Nigeria: 3 refineries closed due to sabotage

Nigeria's state-run oil company says that oil pipeline attacks have forced it to shut down three of its four refineries in the oil-rich West African nation

A spokesman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation said in a statement Thursday that its refineries in the cities of Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna had been shut down because "pipelines have been severed."

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Siasia begins work with standing Eagles team

Eagles coach, Samson Siasia has embarked on a drive to build a standing team made up of entirely home based players.
Siasia plans to invite selected players from the local league for a long camping exercise. And according to him, he hopes to raise a solid team of home based players that will give their European counterparts a run for their money in the national team.

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I f Am Elected There will be vacancy in Aso Rock in 2011 -Atiku

Ibrahim Babangida on Tuesday spoke of the possibility of him quitting the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) unless it adheres to the zoning principle, tacitly confirming media reports that he may defect to another party in his bid to return to Aso Rock, from where he stepped aside in August 1993.

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Obasanjo to Fayose: You are a bastard

‘You are also a bastard. In fact, you are a bastard father. You are a former president and I’m a former governor. You are not superior to me. If you think you can mess up anybody, not me. You deserve no respect anywhere, not even in Yorubaland. If you try me, I will deal with you’

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Ladoja’s ambition threatens anti-Akala ‘coalition’

EFFORTS by the gladiators in the Oyo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop the second term bid of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala in 2011 may be heading for the rocks.

Reason: The former governor of the Pacesetter State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, and a leading member of the group of elders in the coalition headed by Senator Lekan Balogun, is shunning all entreaties to drop his ambition to wrest power from the incumbent governor.

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N/Assembly is recklessly expensive, private sector operators

Nigerians are enraged over the huge salaries and pecks being paid to members of the National Assembly and other political office holders that has shown they are not in political offer to serve the nation but to milk it dry.

The amount paid as over head to members of the national assembly as admitted by the principal officers of the House of Representative and Senate is N140 billion, while the over head of running the government is N540 billion.

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Parties back Sanusi over Senate interrogation

The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) has urged the National Assembly to check itself and make correction upon the allegation of how its spending is affecting national growth, instead of threatening the Central Bank governor, Lamido Sanusi over his lecture comment,

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OANDO NIGERIA, EXISTING CAREER, SATURDAY

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Oando PLC is currently seeking a Procurement Officer to Support transaction planning and processing efforts to ensure all procurement activities are delivered in the most cost effective manner without compromising on quality and EHSQ standards, while meeting customer expectations for efficient and effective service delivery.

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Civilians flee army raids in Nigerian oil delta

WARRI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Fighting between the Nigerian military and armed gangs in the creeks of the oil-producing Niger Delta has killed several civilians and displaced dozens more, residents said on Friday.
A military taskforce (JTF) comprising the army, navy and air force began raiding three camps believed to belong to a notorious gang leader in Delta state on Thursday, close to the Ayakoromo and Okrika communities.

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PDP Plans To Destabilze Osun State!

There is a top-level plan by the PDP to make the Osun State ungovernable.
> Following the Court of Appeal decision in the case of Aregbesola v. Oyinlola which was delivered on Friday the 26th day of November, 2010, The PDP stalwarts in the South West held a meeting at Obasanjo Farms on Sunday, the 28th day of Nov. 2010 where it was decided that a state of anarchy would be unleashed on Osun State due to create room for the possibility of declaring a state of emergency.

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