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Probe JTF Chief, Militants Tell Minister
Wednesday, 3 March 2010, 5:43 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE Bayelsa State sector command of the Joint Task Force (JTF), a special security outfit, is currently jittery as militants are pressing for the Sector Commander, Victor Ezugwu, an Army Colonel, to be investigated over his alleged involvement in ... More >>
Nigeria: Oil Communities Take Charge Of Security
Saturday, 27 February 2010, 2:04 pm | Akanimo Sampson
NIGERIA's Environment Minister, Mr. John Odey, has charged oil-bearing communities of the Niger Delta to take control of their internal security. More >>
Environmental Group, ERA, Warns Nigeria
Tuesday, 23 February 2010, 12:25 pm | Akanimo Sampson
FOREMOST environmental rights advocacy group in Nigeria, Environmental Rights Action (ERA), which also serves as the country's branch of Friends of the Earth, has warned that for the Nigerian government and power-seeking politicians, it will no longer ... More >>
Ijaw Leaders Task Jonathan on Reforms
Tuesday, 23 February 2010, 12:24 pm | Akanimo Sampson
IJAW leaders on the platform of Ijaw Foundation, have challenged Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to urgently address and resolve six key issues which they claimed will immediately launch Nigeria on the path of greatness. More >>
Sylva; Your Commissioners 'Re Contractors
Tuesday, 23 February 2010, 12:23 pm | Akanimo Sampson
The Network of Freedom Fighters (NFF), a militant group galvanised by Nengi James, is already alleging that members of the Executive Council of Bayelsa state have converted themselves to contractors. More >>
Fifth Columnists Move Against Jonathan
Friday, 19 February 2010, 10:39 am | Akanimo Sampson
JOINT Revolutionary Council (JRC), an insurgent network in the volatile Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas basin, has raised an alarm over an alleged plot by the enemies of Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, to distabilise the country. More >>
Ar'adua: Militants Tackle Minsters
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 9:19 am | Akanimo Sampson
INSURGENTS of the Niger Delta on the platform of the Network of Freedom Fighters (NFF) have taken on the Executive Council of the Federation, and the country's security agencies saying they have disappointed the Nigerian people on their handling of President ... More >>
Nigeria: Land Grabbers Invade IJAW Community
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 9:28 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE impoverished local people of Biseni, a rustic Ijaw community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, one of the frontline oil and gas states in Nigeria, are currently being harassed by 'money bags' who are invading the area to grab lands. More >>
MEND Warns Oil Workers, Says They're Not Safe
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 9:50 am | Akanimo Sampson
MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), an insurgent network, has again called on foreign oil and gas workers to leave the Niger Delta, warning that they will strike anytime without further notice. More >>
Group To African Leaders: Reject Copenhagen Accord
Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 11:28 am | Akanimo Sampson
PAN African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) on Tuesday urged African leaders attending the 14th Ordinary Summit of the Africa Union to reject the Copenhagen Climate Change Accord, or at best adopt a wait-and-see attitude, noting that both the conduct and ... More >>
Niger Delta: Why MEND Revokes Ceasefire
Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 10:13 am | Akanimo Sampson
EXECUTIVE Director of Grassroots Initiative for Peace and Democracy (GIPD), a civil society group, Mr. Akinaka Richard, says armed youths of the Niger Delta are bracing to return to the path of hostilities because the protracted health condition of President ... More >>
Row Over Climate Change Funding
Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 10:09 am | Akanimo Sampson
Unresolved Queries Are Allegedly Threatening To Breed Mistrust In The Promises Of climate-change funding that governments made in the Copenhagen Accord at December’s United Nations summit. This claim is contained in a paper published on Monday by ... More >>
Niger Delta: Panel Faults Post-Amnesty Deals
Friday, 22 January 2010, 9:52 am | Akanimo Sampson
AN eight-man panel that was set up to review the post-amnesty deals for repentant militants of the Niger Delta, has roundly faulted the rehabilitation and training programmes of the Presidential Committee on Amnesty (PCA). More >>
Rivers Loss N152.76 Billion To 'Oil War'
Thursday, 21 January 2010, 9:50 am | Akanimo Sampson
ACTS of insurgency by armed youths in the Niger Delta, who claimed to be crusading for a better deal for the oil and gas region under their ''Oil War'' operations, cost Rivers State a revenue loss of N152.76 billion before the end of 2009. More >>
Super Eagles Disbanded, New Team For World Cup
Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 1:23 pm | Akanimo Sampson
FOLLOWING the poor performance of Nigeria's Senior national team, the Super Eagles at the on-going 2010 Nations Cup in Angola, Sports Minister Alhaji Sani Ndanusa says football authorities are considering to overhaul the team and the technical crew ... More >>
Kolo Creek Pollution
Thursday, 31 December 2009, 1:48 pm | Akanimo Sampson
WITH growing uncertainties over the worsening health condition of President Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria, coastal communities in the Delta State axis of the Niger Delta, a major oil and gas region, are on the boil over the Kolo Creek pollution. More >>
Copenhagen: A Disaster For The World's Poorest
Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 9:53 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE Nigerian Chair of the Friends of the Earth International (FOEI), a global federation of environmental rights advocacy groups, Nnimmo Bassey, says the failure of rich industrialised countries of the world to secure a strong and fair United Nations ... More >>
Shell Accused of Media Whitewash
Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 10:33 am | Akanimo Sampson
NIGERIA's leading environmental rights advocacy group, Environmental Rights Action (ERA) has again indicted the Anglo-Dutch super oil and gas major, Shell, of fuelling environmental terrorism in the volatile Niger Delta area. The group said the oil ... More >>
Sudan Sliding Towards Violent Breakup
Monday, 21 December 2009, 11:20 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE International Crisis Group (ICG) has warned that if the international community does not step in to ensure full implementation of Sudan’s North-South peace deal and shore up other failing centre-periphery agreements, the country risks a return ... More >>
Niger Delta: Kidnapping Continues, Says Group
Friday, 18 December 2009, 12:37 pm | Akanimo Sampson
STAKEHOLDER Democracy Network (SDN), a civil society group, says more than two months after the expiration of President Umaru Yar'Adua's amnesty to militants, acts of kidnapping are still on the increase but largely unreported. More >>
