Nigeria's new leader 'worth $5m'
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Nigeria's new President Umaru Yar'Adua publicly declares his assets, in an effort to combat corruption.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo spoke to his annointed successor live on television on Wednesday in an effort to dispel rumours that Umaru Yar'Adua had died.
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The president of this West African country appeared to have a strong lead in the election Tuesday, garnering more than half the votes counted.
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Umaru Yar&#39;Adua takes office as president  of Nigeria on Tuesday, inheriting a catalogue of crises  compounded by doubts over his own legitimacy after a flawed  election.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- Nigeria's new president, Umaru Yar'Adua, was sworn in yesterday, pledging to be a humble "servant-leader" and to reform the electoral process to prevent future fraud, after the elections he won last month were widely condemned by international and local observers.
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NIGERIA LAGOS -- The Nigerian government yesterday disclosed a foiled coup plot, charging four military officers and a civilian with conspiring to topple the government by shooting down a helicopter carrying President Olusegun Obasanjo. Major Hamza al-Mustapha, former chief of personal security to the late military dictator General Sani Abacha, and four others, were each charged with two counts of ...
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Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo says he earns $250,000-a-month from his chicken farm.
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An Australian man whose international email scam stripped A$5 million ($5.48 million) from his victims has been jailed in a continuing global war against Nigerian internet frauds.
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NIGERIAâS senate is reportedly to ask a Shell division to pay $1.5 billion (Â£835 million) compensation to oilfield communities for environmental damage.
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Nigeria agrees a deal to clear most of its $500m debt to the London Club for a "clean start".
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Threats against foreign oil workers have brought the Nigerian government to the negotiating table with the self-styled Nigerian warlord Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, whose band of 2,000 poorly
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The head of Nigeria's ruling party launched an unprecedented attack on President Olusegun Obasanjo in a letter published on Saturday, warning him that his government was unpopular and heading for collapse.
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Adams Oshiomhole, the head of Nigeria's main union body, is said to have been freed after his arrest on Saturday.
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The African Union can quickly mobilise up to 5,000 troops to help end the looting and killing in western Sudan, but it needs hundreds of millions of dollars to deploy the force, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has said.
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Nigeria's ex-military ruler Gen Babangida, a leading candidate in next year's polls, says he is proud of his time in office.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 29 -- New Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua vowed in his inaugural address Tuesday to work urgently to quell rising violence in the volatile Niger Delta, a major source of oil exports to the United States.
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Subsidising cheap fuel costs the government in Abuja more than $2bn (Â£1.25bn) a year - and President Olusegun Obasanjo has spent much of his second term in power trying to get rid of that subsidy.