Eight dead in river boat capsizing in south-eastern Nigeria

Nigeria’s National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) reports that eight people were killed after a passenger boat capsized in the south-eastern state of Anambra on Sunday, January 7. The unnamed wooden-hulled vessel was carrying over 50 passengers and was transiting the Niger River between Kogi...

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COLUMN | Nigeria teeters on the edge as oil production collapses, boats sink and the currency plunges [Offshore Accounts]

For all of my lifetime, if you had asked which country was the largest oil producer in Sub-Saharan Africa, the answer would have been Nigeria. For five decades, the count ..

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Over 70 dead after river boat capsizes in south-eastern Nigeria

Officials in Nigeria have confirmed that 76 people were killed and an undetermined number have gone missing after a river boat capsized and sank in the Niger River in the ..

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COLUMN | Quick updates: Singapore DOT, Philippines MARINA and Teras Lyza; KrisEnergy and Keppel; Shell accepts climate change target change; McDermott changes management [Offshore Accounts]

As the end of the quarter nears, we give you a cool quartet of updates on stories and companies in the offshore sector. We begin with a wait of over three years. Teras Ly ..

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