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Climate Talks: Friends Of The Earth Was Suspended
Friday, 18 December 2009, 12:36 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE reason why members of the Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), a global federation of environmental rights groups which represent millions of citizens was suspended from the on-going climate talks in Denmark, has started to filter into ... More >>
FG Evalutes Industries In Niger Delta
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 10:28 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE central government of Nigeria has started to evaluate the state of industries in the Niger Delta, the country's main oil and gas region, with a view to stepping up their campaign for patronage of made in Nigeria products. More >>
Niger Delta: Post-Amnesty Insecurity
Monday, 14 December 2009, 12:57 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE armed security forces operating in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region, are currently bracing to contain fresh security challenges in the oil region since the expiration of the amnesty offer on October 4, 2009. More >>
Copenhagen And The Quest For Climate Justice
Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 11:24 am | Akanimo Sampson
FROM December 7-18, more than 15,000 people including Government officials and advisers from 192 nations, civil society and the media from nearly every country in the world, will come together in the Danish capital, Copenhagen in one of the most significant ... More >>
Ogoni Boils Again
Friday, 27 November 2009, 12:22 pm | Akanimo Sampson
KINSMEN of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the late Ogoni leader and environmental rights activist, who was killed by the Nigerian state on November 10, 19995 along with eight others, are currently uncomfortable with the moves by the authorities to relocate the Port ... More >>
EU Challenges Nigeria On Niger Delta
Monday, 23 November 2009, 9:58 am | Akanimo Sampson
THERE are prospects that the European Union (EU) and other key international donor agencies are willing to increase their efforts for the Niger Delta, Nigeria's honey comb that has been an axis of low-intensity war since the late 2005. More >>
Good Governance War Erupts In Rivers
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 12:41 pm | Akanimo Sampson
A HIRE wire backstage political war is currently raging in Rivers State, one of the key oil and gas-producing havens in the Niger Delta region. The main gladiators in the war which appears to be very novel in the oil region, are Governor Chibuike Amaechi, ... More >>
Niger Delta: Fears Of Renewed Strike Looms
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 12:39 pm | Akanimo Sampson
FRESH uncertainty is currently hanging over the Niger Delta, Nigeria's volatile oil and gas region, as citizens woke up on Tuesday with a shocking news of the armed security forces raid on Kula, a Kalabari island community in the bank of the Atlantic ... More >>
Cereal Production Down In Ecowas Countries
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 10:53 am | Akanimo Sampson
CEREAL production this year is to decline in the member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) from the 2008 good crop, says the latest forecast of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), an agency of the United ... More >>
Toxic Rice Floods Nigeria, ERA Indicts U.S.
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 1:24 pm | Akanimo Sampson
FOREMOST environmental rights advocacy group in Nigeria, Environmental Rights Action (ERA) has accused the United States of America (US) of flooding the Nigerian and other West African markets with contaminated rice. The environmental rights group ... More >>
2011: Political Tsunami Looms In Nigeria
Monday, 7 September 2009, 3:42 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE cycle of political and electoral violence is not likely to end in Nigeria, a major oil-exporting country to the United States of America (USA), even with the expected electoral reform. With the next round of general elections barely 20 months ... More >>
Fresh Radical Group Emerges In Niger Delta
Sunday, 9 August 2009, 11:46 pm | Akanimo Sampson
A SEEMING new left wing socio-cultural and political movement has emerged in the volatile Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region. The new group which calls itself Niger Delta Patriotic Front (NDPF) says it is determined to purge the oil ... More >>
Amaechi, Rivers Governor Exlodes Over N500BN
Friday, 10 July 2009, 10:36 am | Akanimo Sampson
MR. Chibuike Amaechi, governor of one of Nigeria's leading oil producing states, Rivers, does not appear to be happy with recent reports linking his administration with alleged unwholesome financial deals. More >>
Militants Hit Oil Facilities
Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 4:55 pm | Akanimo Sampson
FIGHTERS of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) have dealt some fatal blows on oil facilities in the volatile oil and gas region. More >>
Activists Take Niger Delta Crisis To Us Senate
Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 1:55 pm | Akanimo Sampson
CONCERNED human rights activists across the world are currently pressing the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to quickly intervene in the on-going crisis in the Niger Delta, a key oil and gas region of Nigeria, in a frantic bid ... More >>
Its Genocide In Niger Delta, Says Group
Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 1:54 pm | Akanimo Sampson
GRASSROOTS Initiative for Peace and Democracy (GIPD), a civil society group, yesterday claimed that what was going on in the Ijaw area of Warri in Delta State ''is a premeditated war of genocide aimed at wiping out the Ijaw people''. More >>
3,500 Homeless In Delta, Say 3 Groups
Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 11:58 am | Akanimo Sampson
THREE human rights and development organisations operating in the Niger Delta yesterday claimed that over 3,500 local people have so far been rendered homeless in Gbaramatu Kingdom, an Ijaw kingdom in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, where ... More >>
1000 Oil Spills Raid Niger Delta Yearly, Says Grou
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 1:00 pm | Akanimo Sampson
FOREMOST environmental advocacy group, Environmental Rights Action (ERA) yesterday accused the oil companies operating in the Niger Delta of being economic with their records of oil spills in the region. More >>
Group Faults Yar'adua On Amnesty, Urges Reforms
Tuesday, 21 April 2009, 3:35 pm | Akanimo Sampson
A PACIFIST and pro-democracy group in the Niger Delta, Grassroots Initiative for Peace and Democracy (GIPD) says President Umaru Yar'Adua misfired in his handling of the issue of amnesty to insurgents of the oil and gas region, pointing out that ... More >>
Niger Delta Royal Fathers Spoil For Oil War
Saturday, 11 April 2009, 2:34 pm | Akanimo Sampson
ROYAL fathers of the Niger Delta are currently spoiling to join the fray in the volatile oil and gas region, as they are perfecting plans to press for a minimum of $2.00 for the oil-bearing communities for every barrel of oil drilled in their areas. More >>
