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President Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria has spent over two weeks in Saudi Arabia and is said to have sought medical help in Jeddah. The problem is that it was unexpected and has been kept silent. 

In order to combat the spread of HIV in the state of Bauchi, Nigeria, officials have approved the matchmaking of HIV positive singles.

Nigeria won a silver and three bronzes at this years Beijing Olympics and finished 61st out of the 88 countries that won medals. Can we do better?

The Nigerian Military captured and detained an American Journalist named Andrew Berends, along with his interpreter on Sunday on suspicions of spying.

After being held for six days, the Israeli Businessman Ehud Avni was
released by his kidnappers, much to the relief of his family and
friends.

Forty-six Nigerian soldiers were killed in horrific car accident while returning from a peacekeeping intervention in Darfur. Their vehicle apparently collided with an oil tanker heavy with petroleum products and exploded into flames. Of the soldiers on the vehicle, five sustained less than fatal injuries and are being tended to in a hospital.

Disheartening recent findings have come from Nigeria‘s northern border with Niger. It seems that the porosity of the demarcation is allowing criminals, particularly human traffickers, to have easy access in and out of the country.

A project on a local road in Lagos took a turn for the worst, Thursday, as a bulldozer uprooted an oil pipeline, setting off a massive fire that left 39 people dead. Among the dead were school children. More people were either missing or injured, while, at least 16 buildings and over 20 make shift home were incensed. Some have estimated that the casualty count is around 100 people and some families were rendered homeless. The construction worker was working on the Ijegun - Iseri Osun - Jakande Estate, Isolo road.

The militants of the Niger Delta have boldly stated they would only participate in the proposed Niger Delta summit, providing that the Federal Government promises to implement its outcome.

Over the last few decades, advances in technology and medicine have given rise to the rapid population of our planet. This drastic increase in people, has in turn, created greater needs, as the laws of nature would suggest.