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Check out fuel pump prices in other Oil producing Countries across the World…all prices in Naira. Below is the population of the countries: Venezuela: 29,105,632 Kuwait: 3,600,000 S/Arabia: 27,136,977 Iran: 78,000,000 Qatar: 1,699,435 UAE: 8,264,070 Algeria: 37,100,000 Libya: 6,423,000 Iraq: 30,399,572 NIGERIA: 167,000,000 Oman: 3,608,545 UK: 62,262,000 USA: 312,811,000

The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, on Friday ordered all doctors to join other Nigerians in the nationwide strike scheduled to begin on January 9, 2012 in protest against the removal of the subsidy on fuel by the Federal Government. Dr. Omede Idris, the President of the NMA, gave the directive at a news briefing in Abuja. He said the association ...

At least 17 people have been reported killed on Friday by gunmen who targeted a town hall in Mubi in north-eastern Nigeria, police say. Local residents told the BBC those killed were from the Igbo community from the south of the country. They had been meeting to organise how to transport the body of an Igbo man shot dead by ...

Cameroonians living in the border areas with Nigeria are counting losses following president Goodluck Jonathan’s recent declaration of state of emergency in some states of Northern Nigeria, and closing of the border between the two neighbouring countries. The move has affected prices of basic commodities in the areas especially as a result of higher petro prices and lack of supplies ...