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Rivers Goes Tough On Extortion
Friday, 16 January 2009, 10:54 am | Akanimo Sampson
APPARENTLY irked by growing reports of extortion, and harassment of commercial transport operators including commercial motorcyclists in the rural areas of Rivers State by security agents, the state government has warned that they will deal appropriately ... More >>
Violent Conflict In Niger Delta Worries NDDC
Friday, 16 January 2009, 10:53 am | Akanimo Sampson
Urges Armed Youths To Give Yar'Adua's Administration A Chanceqqqqqq UNABETTING violent conflict in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region, is currently a matter of great concern at the top level of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). ... More >>
1000 Kids Learn Under Trees In Ogoni Community
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 11:23 am | Akanimo Sampson
OVER 1,000 primary school pupils at Kerebangha, an Ogoni community in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, are still learning under trees 21 months after the collapse of their school. More >>
JRC, Militant Group Condemns Bomadi Attack
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 11:21 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), an insurgent network comprising the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the Reformed Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force and the Martyrs Brigade, have dissociated themselves from the recent ... More >>
Group Calls For Stronger Official Backing For NDDC
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 10:14 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE Ibom Collectives, a civil society group in Akwa Ibom State, has called for a legislative review of the Act establishing the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), with a view to granting it greater autonomy from official interferences from ... More >>
Niger Delta Rumbles Again
Monday, 12 January 2009, 10:38 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE Niger Delta, Nigeria's honey comb, rumbled again at the weekend over alleged growing security scare in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, where the American oil supermajor, ExxonMobil, has its operational headquarters. Guarded security reports have it that ... More >>
Israel Massacres Innocent People
Tuesday, 6 January 2009, 11:27 am | Akanimo Sampson
Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), a global federation of environmental rights advocacy groups, said in a statement yesterday that it was joining its member organisation in Palestine and the Palestinian people to call on the Israeli government to immediately ... More >>
Nigerian Oil Leader: Tackle Economic Inequality
Tuesday, 30 December 2008, 11:39 am | Akanimo Sampson
NIGERIA's Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Chief Ufot Ekaette has said that he will see to the completion of the East-West Highway, a transregional road project, which he claimed will be one of his priorities in office. More >>
Group Uncovers FG's New Plan On Gas Flaring
Tuesday, 30 December 2008, 11:37 am | Akanimo Sampson
FOREMOST environmental rights advocacy group, Environmental Rights Action (ERA) says they have uncovered a new plan by the Federal Government to stall the December 31, 2008 deadline for ending gas flaring in the Niger Delta area. More >>
Militants Blame Niger Delta Leaders For Woes
Sunday, 28 December 2008, 6:17 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), a coalition of some key insurgent groups including the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), and the Reformed Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Foce, says the biggest challenge in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's ... More >>
David-West Under Fire Over Ufot Ekaette
Sunday, 28 December 2008, 6:16 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE Eket axis of Akwa Ibom State, the main oil-producing area of the state, has taken on former Petroleum Ministeer, Prof. Tam David-West, over the people described as his ''unguarded utterances'' on the choice of Chief Ufot Ekaette by President Umar ... More >>
Nigeria: Oil Spill Sacks Ijaw Community
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 10:25 am | Akanimo Sampson
OKOROBA, one of the major oil bearing communities in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has been sacked by a devastating oil spill which is already endangering the health of scores of women and children in the community . More >>
Corruption: Transparency Indicts Emerging Giants
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 9:44 am | Akanimo Sampson
COMPANIES based in emerging economic giants, such as China, India and Russia, are perceived to routinely engage in bribery when doing business abroad, according to Transparency International ’s 2008 Bribe Payers Index (BPI), that was released ... More >>
U.S. Group Wants Nigeria To Probe Jos Killings
Tuesday, 9 December 2008, 9:50 am | Akanimo Sampson
A United States (U.S.) global human rights advocacy network, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Nigeria's President Umar Yar'Adua to establish an independent inquiry immediately to find out who sponsored and carried out the killings in Jos, the capital ... More >>
Fresh Shootings Erupt In Port Harcourt
Monday, 8 December 2008, 10:06 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE relative peace in Port Harcourt, the capital city of one of Nigeria's oil-producing states, Rivers State , was shattered on Thursday night ahead the state's Arts and Cultural Festival which took off on Friday, thus throwing the unsuspecting residents ... More >>
Protect Ribadu, HRW Tells Nigerian Government
Monday, 8 December 2008, 10:05 am | Akanimo Sampson
HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW), a United States global rights network, has called on the Nigerian Federal Government to protect the former Chairman of the anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu. More >>
Communities Brace For Fresh War In Niger Delta
Monday, 8 December 2008, 10:00 am | Akanimo Sampson
OIL communities in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria, are currently bracing to launch a multidimensional anti-gas flaring war with all the oil companies carrying out the environmentally harmful practice in the region. More >>
Soldiers Sack Ogoni Community
Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 10:48 am | Akanimo Sampson
SOLDIERS suspected to be operatives of the Joint military Task Force (JTF) in the early hours of Tuesday, December 2, allegedly sacked Nyo-be Beeri, an Ogoni community of about 10,000, in Khana Local Government Area of Nigeria's Rivers State, killing ... More >>
Armed Youths Dare Bonny Monarch Over ESO Panel
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 9:20 am | Akanimo Sampson
BONNY, an Ibani island community of Rivers State, one of the leading oil-producing states in Nigeria, and home to the mega-billion Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) plant, is on the boil again. More >>
Group Warns Amaechi Over Ban Of Okada
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 9:18 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE ban of the ubiquitous commercial motorcycle taxi operation in Rivers State, popularly known as Okada, has drawn the ire of a civil society group, which is claiming that over one million citizens are at risk of being crushed by hunger by the government ... More >>
