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Chinedu Ugoma stands near gas flare belonging to the Agip Oil company in Idu Ogba, Niger Delta area of Nigeria, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006. Politics of local refineries and Niger Delta's next battle front
Samuel Ese in Yenagoa writes that the challenge in the Niger Delta has shifted post-amnesty from that of militancy to the struggle for the protection of the people's thriving rudimentary method of... (photo: AP / George Osodi) Business Day Online

Niger Delta   Oil   Photos   Politics   Society
2007 Toyota Corolla (ZRE152R) Ultima sedan, photographed at the 2007 Australian International Motor Show, Darling Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. Nigeria’s car imports drop by 36% in 2009
•On account of inaccessible credit, rising exchange rate Vehicle imports into Nigeria slumped from 75,000 units in 2008 to 47,288 units in 2009, representing a 36 percent drop, due to rising exchange... (photo: Public Domain / OSX) Business Day Online
Car   Financial   Imports   Nigeria   Photos
Overview of petting zoo at Hacienda Panoaya in Amecameca State of Mexico in Mexico. Christmas Tree Forest is a park where visitors are able to cut their own Christmas tree with government permission and spend a day in the most beautiful park of the country Ghana’s president rejects Christmas gifts
•To show his stand on corruption President John Atta Mills surprised many corporate organisations and individuals who sent packages and hampers to his office this Christmas, with a formal... (photo: Creative Commons / Thelmadatter) Business Day Online
Christmas   Festival   Ghana   Photos   President
A law enforcement officer guards an entrance near the parked Northwest Airlines flight 253 plane, background, at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Mich., Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. A Primer in PETN
By RON WINSLOW PETN, the explosive that nearly doomed Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in Detroit on Christmas Day, is a white powder that can deliver powerful blasts in quantities as small as tenths or... (photo: AP / Carlos Osorio) Wall Street Journal

Airline   Intelligence   Photos   Terrorism   US
 A Northwest Airlines jet taxis towards a gate at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Mich., in this Aug. 10, 2006, file photo. Northwest Airlines is expected to announce quarterly earns on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file) aa Bomb suspect's teacher, family dismayed, shocked
December 27, 2009  JON GAMBRELL () LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian man who tried and failed to blow up a plane over Detroit "sneaked" into his native country the day before his botched Christmas... (photo: AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file) Newsday

AlQaeda   Lagos   Photos   Terrorism
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