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	<title>Crikey &#187; Nigeria</title>
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		<title>Goodluck, Nigeria: democracy and disunion in west Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/19/democracy-and-disunion-in-nigeria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/19/democracy-and-disunion-in-nigeria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ivory Coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivory Coast protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This may be setting the bar fairly low, but west Africa has been getting more news coverage than usual this year. ]]></description>
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		<title>Ivory Coast double: a country with two presidents</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/20/ivory-coast-double-a-country-with-two-presidents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/20/ivory-coast-double-a-country-with-two-presidents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[benin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Djibouti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivory Coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[niger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ivory Coast now has two governments, writes <b>Rafiq Copeland</b>, a freelance writer in northern Africa.]]></description>
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		<title>WikiLeaks cable: Shell staff posted throughout Nigerian government</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/09/wikileaks-cable-shell-staff-posted-throughout-nigerian-government-shell-australia-chief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/09/wikileaks-cable-shell-staff-posted-throughout-nigerian-government-shell-australia-chief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Cowie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ann Pickard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikileaks Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WikiLeaks news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shell Australia chairman Ann Pickard once claimed to the US government that the oil giant had staff posted throughout Nigerian government ministries, ensuring they could keeping tabs on regulation in the oil-rich nation, a cable released by WikiLeaks says today.]]></description>
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		<title>US oil spill a disaster &#8212; but more oil is spilt in Nigeria every year</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/01/us-oil-spill-a-disaster-but-more-oil-is-spilt-in-nigeria-every-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/01/us-oil-spill-a-disaster-but-more-oil-is-spilt-in-nigeria-every-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil drilling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil spills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One small positive that may come out of the Deepwater Horizon spill is the slender beam of reflected light cast on the fascinating, tragic story of oil drilling in the Niger Delta, writes <b>Rafiq Copeland</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria&#8217;s Next: a paper that can&#8217;t afford to die</title>
		<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phillip-van-niekerk/why-the-developing-world_b_565815.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phillip-van-niekerk/why-the-developing-world_b_565815.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 02:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Next]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New Nigerian newspaper <em>Next</em> made its mark earlier this year by daring to reveal that the country's president was brain dead, and has been under heavy government attack ever since. Now it can't afford to stay open -- but can Nigeria afford for it to close?]]></description>
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		<title>Fiji no longer the &#8216;bula-bula-happy-clappy land&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://discombobulatedbubu.blogspot.com/2009/08/stench-from-behind-tapa-curtain-na-i.html</link>
		<comments>http://discombobulatedbubu.blogspot.com/2009/08/stench-from-behind-tapa-curtain-na-i.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Bainimarama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=82019</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Post Fiji's 2006 military coup, the economy is collapsing, morale is low and leadership is a mess. "Fiji is on the same path that Burma and Zimbabwe and Nigeria went down", writes <b>discombobulated</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>The Nigerian scammers become the scammed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/20/the-nigerian-scammers-become-the-scammed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/20/the-nigerian-scammers-become-the-scammed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Bank of Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Someone may have been fleecing some of Nigeria's biggest banks, pushing the country's financial system to the edge of collapse.
]]></description>
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		<title>Dreaming of a Niger Delta Republic</title>
		<link>http://allafrica.com/stories/200907290366.html</link>
		<comments>http://allafrica.com/stories/200907290366.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[op-eds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self determination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst the nightmare of bloody violence in Nigeria, <b>Sonnie Ekwowusi</b> dreams of an independent Niger Delta, a republic where those indigenous to the area are afforded the right self-determination. ]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria: Behind the bloodshed</title>
		<link>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gESqB9ANbJNUSO0PWep5V39NxbmwD99NJD7G2</link>
		<comments>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gESqB9ANbJNUSO0PWep5V39NxbmwD99NJD7G2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islamic extremism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Four days of violence in Nigeria has left 200 dead and sent 4000 fleeing from their homes. Government forces are closing in on the rebels responsible, but the real root of the unrest lies in endemic problems in the Niger Delta, which won't be solved so easily. ]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Festac Town, email scam capital of Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/nigeria/090716/nigeria-email-scams</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/nigeria/090716/nigeria-email-scams#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aboriginal offenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[email]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[email scam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lagos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Dear Sir, I am a Nigerian prince..." you know the tune. And if you've received one (or, say, five billion) of these emails, chances are it came from a single town in Lagos, Nigeria.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shell pays off the Ogoni, but must still settle with history</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/12/shell-pays-off-the-ogoni-but-must-still-settle-with-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/12/shell-pays-off-the-ogoni-but-must-still-settle-with-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Saro-Wiwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ogoni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shell]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/12/shell-pays-off-the-ogoni-but-must-still-settle-with-history/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The claims of complicity by Shell in the death of Nigerian environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa were to be tested in a New York court. Instead, the oil company has offered a settlement of a $US15.5 "humanitarian gesture".]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hello Dearest,</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/11/first-dog-on-the-moon-333/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/11/first-dog-on-the-moon-333/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/11/first-dog-on-the-moon-333/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[...how was your night over there in your country and the day...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shell pays $15.5m over Saro-Wiwa death</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/08/nigeria-usa</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/08/nigeria-usa#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Saro-Wiwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shell has agreed to pay a settlement of $15.5m over the death of Nigerian environmental activist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995, after they allegedly provided the Nigerian army with vehicles, patrol boats and ammunition used in the killing.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The fight for Nigeria&#8217;s oil wealth</title>
		<link>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/nigeria/090521/nigerias-oil-curse</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/nigeria/090521/nigerias-oil-curse#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 05:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[piracy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=61288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nigeria's oil wealth is the cause of piracy, kidnappings and violence along the Niger Delta.]]></description>
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		<title>Shell goes to court over murder</title>
		<link>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/shell-on-trial-1690616.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/shell-on-trial-1690616.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 02:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Saro-Wiwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=61293</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oil giant Shell is headed to court, standing accused of complicity over the 1995 murder of environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. ]]></description>
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