Africa

Nigeria: House Probe - Fresh Fraud Uncovered in Subsidy Payments

[Vanguard] Abuja - Fresh massive fraud in the subsidy payments on fuel and kerosene was, Thursday, unearthed in the on-going investigation on fuel subsidy regime.

Friday, February 10, 2012 ()

Nigeria: Militants Strikes, Hits Oil Pipeline -JTF Worried

[Daily Champion] Yenagoa - Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday said it has destroyed an oil pipeline in southern Nigeria, in its first attac

Friday, February 10, 2012 ()

Nigeria: BPE - Senate Report on OBJ Missing

[Daily Champion] The last may not have been heard on the alleged privatization scam under former president Olusegun Obasanjo as the report of the Senate on the exerc

Friday, February 10, 2012 ()

Nigeria: Onitsha Boils As Police Kills Bus Driver

[The Moment] THE commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, yesterday, erupted in rampage following the killing of a bus driver by a mobile policeman at a checkpoint

Friday, February 10, 2012 ()

Nigeria: NNPC, PPPRA, PPMC Don't Know Kerosene Price

[Daily Trust] The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) and Pipelines Products Marketing Company Limit

Friday, February 10, 2012 ()

Nigeria: 2011 Subsidy Fund Hits N2.25 Trillion

[Daily Trust] The amount of money expended by the Federal government on payments of subsidy on imported fuel last year is now well over N2.2 trillion, Daily Trust ca

Friday, February 10, 2012 ()

Africa: World Bank - Africa Losing Billions of Dollars to Trade Barriers

[This Day] A new World Bank report has disclosed that African countries are losing out on billions of dollars in potential trade earnings every year because of high

Friday, February 10, 2012 ()

Nigeria: Fuel Scarcity Looms - PPPRA

[Daily Trust] The Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Product Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) Reginald Stanley yesterday said there was looming scarcity of pe

Friday, February 10, 2012 ()

Nigeria: Subsidy Probe - House Uncovers Fresh Fraud, NNPC Indicted

[Leadership] As the curtains on the probe of the fuel subsidy management by the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee drop, the committee, has queried the Nigeri

Friday, February 10, 2012 ()

South Sudan: Govt Explores Pipeline Route Through Ethiopia and Djibouti

[Sudan Tribune] Juba - South Sudan on Thursday said it has started talks with the Djibouti government to build an alternative oil pipeline through Ethiopia and Djibou

Friday, February 10, 2012 ()

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