أفاد تقرير صادر عن المكتب الوطني النيجيري للإحصاء في نوفمبر إن قطاع النفط يساهم بنسبة 5.66 ٪ من إجمالي الناتج المحلي الإجمالي الحقيقي للبلاد.
ومن المتوقع أن يصل الناتج المحلي الإجمالي الحقيقي لنيجيريا إلى 574.3 مليار دولار في عام 2023 وأن يستمر في (...)
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted maintenance at oil and gas projects and refineries from Russia's Far East to the coast of Canada, storing up problems for an industry already reeling from slumping prices, analysts say.
Lockdowns to stop the (...)
A major Nigerian oil union has suspended planned industrial action after 21 Exxon Mobil Corp. employees quarantined last week after their arrest for violating coronavirus-related movement restrictions were freed, it said on Sunday.
The governor of (...)
Sixty people were killed after a fire broke out on Friday on an oil pipeline in the southeast of Nigeria, a spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Monday, up from the tally of 16 dead given by officials three days (...)
Twelve crew members of a Swiss merchant vessel kidnapped by pirates off the coast of Nigeria are from the Philippines, Slovenia, Ukraine, Romania, Croatia and Bosnia, the West African nation's maritime agency said on Sunday.
They were abducted on (...)
PORT HARCOURT, July 18, 2018 (News Wires) - Enyimba picked up their second win in Group C of the CAF Confederation Cup as they edged Williamsville AC 1-0 at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt on Wednesday afternoon.
The result sees the (...)
Nigerian defender Brian Idowu believed that playing for his club in Russia would see him passed over for a place in the national team for this year's World Cup, he told Reuters, after having made the provisional squad.
"I was only focusing on my (...)
In an interview with Al Borsa newspaper, Mohamed Hawary, GroFin's regional investment director for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), said that his company is looking to more than double its funding in Egypt to EGP 500m by the end of 2018.
He (...)
General Electric Co (GE.N) has proposed investing in Nigeria's oil refineries, potentially convening a consortium of companies to improve capacity at the run-down facilities.
GE's plan and similar promises from companies like Italy's Eni (ENI.MI) to (...)
Police say gunmen have kidnapped 15 oil workers near Nigeria's petroleum capital of Port Harcourt in the latest apparent hostage-for-ransom incident.
A police spokesman, Deputy Superintendent Nnamdi Omoni, said Saturday that all the abducted are (...)
Gabonese-import Fabrice Ondama scored a late winner to help Wydad Athletic Club to a 2-1 win over ASEC Mimosas on Sunday in Rabat and seal their place at the semis, together with Zambia's Zesco United, in the 2016 African Champions League.
In the (...)
Ahly, eight-time champions, made a poor start in the group stage of the African Champions League after losing 3-2 to Zesco United of Zambia on Saturday after a two-year absence from Levy Mwanawasa Stadium.
It was the first defeat for the Red Devils (...)
Zamalek opened their CAF Champions League group-stage campaign with victory for the first time since 2002, after edging out Nigeria's Enyimba 1-0 on an extremely waterlogged pitch away from home on Sunday.
A seventh-minute header from striker Bassem (...)
Egypt's national football team beat Burkina Faso 2-0 in their friendly at Alexandria's Borg Al-Arab Stadium on Saturday in their last warm-up game before their upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifying clash against Nigeria this month.
Abdullah (...)
A few hours after coach Sunday Oliseh quit his job as Nigeria manager, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) named Samson Siasia, Emmanuel Amuneke and Alloy Agu as head coaches of the senior national team for the upcoming 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (...)
The African Volleyball Qualifier held in Yaoundé, Cameroon concluded its events on Tuesday.
Despite the subsequent turn of events, the Egyptian women's volleyball team started off well, winning against Kenya in the semi-finals with scores of 25-22, (...)
A crude oil pipeline in Nigeria's southern state of Bayelsa operated by the local subsidiary of Italy's Eni was attacked on Thursday night, a state lawmaker told reporters on Saturday.
This is the second major attack on the OPEC member's (...)
The sight of an Ebola patient is frightening. Sharon Washington, an employee of Liberia's foreign ministry, got married in January this year at a colourful ceremony in the capital Monrovia. This writer attended the wedding. Later on, Mrs. Washington (...)
Continent heavyweights Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroun sealed a place in the final round of the African World Cup qualifiers after claiming positive results in the second leg of the second round on Tuesday.
Ghana defeated minnows Comoros 2-0 in Kumasi, (...)
Cameroon made it two wins out of two following another narrow 1-0 victory over Gambia, while CAN holders Ivory Coast failed to overcome minnows Sierra Leone away from home in the 2017 CAN qualifiers on Sunday.
A second-half goal from Porto striker (...)
Pastor Christian Lekova Kpanddei wears his camera like a weapon, slung over a T-shirt telling oil giant Shell to "Own Up. Pay Up. Clean Up".
He was a fish-farmer in the Ogoniland town of Bodo, in the oil-rich Niger Delta, before a rusty 55-year-old (...)
Gunmen shot dead a Nigerian soldier in an ambush in the southern oil hub of Port Harcourt on Saturday, the military said, as voters were casting their ballots across the country in a presidential election.
Brigadier-General K.A. Essien told (...)
Confusion and violence blighted Nigeria's tensest presidential election since the end of army rule, with the opposition rejecting results from a turbulent southern state even before they have been announced.
The opposition All Progressives Congress (...)
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysia government on Friday praised Nigeria and gave it “its highest appreciation and thanks to the Nigerian authorities and others for their efforts in securing the safe release of a Malaysian kidnapped in Nigeria on August (...)
LAGOS: A Nigerian journalist was attacked and assaulted on June 14 as the military and police present did not intervene, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Tuesday.
The New York-based press freedom organization called on Nigerian (...)