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4 April, 2009 - 23:02 — AA Nigeria
Oil Firm Shuts Down Gas Plant -
Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell has shut down a gas plant in western Niger Delta, cutting national power supply by around 25 percent, to repair an illegally breached pipeline, a spokesman told foreign news service AFP yesterday. A report on their website said the 300-million-standard cubic feet Utorogu gas plant "was shut down on April 1st following a leak on the condensate line." [
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12 March, 2009 - 23:57 — AA Nigeria
Aviation Workers Threaten to Shut Down Airports -
Air transport workers under the aegis of the National Union of Air Transport Employees have threatened to make good their decision to close down all the country's airport facilities by Thursday next week should the management of Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) fail to implement agreements reached with the union. [
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9 March, 2009 - 23:12 — AA Nigeria
Economic Meltdown Will Rather Strengthen Economy - Prof Ekpo -
Though the current economic recession is doing harm to many countries' economies, a Nigerian economist and former vice chancellor of the University of Uyo, Professor Akpan Ekpo, has said the meltdown was some sort of acid test for Nigeria and might help the country to explore its potential and leap to greater heights. [
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15 February, 2009 - 07:25 — AA Nigeria
11 Years to 2020 - No Vision, No Plan, No Money -
Eleven years to go before the Year 2020, President Umaru Yar'adua's oft-re-peated promise to take Nigeria to the league of the world's 20 largest economies is but a pipedream with no articulated vision, no plan of action and no budgetary provision for its realisation. [
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15 February, 2009 - 07:24 — AA Nigeria
Re-Build Our Burnt Community, Inhabitants Cry Out -
SIX months after the August, 2008 invasion of Agge community in Bayelsa State by the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta, which said it was hunting for militants that attacked some soldiers in a military location in Delta State and vamoosed with their weapons, the people are yet to recover from the shock and devastation that was visited on them. [
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3 February, 2009 - 02:51 — AA Nigeria
Lagos And the Metaphor of Oshodi -
Something fresh and new seem to be happening in Lagos, that humming and rumbling urban jungle that is the commercial capital of Nigeria. Taxi drivers doing the Murtala Mohammed International Airport and the domestic terminal road, wax lyrical about the actions of their 2 years old Action Congress Governor Babatunde Fasola. [
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3 February, 2009 - 01:55 — AA Nigeria
Economy Nosedives -
As lawmakers preoccupy themselves with whether President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is on an illegal vacation or that Goodluck Jonathan is actually the acting president, the Nigerian economy is taking a precarious plunge down the abyss. [
Nigeria News : All Africa]
