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Nigerian Navy In 11,378 Hectares Land War
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 9:16 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE Nigerian Navy is currently entangled in a potentially dangerous land dispute with a rustic local family in the Rivers State axis of the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region that is home to rampaging insurgents galvanised by the Movement ... More >>
Africa Can Reduce Greenhouse Gases
Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 10:45 am | Akanimo Sampson
ALTHOUGH Africa contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from sources other than fossil fuels, it could be absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere than it puts back in. More >>
Nigeria's Security Agents Are Repressive
Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 10:16 am | Akanimo Sampson
Militants of the Niger Delta have accused the country's armed security forces of being repressive. They therefore want President Umar Yar'Adua to curb their excesses in a bid to salvage the current democratic order from collapse. More >>
Human Rights Abuses By Security Agents
Friday, 14 November 2008, 11:15 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (IHRHL), one of the leading human rights groups in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region, says it is concerned with the unrelenting gross abuses of human rights and fundamental freedoms of citizens ... More >>
Wheat Producing Countries Move To Tackle Fungus
Friday, 14 November 2008, 11:13 am | Akanimo Sampson
REPRESENTATIVES of major wheat producing countries have called for urgent coordinated action to prevent and control the wheat stem rust disease strain Ug99, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said yesterday in an on-line statement to our correspondent. The ... More >>
Attack On Journalist By Nigeria Police
Friday, 14 November 2008, 10:55 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE Ogoni mass organisation, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has condemned in strong terms what it described as ''unprovoked and barbaric torture'' of the Port Harcourt Bureau Chief of the Punch Newspapers, Mr. Ibanga Isine, by security ... More >>
Niger Delta Law Students Spoil For War
Thursday, 13 November 2008, 11:17 am | Akanimo Sampson
LAW students from the Niger Delta, Nigeria's volatile oil and gas region, are currently spoiling for war over alleged worsening situation in the region. To this end, they are mobilising for a two million – man march to press home their demands for socio-economic ... More >>
Sampson: Lulu-Briggs Attack An Assassination Bid
Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 9:31 am | Akanimo Sampson
Niger Delta rebels who are locked in a struggle for socio-economic, political, and environmental justice in the oil and gas region, are currently claiming that the recent attack by a gang of alleged ''renegade'' gun men on Chief O. B. Lulu-Briggs. More >>
Environmental Terror In Niger Delta, Mangrove Hit
Monday, 4 February 2008, 11:43 am | Akanimo Sampson
Findings from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, tend to show that the world has lost around 3.6 million hectares (ha) of mangroves since 1980, equivalent to an alarming 20 percent loss of total mangrove area. More >>
Akanimo Sampson: Militants Strike Again, Sack Firm
Friday, 1 February 2008, 2:40 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Barely two weeks after carrying out three devastating attacks on the Nigerian Port Authority, armed youths in Port Harcourt, suspected to be militants, have sacked Almarine, a marine auto manufacturing and servicing company . More >>
A. Sampson: Ogoni Boils Over Branding By Soldiers
Tuesday, 29 January 2008, 5:01 pm | Akanimo Sampson
The Ogoni quest for socio-economic and environmental justice resulted in one of the worse forms of repression on the resilient people. The Ogoni crisis is perhaps, one of the best known cases around the world because of the sustained media attention. More >>
NDDC: Yar'adua Joking With Us, Says Militants
Friday, 25 January 2008, 8:53 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE recent claim by President Umar Musa YarAdua of Nigeria that the about N300 billion the Federal Government is owing the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, an interventionist agency, has ''expired'' is currently drawing the ire of the dangerously ... More >>
Niger Delta: Budget Group Blasts Reps Over Panacea
Wednesday, 23 January 2008, 12:42 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE Niger Delta Budget Monotoring Group,NDEBUMOG, has taken on the lower chamber of Nigeria's bi-cameral legislature, saying their solution to the oil and gas region's socio-economic, political and environmental problems does not hold water. More >>
Niger Delta: NA Petition On Gas Flaring Deadline
Wednesday, 23 January 2008, 12:28 am | Akanimo Sampson
Civil Society leaders and community representatives that are very active in the agitation for socio-economic, political, and environmental justice for the peoples of the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas basin, have petitioned their National Assembly, ... More >>
Akanimo Sampson: Rebels Blame JTF For Violence
Friday, 18 January 2008, 11:19 am | Akanimo Sampson
NIGER Delta rebels of the Joint Revolutionary Council, JRC*, say armed security forces of the Joint Task Force, JTF, a special security outfit, are to blame for the current gale of insecurity in Rivers State, one of the key oil-producing states. More >>
Akanimo Sampson: Probe Omehia Over N100M Funding
Tuesday, 15 January 2008, 9:45 am | Akanimo Sampson
The current robust political romance between the Rivers State wing of the Action Congress, AC, and Governor Chibuike Amaechi's administration is likely to hit the rocks soon if the governor fails to yield to pressure by the party to probe Omehia. More >>
A. Sampson: Delta Group Backs Call To End Oil Aid
Thursday, 10 January 2008, 5:16 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Journalists for Niger Delta, JODEL, a media group concerned with the affairs of Nigeria's oil and gas region, says they are part of the current global campaign to end oil aid. More >>
Naira Rain For Niger Delta States, Others
Tuesday, 1 January 2008, 11:56 am | Akanimo Sampson
The Niger Delta Budget Monitoring Group, NDEBUMOG, is alleging that the six states of the South-South geo-political zone, and some 22 other states of the federation, recently benefitted from a debt payment deductions deal. More >>
Nigeria: Conflict Drains National Resources
Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 9:17 am | Akanimo Sampson
CHAIRMAN of a presidential peace panel, the Niger Delta Peace and Conflict Resolution Committee, NDPCRC, Senator David Brigidi says they are determined to bring back peace to the oil and gas region in a bid to channel more national resources to the development ... More >>
Panel - Niger Delta Needs Collective Action
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 10:05 am | Akanimo Sampson
CHAIRMAN of the presidential peace panel-the Niger Delta Peace and Conflict Resolution Committee, NDPCRC, Senator David Brigidi, says bringing speedy socio-economic, political and environmental justice to Nigeria's oil and gas region, requires a very urgent ... More >>
