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Niger discusses collaboration with Nigeria on digital switch over
2017-06-12 15:10:48| Digital TV News
Nigeria and other ECOWAS Member Countries have agreed to adopt a Common Minimum Standard for Set-Top-Boxes in the Sub-Region, meaning that STBs manufactured in Nigeria can also be available for use in all the ECOWAS Countries.
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Grants of US$1 Million to Promote Green Mini-Grids in Niger
2016-08-10 17:50:00| Transmission & Distribution World
In July 2016, the Republic of Niger was awarded a US $994,270 grant from the African Development Bank-hosted Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa read more
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Niger Delta Avengers promise to up pipeline attacks in Nigeria
2016-05-28 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: The Niger Delta Avengers have attacked again. After community leaders expressed support for the militants' third attack this month in the oil-rich but desperately poor region, fears grow that oil production will suffer. The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) claimed responsibility on Friday for an attack on a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline that took place on Thursday near Warri in the southern state. The bomb attack forced US-based oil major Chevron to put its onshore activities...
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Militants attack Enis Agip pipeline in Nigeria's Niger Delta
2016-05-19 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
A gas pipeline owned by Italian company Enis subsidiary Nigerian Agip Oil was blown up by unknown militants in Nigeria's Niger Delta.
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Anger over enduring 'environmental horror' in oil-rich, polluted Niger delta
2015-11-09 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Communities in the oil-rich region of Ogoniland say they feel just as marginalised and in need of work and development as they were before the executions of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other chiefs in November 1995. The executions, which followed a kangaroo court that allowed no appeal, followed a peaceful uprising by 300,000 Ogonis against Shells widespread pollution in Ogoniland. They focused worldwide attention on the small 1,050 sq km region where the Nigerian oil industry first developed in the...
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