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Demographics of Nigeria, Data of FAO, year 2005 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands.

In September 2005, Nigeria, with the assistance of the World Bank, began to recover US $ 458 million of illicit funds that had been deposited in Swiss banks by the late military dictator Sani Abacha, who ruled Nigeria from 1993 to 1998.

In 2004 Nigeria ’ s Federal Roads Maintenance Agency ( FERMA ) began to patch the 32, 000-kilometre federal roads network, and in 2005 FERMA initiated a more substantial rehabilitation.

Nigeria also contains many businesses that provide false documents used in scams ; after a scam involving a forged signature of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo in summer 2005, Nigerian authorities raided a market in the Oluwole section of Lagos.

A joint oil project with Nigeria in 2005 is likely to contribute $ 50 million of revenues to the government from the exploration licence signing fees.

In September 2007, Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) intervened to attempt to resolve the dispute over two villages along the Benin-Burkina Faso border that remain from 2005 ICJ decision ; much of Benin-Niger boundary, including tripoint with Nigeria, remains undemarcated ; in 2005, Nigeria ceded thirteen villages to Benin, but border relations remain strained by rival cross-border gang clashes ; talks continue between Benin and Togo on funding the Adjrala hydroelectric dam on the Mona River.

In 2005, Ralph Uwazuruike from Nigeria pushed for the creation of the already disputed state of Biafra for the Igbo people.

Some trends in waterborne bacterial infant mortality are also disturbing in countries like Malawi, Sudan and Nigeria ; for example, progress in the DTM clearly arrested and reversed between 1975 and 2005.

Nando's launched in Lagos, Nigeria in 2005.

* Gwandu Emirate, northwestern Nigeria 15th century to 2005 ( integrated and then deposed )

Eyadéma's funeral was held on 13 March 2005, in the presence of a number of Presidents and other international dignitaries ; Presidents Mathieu Kérékou of Benin, John Kufuor of Ghana, Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d ' Ivoire, Mamadou Tandja of Niger and Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria attended the ceremony.

* He sped up the deportation of failed asylum seekers, including one case in 2005 where a student, Kunle Eluhanla, was deported back to Nigeria while preparing for his Leaving Certificate examinations.

In 2005, there were an estimated 19 million baptised Catholics in Nigeria.

* Stella Obasanjo ( 1945 – 2005 ), First Lady of Nigeria

In 2005 it was reported that Nigeria has approved $ 251 million USD to purchase 15 Chengdu F-7 fighters from China.

In 2005 he returned to Nigeria and the following year former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Wiwa as his Special Assistant on peace, conflict resolution and reconciliation.

* Obiageli Ezekwesili, Vice President ( Africa Region ), World Bank and Federal Minister of Education ( 2006 – 2007 ) and Solid Minerals Development ( 2005 – 2006 ), Nigeria

Tuareg people | Tuareg pastoralists and their herds flee south into Nigeria from Niger during the 2005 – 06 Niger food crisis.

* Samaila Iliya ( Nigeria ): January 2004-February 2005

He achieved this feat in 2005 by scoring his first Test century against Pakistan at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados.

Chambal dacoit Nirbhay Singh Gujjar achieved national renown before being killed in 2005.

In the early 2005 federal election the party incurred very small losses and achieved 8. 1 % of the vote and 51 seats.

In 2005, the PDS, renamed The Left Party. PDS ( Die Linkspartei. PDS ), entered an electoral alliance with the western Germany-based Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative ( WASG ) and won 8. 7 % of the vote in Germany's September 2005 federal elections ( more than double the 4 % share achieved by the PDS alone in the 2002 election ).

The argument that the textures achieved with CGI cannot match the way real textures are captured by stop motion also makes it valuable for a handful of movie makers, notably Tim Burton, whose puppet-animated film Corpse Bride was released in 2005.

The San Diego Padres achieved the feat in both 2005 and 2006.

Bracelet winners who first achieved fame in other fields include French actor / singer Patrick Bruel ( in 1998 ), Danish soccer player Jan Vang Sørensen ( in 2002 ) and American actress Jennifer Tilly ( in 2005 ).

GIG-BE achieved full operational capacity on December 20, 2005.

The band OK Go may exemplify this trend, having achieved fame through the videos for two of their songs, " A Million Ways " in 2005 and " Here It Goes Again " in 2006, both of which first became well-known online.

Everest ( achieved by an AS350 B3 in 2005 ).

In 2005, however, the Stamford Hill Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls ' School achieved voluntary-aided status.

In 2010 Bob Neill was reelected with a Conservative majority greater than that achieved in 2005

The Park has achieved a Green Flag Award every year since 2005.

After an unsuccessful attempt in 2005 to convert Highwood to a home rule city, Highwood achieved home rule status in 2007, facilitating the town's abilities to raise funds and pass ordinances.

Corpus achieved notability in more recent years when teams representing them won University Challenge on 9 May 2005 and once again on 23 February 2009, although the latter win was later disqualified.

In light of this, the show moved to the new BBC Drama Village development in Selly Oak, Birmingham, with the transition between locations achieved on screen by an explosion destroying the Riverside practice in March 2005 for the fifth anniversary of the series and the surgery moving to a new specially constructed set, The Mill Health Centre, named after the series ' original production home.

The final shows achieved legendary status, partly due to bands literally playing all night ; in 2005 Gregg Allman would relate how the jamming musicians lost track of time, not realizing it was dawn until the side doors of the Fillmore were opened and the morning light poured in.

Styx achieved another Double-Platinum album — Greatest Hits ( Volume I )— on August 23, 2005.

Their album, Distort Yourself, released on 13 September 2005 achieved moderate success and the single " Bulletproof skin " was used in the motion picture Stealth.

Erasure's 2005 album Nightbirds first single, " Breathe ", reached number four in the UK charts ( their first Top 5 hit in more than a decade ) and achieved the number one position on the U. S. Dance Chart, eighteen years after their first chart-topper.

In 2005 he finally achieved a lifelong ambition to play Falstaff, in Nicholas Hytner's National production of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, co-starring with Matthew Macfadyen as Prince Hal.

The band achieved a degree of success as a second-billed act during much of the latter part of 1969 to 1971, plus recorded one album, which was ultimately released in 2005.

The College achieved an average of 17th place under its previous Master ( 1999 – 2005 ), but under its present Master ( 2005 -), its average position has fallen.