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Nigeria's state-owned oil corporation to go private (Daily Telegraph)

Nigeria's state-owned National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has initiated talks with investment banks including Standard Chartered, JP Morgan, and Deutsche Bank to explore financing options as it changes into a fully privatised commercial company.

Godrej set to enter Nigeria (The Telegraph)

New Delhi, March 13 (PTI): FMCG firm Godrej Consumer Products today said it would buy Nigeria’s personal care brand Tura from the Tura Group for an undisclosed sum.

Pope denounces bloodshed in Nigeria (The Herald)

AFP. JOS, (Nigeria). Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday denounced the "atrocious" bloodshed in Nigeria after a massacre of Christian villagers, as police said 49 people would be charged over the killings.

(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-13 11:38 India's Godrej Consumer Products buys Nigeria's Tura (Interactive Investor)

MUMBAI, March 13 (Reuters) - India's Godrej Consumer Products (GCP) on Saturday said it has agreed to buy personal care company Tura from Nigeria's Tura Group. The deal size was not disclosed, but GCP said Tura's current management team will continue to lead the business. "Tura helps us leapfrog in our endeavor to build a pan-African presence for our core categories such as personal wash and ...

(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-13 11:38 India's Godrej Consumer Products buys Nigeria's Tura (Interactive Investor)

MUMBAI, March 13 (Reuters) - India's Godrej Consumer Products (GCP) on Saturday said it has agreed to buy personal care company Tura from Nigeria's Tura Group. The deal size was not disclosed, but GCP said Tura's current management team will continue to lead the business. "Tura helps us leapfrog in our endeavor to build a pan-African presence for our core categories such as personal wash and ...

India's Godrej Consumer Products buys Nigeria's Tura (Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News)

MUMBAI, March 13 (Reuters) - India's Godrej Consumer Products (GCP) on Saturday said it has agreed to buy personal care company Tura from Nigeria's Tura Group.

India's Godrej Consumer Products buys Nigeria's Tura (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

MUMBAI, March 13 (Reuters) - India's Godrej Consumer Products (GCP) on Saturday said it has agreed to buy personal care company Tura from Nigeria's Tura Group.

Nigeria plane crashes during mock rescue exercise (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News)

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - A Nigerian plane carrying more than 30 disaster response officials crashed on Friday in the oil hub of Port Harcourt in what was supposed to be a mock rescue exercise, but there were only a few minor injuries.

Nigeria plane crashes during mock rescue exercise (AlertNet)

Source: Reuters PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, March 13 (Reuters) - A Nigerian plane carrying more than 30 disaster response officials crashed on Friday in the oil hub of Port Harcourt in what was supposed to be a mock ...

Welwyn Garden City consultant to set up hospital in Nigeria (The Welwyn & Hatfield Times)

A DOCTOR based at the QE2 Hospital in WGC is to spend a year in Africa setting up a state-of-the-art hospital. Sigmund Wilkey, a consultant in the hospital’s A&E Department, will spend 12 months helping to develop an emergency department at the Delta State University Hospital (DELSUTH) in Nigeria.

Pope denounces bloodshed in Nigeria (The Herald)

JOS, (Nigeria). Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday denounced the "atrocious" bloodshed in Nigeria after a massacre of Christian villagers, as police said 49 people would be charged over the killings.

Will Nigeria survive? (Trinidad Express)

There are notable differences between Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, and Umaru Yar’Adua, the current president (more or less) of Nigeria. For one thing, Yar’Adua did not found the League of Nations or win the Nobel Peace Prize, whereas Wilson did.

Nigeria: Court Nullifies Dangote's Election as NSE President (AllAfrica.com)

The Federal High Court is the only remedy to straighten out the disgrace that the legal practioners had created in Nigeria.

Fire razes Nigeria's largest textile market (Press TV)

Three people have been killed and hundreds injured in a fire that destroyed Nigeria's largest textile market, incurring a loss valued at billions of naira, traders said on Friday.

200 arrested after Nigeria massacre (BPNews.net)

JOS, Nigeria (BP)--Police in central Nigeria have arrested about 200 people following the March 7 massacre in which as many as 500 Christians were murdered in nighttime raids by ethnic Fulani Muslims.