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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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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Outgoing Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was set Tuesday to hand over power to the man he handpicked to succeed him, Umaru Yar&#39;Adua, who was a little-known governor of an obscure northern state.
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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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Manchester United chief executive David Gill has strongly defended payment of Â£5.5million to agents over the past 12 months. The extraordinary figure, which does not include a payment
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A Nigerian ex-state governor pleads not guilty to 103 counts of corruption and money-laundering.
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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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Mozambique's ex-President Joaquim Chissano wins the inaugural $5m Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria : The leader of rebels in Nigeria&#39;s Niger Delta, the hub of the country&#39;s oil wealth, where unrest sent world crude prices soaring this week, said his group had no quarrel with multinationals operating in the region.
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David Beckham's playing contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy is worth about $27.5 million in base salary over five seasons, according to a person familiar with Major League Soccer agreements.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Nigeria needs about $248 million to expand its anti-AIDS program and provide life-saving pills for 200,000 of its 3.5 million citizens infected with the virus, the country&#39;s health minister said Wednesday.
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ABUJA, Nigeria Sept. 29, 2004 - The leader of militia fighters threatening to widen a battle for control of Nigeria&#39;s oil-rich south said Wednesday he agreed to a tentative deal with President Olusegun Obasanjo
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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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NEW YORK  - The African Union can quickly mobilize 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 and so far it's received just &#36;20 million, says Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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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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One of Nigeria's main opposition leaders criticises his party's decision to join the government.
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The State Department's rewarding of one individual $5 million has received enough criticisms to warrant a reader vote.