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Winnipeg Free Press - May 15, 2009

Conference Looks for Ways to Aid Nigeria

"For a country like Nigeria -- one of the largest economies in west Africa -- we don't have a reliable and affordable supply of electricity," said conference spokesman Ed Onyebuchi. "It's a critical problem for Nigeria...It affects every average Nigerian." He said Manitoba Hydro has had someone working in the nation of 150 million people since 2002. "Why talk about 2020 when people are starving in 2009? You can't even get a doctor in a Nigerian hospital," said Okwudili, who visited Nigeria la...

Winnipeg Free Press - January 05, 2008

Around the World

U.S. President George W. Bush says he's optimistic that Israelis and Palestinians can reach a peace deal before he leaves office in a year's time. ABUJA, Nigeria -- The main militant group in Nigeria's oil country is threatening a "bloody fight" in the new year. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, says in an e-mail statement that its "goal remains to paralyze 100 per cent of Nigeria's oil export in one swipe."

Winnipeg Free Press - June 30, 2008

Oil Bottleneck Alarms Leaders

With production declining elsewhere, consumer nations had been looking hopefully toward Nigeria. But rebels who have waged an increasingly bold campaign in the oil-rich Niger Delta have slashed the country's output in their most recent attacks. Nigeria's petroleum infrastructure is threatened by militias motivated by anger that the country's leadership and international oil companies were not sharing the oil wealth with the impoverished residents of the Niger Delta. The effects of the conflic...

Winnipeg Free Press - January 03, 2008

Crude Oil Prices Reach Record High

Violence in Nigeria helped give crude the final push to $100. Bands of armed men invaded Port Harcourt, the centre of Nigeria's oil industry Tuesday, attacking two police stations and raiding the lobby of a major hotel. Word that several Mexican oil export ports were closed due to rough weather added to the gains, as did a report that OPEC may not be able to meet its share of global oil demand by 2024. "These prices have been rising for a number of years now. There's very little difference be...

Winnipeg Free Press - February 18, 2009

Con Man Kept in Jail Awaiting Deportation

[Alonge Owolabi]'s bid was rejected after the board ruled he posed a serious "flight risk" and would likely disappear if granted his freedom. He will remain in custody until his flight back to Nigeria can be arranged, which is expected to happen in the first week of March. The victim called police after he was asked for more money, and Owolabi was arrested after he flew to Winnipeg from Toronto to meet the victim and collect another payment of $7,800.

Winnipeg Free Press - December 29, 2009

Skirmish in the 'War On Terror'

11Among the 278 people aboard the plane was a young Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, an alleged Islamist fanatic and a self-confessed associate of al-Qaida in Yemen, who had a bomb hidden in his underpants. He had escaped detection by airport screening in Nigeria, where he had begun his trip, and again at the airport in Amsterdam where he boarded the flight to Detroit. Western and Yemeni security officials cannot or will not affirm Mr. Abdulmutallab's connections to al-Qaida in Yemen,...

Canadian-American Public Policy - Nbr. 2007, January 2007

Divergent campaigns towards global health governance: Canadian and U.S. approaches to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic Jeffrey Ayres Patricia Siplon.

... Yet the message, played out in newspapers around the world, was that the United States ......" James Glassman delivered a similar message in Newsday accusing activists of "imperiling millions of ...

Winnipeg Free Press - April 20, 2009

The World

The captive, Robin Hughes, was handed over to military officials in Nigeria's southern oil region, said the official, Sarkin Bello. He told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that he had no immediate information about Hughes' condition, or whether a ransom had been paid. Earlier Sunday, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta militants said in an email to The AP that they would free Hughes "very soon," due to the man's poor health. [Rafiki Hariri] was killed in a truck...

Winnipeg Free Press - December 30, 2007

Gunners Get Ammo From Eduardo

[Tim Cahill] and Ayegbeni Yakubu both attacked Mikel Arteta's corner kick into the area, with the Nigeria striker getting to it first with his head and Cahill making a second, final touch with his boot. Arsenal's Nicklas Bendtner was dismissed for a second yellow card in the 74th, and Arteta got a red card after his arm caught Cesc Fabregas in the face in the 84th. "We're human beings and you can't expect us to be perfect all the time," United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said. "They struggled t...