governme... (photo: WN / Dominic Canoy)
Shell CFO Peter Voser, left, and CEO Jeroen van der Veer, right, arrive for a press conference in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday Jan. 29, 2009.
Environment   Justice   Nigeria   Oil   Photos   		 The New York Times 
A New Chief at Shell, and a Rocky Inheritance
Mon 6 Jul 2009
| NEW YORK - Even as Jeroen van der Veer was preparing to pass the baton to Peter Voser, who took over as chief executive of the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell last Wednesday, the contentious legacy of t... (photo: AP / Fred Ernst)
An unidentified man stands near a gas flare belonging to the Agip Oil company in Idu Ogba, Niger Delta area of Nigeria, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006. OPEC and the European Union agreed in Vienna Wednesday to maintain a close "energy dialogue," stressing the importance of working together to help stabilize and secure the world's oil markets. Edmund Daukoru, Nigeria's oil minister and president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, met with Martin Bartenstein, the energy minister of Austria, which holds the EU's rotating presidency. In a statement, the EU presidency said both reaffirmed the need to stay in close touch on energy issues.  Modern Ghana  Sat 4 Jul 2009
Human Rights Tragedy in Niger Delta, Says Amnesty International
By Joe DeCapua, Washington D.CAmnesty International has issued a new report saying pollution has created a "human rights tragedy" in Nigeria's Niger Delta. | The report examines oil spills, gas flarin... (photo: AP / George Osodi)
Government   Niger   Oil   Photos   Tragedy  
Nigeria President Umaru Yar'Adua walks with South African President Thabo Mbeki, jsa1  Modern Ghana  Sat 4 Jul 2009
Adebiyi avails self as solution to Nigeria's energy crunch
…Says he attended same college with President Yar'Adua | Professor George Adebiyi is a seasoned University doyen in Mississippi State University (USA); his research interests largely focus on Solar/Re... (photo: AP / Schalk van Zuydam)
Democratic   Nigeria   Photos   President   University  
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** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY NOV. 2 AND THEREAFTER ** In this Nov. 10, 2007, file photo Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., listens to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. speak at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa. The Star Sat 4 Jul 2009
Obama's Africa visit prompts Nigerian, Kenyan angst

| LAGOS (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's choice of Ghana for his first official trip to Africa next week has triggered a bout of self-questioning in Nigeria and ... (photo: AP / Paul Sancya, File)
Kenya   Nigeria   Photos   Politics   US  
Workers walk by a line of pipe-laying cranes carrying gas pipes prior to a connection ceremony of a new pipeline between Ukhta and Bovanenkovo in Ukhta, in Russia's northern Yamal Peninsula, about 1300 kilometers (800 miles) northeast of Moscow, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008. Houston Chronicle Fri 3 Jul 2009
Natural gas line would connect Africa, Europe
| ABUJA, NIGERIA - Nigeria, Algeria and Niger have signed an agreement to create a $10 billion pipeline that would ship natural gas across the Sahara to Europe, Nigeria's... (photo: AP / Misha Japaridze)
Europe   Government   Photos   Pipeline   Sahara  
Oil Well - Oil Price /Wam2 All Africa Fri 3 Jul 2009
Loss of Oil Well - Cross River Senators, Reps Protest, Declare Hunger Strike
All three Senators and eight members of the House of Representatives from Cross River State yesterday declared a two week hunger strike to protest what they claimed as th... (photo: GFDL / )
Oil   Photos   Protest   Well  
Russia's Sudzha gas pumping station seen late Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009. Teams of EU monitors deployed Sunday at natural gas transit sites along Ukraine's vast pipeline network, but Russia appeared in no rush to restart sending gas to a freezing Europ The Guardian Fri 3 Jul 2009
Nigeria, Algeria agree to build Sahara gas link
(Adds background) By Randy Fabi ABUJA, July 3 (Reuters) - Nigeria, Algeria and Niger on Friday signed an agreement to build a multi-billion dollar gas pipeline across the... (photo: AP / Sergei Chuzavkov)
Gas   Nigeria   Photos   Pipeline   Sahara  
Tata Nano-ultrcheap car by Tata Motors-Automobile-India The Times Of India Fri 3 Jul 2009
Tata's Nano in Nigeria by 2010

| 3 Jul 2009, 1421 hrs IST, PTI               Text: ABUJA (NIGERIA): Tata Motors, India's largest auto maker, will introduce ... (photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam)
Automobile   India   Nigeria   Photos   Tata  
A Belarus worker on duty at a gas compressor station of the Yamal-Europe pipeline near Nesvizh, some 130 km (81 miles) southwest of the capital Minsk, Belarus, Friday, Dec. 29, 2006. Russia´s natural gas monopoly Gazprom has warned Belarus not to s BBC News Thu 2 Jul 2009
Nigaz name sparks racism debate
| A marketing blunder in Nigeria has got online communities all of a twitter, after a joint oil and gas venture with Russia was named Nigaz. | Russia's Gazprom and Nigeri... (photo: AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Gazprom   Nigaz   Nigeria   Photos   Venture  
Cuba's President Raul Castro, left, shakes hands with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during their meeting in Zavidova, some 120 kms (75miles) north of Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009. Russia's president is meeting with Cuban leader Raul Castro for informal talks and a walk in the woods at a government resort outside Moscow. Castro is on an eight-day visit as the Cold War allies seek to reinvigorate rel Independent online Thu 2 Jul 2009
 Nigerians take dim view of Nigaz gaffe
| Lagos - The Russian energy giant Gazprom has inadvertently walked into an online racism debate with the announcement of its new joint venture in Nigeria - Nigaz. | Russ... (photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Democratic   Photos   President   Russian   Washington  


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A man buys fuel on the black market in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday, June 7, 2006. Nigeria is Africa´s leading oil exporter and the United States´ fifth-largest supplier, usually exporting 2.5 million barrels daily. Militant attacks Audubon goes global with Nigerian office Business Journal
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