Nigeria pays pensions of former Biafran leader
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Nigeria has paid the pensions of the former leader of the Biafran secessionist force and 63 rebels as part of efforts to heal wounds from the bloody civil war 40 year ago, officials said Tuesday.
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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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Kojo Annan, son of UN secretary general Kofi Annan, was paid $2,500 a month for over five years by a Swiss firm which had a contract under the UN&#39;s scandal ridden Iraqi &#39;oil for food&#39; program, report agencies.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- President Olusegun Obasanjo is clear about his plans after finishing his second term and overseeing the national election in April: He will retire to the pastoral life of a gentleman chicken farmer.
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Ghana's greed A Nigerian national who had been living in Canada was taken into custody by Winnipeg police in connection with a West African email scam alleged to have bilked an 84-year old man of $30,000.â¦
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Mozambique's former President Joaquim Chissano, who brought peace and democracy to his country, won the first Mo Ibrahim Prize for achievement in African leadership.
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Nigeria's top corruption investigator said Tuesday that up to six former governors will be charged by the end of the year, a sign the country's new leadership is making good on pledges to stamp out graft in one of the world's most corrupt nations.
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President Ricardo Lagos on Sunday said he planned to compensate thousands of people who were imprisoned and tortured under the regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
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The Senate in Nigeria reportedly passes a motion requiring Shell's operation in the country to pay $1.5bn in compensation to oilfield communities.
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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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Adams Oshiomhole, the president of Nigeria&#39;s main union body, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), is missing. He was picked up by secret police at the airport of the capital, Abuja, early on Saturday.
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Mozambique's former president Joaquim Chissano, who brought peace and democracy to his country, won the first Mo Ibrahim Prize Monday for achievement in African leadership
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Nigeria agrees a deal for US investment bank Merrill Lynch to take on most of its $500m debt.
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SANTIAGO -- Chilean President Ricardo Lagos yesterday announced compensation for thousands of victims of illegal imprisonment and torture during the dictatorship of Gen.
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LAGOS - Nigeria&#39;s Senate has passed a resolution asking Shell&#39;s Nigerian unit to pay $1.5 billion in compensation to oilfield communities for pollution, a Senate spokesman said.
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The former co-chairman of Santander Central Hispano, which has made an 8.32bn ( 12.3bn) agreed bid for Abbey National, receives an annual pension of 5m and also has use of an office and secretary.
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Nepalese Gurkha soldiers who have been fighting for Britain but receiving unequal retirement benefits since the days of the British Empire will finally receive the same pensions as the rest of the army, the government said Thursday.