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Nigeria: Shell completes oil leak clean up

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Outcry in Nigeria as fuel prices more than double and Transport Fares Soar

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Indian state turns corrupt officials' homes into schools

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Brazil Overtakes Britain as sixth-largest economy

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DFA wants deployment ban to Nigeria lifted

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Nigerian Senate Votes to End Deals With Rusal, Global Steel

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Nigerian Banks Climb for Fifth Day as Investors Look for Gains

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Bakrie plans to invest up to $1 billion in Nigeria

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Nigeria’s Naira Falls for Second Day on Dollar Demand Pressure

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Africa ECOWAS Peace Support Evaluation Exercise Ends In Accra

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Cotonou To Host Technical Meeting On Malaria Vector Control In The Ecowas Region

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The FRSC And Its Illegal Financial Burden On The Masses

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Oando Plc building a gas pipeline network in sub-Saharan Africa

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Absence of Appropriate Regulatory Framework may Undermine Public Private Partnership

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Portugal looks to Angola for bail out

[elombah.com] In a reversal of roles, Portugal's prime minister is travelling to oil-rich Angola, to ask for more investment from their former colony which is boosting its investment in its former colonial power caught up in the eurozone debt crisis. Angola's investments in Portugal have risen sharply in recent years. Angolan presidential aide Carlos Maria Feijo said Portugal's privatisation scheme would be discussed during the visit. The International Monetary

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Nigeria Naira Weakens on Concern Central Bank Won’t Defend Peg

[Bloomberg] Nigeria’s naira slipped against the dollar on speculation that the central bank won’t be able to defend its targeted trading range for the currency. The currency of Africa’s top oil producer retreated 0.1 percent to 158.75 per dollar as of 10:52 p.m. in Lagos, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The naira depreciated 0.6 percent last week, snapping two weeks of increases.

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Eurozone Economic Problems: A Challenge to the Global Economy

The evolutionary ideas for European Union were first conceived after the end of the devastating 2nd World War. The initial plan was to end the frequent and bloody wars and conflicts between European neighbors. Six countries were often credited as the original founding members, including Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. In 1957, the Treaty of Rome was signed leading to the creation of

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Nigeria’s new government: One and a half cheers for the economy, None for security - The Economist

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PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN recently invited a group of businessmen to a cattle ranch for a retreat to discuss how to generate faster economic growth. At one point he handed the assembled notables unmarked brown envelopes. Raised eyebrows rippled around the room. The president often castigates corruption. Yet he motioned for the tycoons to open the envelopes. Inside they found not cash but blank pieces of

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TOTAL Hits Oil Off Nigeria

Integrated oil and gas company TOTAL S.A. announced that its Nigerian subsidiary Total E&P Nigeria Ltd. (TEPNG) has made a second oil discovery at its Oil Mining Lease (“OML”) 102. The new find is located 65 kilometers (40.4 miles) off the southeastern coast of the country, about 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) southeast of the Ofon field. The Etisong North-1 well was spud at a total depth of 2,387 meters (7,831.4 ft) including water

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Sarkozy tells Obama Netanyahu is a "liar"

Sarkozy and Obama
Believing it's a private conversation, French President Nicolas Sarkozy branded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "a liar" in a private conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama, but he is  unaware that the microphones in their meeting room had been switched on, enabling reporters in a separate location to listen in to a simultaneous translation.

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Nigeria subsidy debate holds up Q4 gasoline imports

(Reuters) Nigeria's gasoline import allocations for the fourth quarter are being delayed as parliament debates the removal of subsidies and as gasoline held in offshore floating storage surges to record levels, trade sources said on Monday. Nigeria is Africa's top oil exporter but insufficient refining capacity means it relies on fuel imports, mostly gasoline, for up to 85 percent of its oil product needs.

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Oil Futures: Nigeria, Middle East Supply-Side Cues Boost Despite EU Fears

(Dow Jones) Crude-oil futures were slightly higher in Asia Tuesday as violence in Nigeria and potentially tight Middle Eastern supply offset mixed cues from regional equity markets jittery over Europe's debt crisis. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in December traded at $95.75 a barrel at 0731 GMT, up $0.23 in the Globex electronic session. December Brent crude on London's ICE

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Mystery of British woman linked to Gaddafi's doomed getaway

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When Gaddafi was captured and killed last month as he tried to escape the city of Sirte he was accompanied by South African mercenaries
A British woman working for a multinational oil company has revealed she was asked to recruit mercenaries to take part in an operation to rescue Muammar Gaddafi, it emerged today. Sarah Penfold, who is of Kenyan descent and works in security, claimed her brief was to round up a team of South African 'soldiers of fortune' as revolutionary forces closed in on the now-deceased Libyan tyrant, the Independent

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China Snubs euro bailout hopes: We will not be the saviours of Europe

German Chancellor, Angela Merkel
(German Chencellor, Angela Merkel broods over Euro woes) Brazil to overtake UK as sixth-largest economy
[elombah.com] China has dashed hopes of a bailout of the euro by saying it was not the ‘saviour’ of  Europe.  Though it expressed confidence that the continent can survive its crisis, Beijing has made no public offer to buy more government debt from western states. And as further sign of a shift in the tectonic plates of world economy, Brazil's economy is set to overtake

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