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Militants Expose PDP's Rigging Plan For 2011
Saturday, 11 April 2009, 2:33 pm | Akanimo Sampson
AN alleged behind the curtain political deal between some leaders of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Commanders of the dreaded Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), an insurgent group in the country's oil and gas region, ... More >>
Group Raises Fresh Alarm On Niger Delta Crisis
Saturday, 11 April 2009, 2:31 pm | Akanimo Sampson
CIVIL society group, Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) says the geographical spread of criminal activity from the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region, is a symptom of more persistent problems that have not been addressed over the past ... More >>
Niger Delta Youths Back Yar'adua
Friday, 20 March 2009, 12:52 pm | Akanimo Sampson
AMID insecurity problems in the Niger Delta, some youths of the oil and gas region have started to express their support for President Umaru Yar'Adua's administration to stay on beyond 2011. They are also pleading with the insurgents to give the administration ... More >>
Rivers AC Exposed
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 12:04 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE Rivers State wing of the Action Congress (AC) yesterday cautioned former Governor of the state, Dr. Peter Odili, and former Transport Minister, Dr. Abiye Sekibo, against dragging the good name of the Chairman of the state Truth and Reconciliation Commission, ... More >>
Military Not Solution To N'delta Crisis
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 12:02 pm | Akanimo Sampson
GRASSROOTS Initiative for Peace and Democracy (GIPD), a civil sosiety group in the Niger Delta, has told the Minister of State for Niger Delta, Godsday Orubebe, that continued deployment of soldiers to the oil and gas region was incapable of resolving ... More >>
Niger Delta Youths Unmask Forces Behind Violence
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 2:15 pm | Akanimo Sampson
YOUTHS of the Niger Delta have angrily taken on the royal fathers and elders of the oil and gas region, for allegedly failing to act before the current armed confrontation in the region took a turn for the worse. They have also revealed those stoking the ... More >>
Militants Tackle FG On Niger Delta Security
Monday, 2 March 2009, 1:11 pm | Akanimo Sampson
INSURGENTS of the Niger Delta have unveiled their plan for an enduring security in the volatile oil and gas region. According to them, the best way to prevent insurgency from disrupting oil exploration and production activities in the Niger Delta, was ... More >>
Nesrea Spoils For Ecological War In Niger Delta
Friday, 27 February 2009, 1:28 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) is currently spoiling for an environmental war in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's honey comb. To this end, the agency is pressing the governors of the nine oil-producing ... More >>
Group Task S'south Governors On Development
Friday, 27 February 2009, 1:27 pm | Akanimo Sampson
GOVERNORS of the six states of the South-South zone, were yesterday challenged by a civil society group to give greater attention to rural development in a frantic bid to tame the worrisome rural-urban migration. More >>
Soldiers, Militants In Fresh Clash In Rivers
Friday, 27 February 2009, 1:26 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday in an on-line statement by their Spokesman, Jomo Gbomo, claimed that they successfully repelled a military attack in one of their camps in Rivers State. More >>
Female Journalist On Rivers Budget
Friday, 27 February 2009, 1:25 pm | Akanimo Sampson
ON the evening of December 24, 2008, just as many people were in a festive mood, the Rivers state Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi rushed to the state house of assembly to present the 2009 Appropriation Bill. More >>
N'delta Youths To Mimiko: No Room For Rhetorics
Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 2:31 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE Central Organising Committee of the Niger Delta Youths Parliament hailed the victory of the Labour Party Governorship candidate in Ondo State, Dr. Rahman Olusegun Mimiko, at the Court of Appeal, saying the new Ondo governor must realise that the ... More >>
Niger Delta Renews Call For Demilitarisation
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 12:05 pm | Akanimo Sampson
REPRESENTATIVES of over 25 youth and ethnic nationality groups and non governmental organisations from the Niger Delta, rose from a meting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital yesterday, calling on the Federal Government to end the current militarization ... More >>
Rivers AC In Divided Over Atiku, Tinubu
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 12:04 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE Rivers State wing of the Action Congress (AC) appears to be currently divided betwen the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and the former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu, as backstage schemes for 2011 begin to gather steam. More >>
Nigeria: Militants Tackle Italy On Niger Crisis
Thursday, 12 February 2009, 9:32 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE offer by the Italian Government, to provide Nigeria with two attack boats to confront the menace of armed youths in the volatile Niger Delta, has drawn the ire of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), a major insurgent ... More >>
Niger Delta Concern At World Bank Climate Project
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 10:28 am | Akanimo Sampson
FOLLOWING last week's announcement by the World Bank that eight countries will be offered funding for adaptation to climate change through the bank’s new Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR), leading environment and development organizations ... More >>
Tension In Rivers As US Oil Firm Sacks Nigerians
Sunday, 8 February 2009, 10:21 pm | Akanimo Sampson
TENSION is currently mounting in the bustling commercial island of Bonny, home of the multi-billion naira Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) plant, in Rivers State, as Baker Energy, a United States of America (US) oil servicing company sacks over ... More >>
Akanimo Sampson: Fresh War Drums In Rivers
Sunday, 8 February 2009, 9:57 pm | Akanimo Sampson
FOUR months after the unitaral ceasefire initiative by militants in the Niger Delta, after their economic-crippling ''Oil War'', the volatile oil and gas region is gearing to relapse into another cycle of violence. This time, the focus is multi-dimensional. ... More >>
Akanimo Sampson: 3 Shot Dead In Port Harcourt
Wednesday, 4 February 2009, 1:13 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THREE persons were allegedly shot dead at different locations on Sunday night in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, by unknown gunmen. One of those killed was identified as Sunny Opuabe, the leader of the Bush Boys a.ka. Peace Makers. More >>
Domesticate CEDAW, Women Tell State Legislators
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 12:15 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Gender rights activists and concerned women groups in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region, have joined others in the country to press the state Houses of Assembly to domesticate the Convention on Elimination of all forms of Discrimination ... More >>
