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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Nigeria's ruling party on Sunday chose a Muslim from the north as its candidate for presidential elections that will mark the first transfer of power between elected governments since Nigeria's independence in 1960.
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Nigerian MPs probing a $5m spending spree by the new speaker say she broke the rules.
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The Nigerian president leads new efforts  to stamp out polio as part of a big campaign planned for the region.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has appointed a special adviser on the volatile oil-rich Niger delta, amid a spate of kidnappings of foreign oil workers in the region.
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David Beckham has a personal fortune of Â£87m - Â£50m more than British football's next biggest earner.
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Nigeria's ruling party presidential candidate, Umaru Yar'Adua, says he is well enough to run in April's polls.
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Shell, the beleaguered oil giant, has been asked by Nigeria&#39;s Senate to pay $1.5bn (Â£830m) compensation to communities affected by oil pollution in the country.
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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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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair will be paid $5m a year for his part-time post at JP Morgan, the BBC learns.
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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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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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KATSINA, Nigeria  - The poor farmers, camel herders and market traders of far northern Katsina state give their governor credit for new roads and schools but few are so impressed that they want him to be Nigeria's next president.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 29 -- Nigeria's new president, Umaru Yar'Adua, pledged 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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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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Umaru Yar'Adua took office as president of Nigeria on Tuesday, promising to tackle a catalogue of crises in Africa's most populous nation and conceding that his own election was "not perfect".
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Umaru Yar'Adua took office as president of Nigeria on Tuesday, inheriting a catalogue of crises compounded by doubts over his own legitimacy after a flawed election.