Saudi Arabia promised to increase output by 200,000 barrels to 9.7 million barrels a day. The Saudi's reassurances of supply increases put nary a dent in price of crude. Problems in Nigeria, where attacks last week on Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell pipelines knocked out 375,000 barrel a day of production, have negated the affects of the Saudi increase.

Another oil pipeline explosion has killed over 100 people in Lagos, Nigeria and left many others injured and homeless.

Researchers say measles, which has been successfully controlled in most countries thanks to vaccination, remains a killer disease in Niger, in part because of migration triggered by the rainy season. VOA's Jessica Berman reports from Washington health workers are calling for better surveillance and cooperation between public health workers and the government to control measles outbreaks.

A leader of Niger's Tuareg rebels is threatening an offensive against uranium mining operations in the country.

The indictment of a former Nigerian state governor has prompted President Umaru Yar’Adua to end the practice of sustaining legal immunity for acting governors. Mr. Yar’Adua has pledged what he calls zero tolerance for corruption since taking office.

AS Nigerians continue to rue the dismal performance of the Super Eagles in the on-going Africa Cup of Nations, football authorities have begun to search for a new coach as the fate of German Coach, Berti Vogts, has conclusively been decided.

La Jolla, California based company H2o Age Inc. supplies first Delta flight to Lagos, Nigeria with firm's state of the art portable water filtration bottles.

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A 17 year old Nigerian pupil who was gang-raped 7 months ago is still in a hospital in Southwestern Nigeria.

A young Nigerian Christian woman was manhandled by a Muslim man in the rainfall near a popular market by a mosque in Abuja, Nigeria.

Baseline surveys showed that, the users of the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)spend over $68, 000, 000 (sixty-eight million dollars) daily for phone calls in Nigeria, the second largest mobile market in Africa after South Africa.

Bisi Ojediran, the author of the bestseller, "The Governor's Wife", has dedicated his new Peter Abel novel to Dr. Mo Ibrahim.