International Business News - Nigeria http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A federal jury on Monday cleared Chevron Corp. of responsibility for any human rights abuses during a violent protest on a company oil platform in Nigeria a decade ago. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081201/federal-jury-clears-chevron-of-nigeria-abuses.htm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:00:15 EST Iki Atsen told the women in his family to flee and grabbed an ax as a man with a bullhorn urged 100 Muslim men to storm Atsen's Christian homestead and kill all nonbelievers. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/186787-nigeria-clashes.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081201/deadly-nigerian-riots-tied-to-rifts-over-election.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081201/deadly-nigerian-riots-tied-to-rifts-over-election.htm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:29:58 EST After two days of mob violence, an uneasy calm returned Sunday to this central Nigerian town. Women with plastic buckets ventured out in search of water and many of the dead were buried. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081130/calm-returns-to-nigerian-city-after-deadly-clashes.htm Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:44:41 EST Mobs burned homes, churches and mosques Saturday in a second day of riots, as the death toll rose to more than 300 in the worst sectarian violence in Africa's most populous nation in years. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081129/20-more-bodies-in-postelection-violence-in-nigeria.htm Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:47:31 EST Clashes broke out in a flashpoint Nigerian city after the first elections in a decade, leaving at least 15 people dead and prompting the president to send troops into the streets Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081128/deadly-clashes-erupt-in-nigerian-city.htm Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:32:15 EST Teething formula tainted with a toxic thickening agent has killed 25 children in Nigeria, prompting regulators to yank it from shelves and shut down its manufacturer, officials said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/nigeria-bans-teething-drug-after-25-children-die.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:51:03 EST Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry says a Bulgarian worker has been kidnapped in Nigeria. Ministry spokesman Dragovest Goranov said on Friday that the worker had been kidnapped the previous day and that he was the employee of a foreign company in Nigeria. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/bulgarian-worker-kidnapped-in-nigeria.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:28:05 EST Nigeria's military has arrested 22 Filipinos on suspicion of stealing thousands of tons of crude oil, officials said Saturday. The men were arrested late Friday on their vessel as it left a channel and headed toward open water off the coast of the oil-producing state of Delta in southern Nigeria, regional army spokesman Lt. Col. Rabe Abubaker said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081115/22-filipinos-arrested-in-nigeria-over-oil-theft.htm Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:37:41 EST A Nigerian communications satellite built and launched by China has been knocked out of service due to a power failure, a spokeswoman for China's launch services provider said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081113/nigerian-satellite-launched-by-china-loses-power.htm Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:08:08 EST The military said it killed eight militants as it repulsed an attack Monday at an oil-industry installation in lawless southern Nigeria, while the main militant group said it released a Ukrainian hostage and three Nigerian captives. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/nigerian-militants-announce-hostage-release.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:08:21 EST An environmentalist group and four Nigerians filed suit against Royal Dutch Shell PLC in the Netherlands on Friday, claiming the company was negligent in cleaning up oil spills in Nigeria. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/170261-netherlands-nigeria.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081107/nigerians-file-suit-against-shell-in-dutch-court.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081107/nigerians-file-suit-against-shell-in-dutch-court.htm Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:12:11 EST A military spokesman says unidentified gunmen have kidnapped a Lebanese construction worker in Nigeria's restive southern oil region. Lt. Col. Sagir Musa of the military task force in the Niger Delta region said the worker was snatched Monday morning from the road project he was working on outside the city of Port Harcourt. Musa had no further details. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081103/military-foreign-oil-worker-snatched-in-nigeria.htm Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:39:25 EST Nigeria is reducing its crude oil export volume by 5 percent in line with new quotas announced by OPEC, the state oil company said Thursday. A statement by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation said that November and December exports would be reduced and that other individual cargoes had also been cancelled for those months. No further details were given. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081030/nigeria-cuts-oil-exports.htm Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:20:28 EDT Amnesty International says that dozens of condemned prisoners awaiting execution in Nigeria haven't been able to appeal their death sentences and others have been denied access to adequate legal representation. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081021/dozens-on-death-row-denied-right-of-appeal.htm Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:18:55 EDT The Emir of Kano strolls regally along the red carpet with a silver-tipped staff and a jeweled turban that looks like a disco ball, as commoners bow and scrape in his wake. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081019/emirs-still-hold-power-in-nigeria.htm Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:52:33 EDT Thousands of Afrobeat enthusiasts danced through the night in a cavernous warehouse to celebrate what would have been the 70th birthday of late Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/155415-nigeria-felabration.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081019/nigerians-celebrate-late-afrobeat-legend-fela-kuti.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081019/nigerians-celebrate-late-afrobeat-legend-fela-kuti.htm Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:37:46 EDT Victims of the Nigerian government's violent 1990s-era crackdown on residents of oil-rich lands where Royal Dutch Shell had drilling operations may finally reach their goal to challenge the deaths and injuries in a U.S. court. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/nyc-trial-date-for-claims-against-shell.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:09:14 EDT A February date has been set for a trial of racketeering claims accusing Royal Dutch Shell PLC of being complicit in decisions by Nigeria's military government to hang oil industry opponents. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/new-york-city-trial-date-for-claims-against-shell.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:14:11 EDT Nigeria's president says $3.4 billion has been recovered in an anti-graft campaign he launched on coming to power last year. President Umaru Yar'Adua was elected in May 2007 with a promise to tackle corruption in a nation regularly rated among the world's most corrupt. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/nigeria-says-3-4b-found-in-anti-graft-drive.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:35:14 EDT Nigeria's main militant group declared a ceasefire in the southern oil region on Sunday, ending the worst spate of militant attacks in years to hit Africa's oil giant. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080921/militants-declare-ceasefire-in-nigerias-south.htm Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:09:27 EDT