Events 2006 in Nigeria

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1 events

1.1 january
1.2 february
1.3 march
1.4 april
1.5 may
1.6 june
1.7 july
1.8 august
1.9 september





events
january

january 25 - nigerian militants attack industrial facility of subsidiary of italian oil giant, nigerian agip oil company in port harcourt killing 8 policemen , civilian worker.

february

february 9 - large-scale slaughter planned @ nigerian farm thousands of chickens have died bird flu.
february 18 - sixteen people killed in northern nigeria demonstrators protest jyllands-posten muhammad cartoons storming , burning christian churches , businesses.

march

march - nigeria represented @ 2006 commonwealth games in melbourne, victoria, australia.
march 22 - top 9 floors of nigerian investment development bank in lagos collapse during thunderstorm, killing @ least 1 , injuring several others.
march 25 - nigerian president olusegun obasanjo announced allow former liberian leader charles taylor extradited liberia, wanted numerous crimes.

april

april 9 - nigerian president obasanjo , republic of congo president denis sassou-nguesso host talks in abuja between rival groups in darfur hoping accelerate peace process. sudanese attendees include vice president ali osman mohamed taha, minni arcua minnawi head of powerful faction of divided sudan liberation army, , khalil ibrahim, leader of smaller justice , equality movement.

may

may 12 - pipeline explosion on outskirts of lagos kills 100 people. vandals tapping pipeline steal oil when blast erupted.
may 16 - national assembly of nigeria votes against constitutional amendment remove term limits; president obasanjo prevented contesting third term in office.

june

june 13 - president olusegun obasanjo meets cameroonian counterpart paul biya, , un secretary general, kofi anan in new york city resolve dispute talks on bakassi.

july

july 8 - nigerian government announces lay off 1 in 5 civil servants, amounting on 33,000 jobs.

august

august 1 - nigerian troops begin pull out of bakassi; bakassi becomes cameroonian territory.

september

september 30 - collapse of dam wall kills forty people in gusau, zamfara state.



























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