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Heavy Shelling, Shooting In Bayelsa
Monday, 3 December 2007, 10:59 am | Akanimo Sampson
Heavy Shelling, Shooting In Bayelsa As MEND Presents Yar'Adua Strange Gifts Akanimo Sampson , In Yenagoa More >>
Another Milestone on the Way to Globalization
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 10:23 am | Akanimo Sampson
First there was Dalip Singh Saund, the first Indian-American elected to the US Congress from California in 1956; he was followed fifty-one years later by Bobby Jindal, a 36 year-old Republican elected this year to the post of Governor of Louisiana, a ... More >>
Delta: Threats To Energy Security 'Ll End If...
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 10:22 am | Akanimo Sampson
Niger Delta: Threats To Energy Security 'Ll Soon End If...,Says Panel Akanimo Sampson , Port Harcourt More >>
Warri Boils Again
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 10:19 am | Akanimo Sampson
WARRI, the commercial nerve centre of the Delta state axis of the Niger Delta, is on the boil again. This time the frontline is shifting from Warri South- West Local Government Area, where the Ijaws of Ogbe-Ijor were locked in a protracted battle ... More >>
Militants Demand 4 LGAs For Ijaw In Edo, Delta
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 10:18 am | Akanimo Sampson
NIGER Delta rebels who are locked in armed struggle with the Nigerian State over alleged continued socio-economic, political, and environmental injustice against the peoples of the oil and gas region by both the federal and state governments, ... More >>
Brigidi's Panel and Niger Delta Conflict
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 9:48 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE Presidential panel, the Niger Delta Peace and Conflict Resolution Committee, NDPCRC, chaired by Senator David Brigidi, an Ijaw leader from Bayelsa State in South-South Nigeria, is currently battling behind-the-scenes to bring peace which took a flight ... More >>
Rivers: AC Leader Scares Amaechi Over Odili
Saturday, 3 November 2007, 2:23 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Action Congress, AC, governorship candidate in Rivers State, Prince Tonye Princewill, who was up till Wednesday, locked in a closed door talks with Governor Rotimi Amaechi, on how to move the big oil-producing state forward, says he will not hesitate to ... More >>
Ibori, Odili: 60 Niger Delta Groups Spoil For War
Sunday, 28 October 2007, 12:40 am | Akanimo Sampson
OVER 60 civil society organisations in Nigeria's oil and gas region, under the platform of the Niger Delta Civil society Coalition, NDCSC, are currently spoiling for war over an alleged ''kid-glove'' handling of the cases of the past governors of the ... More >>
Nigeria: Anti-Graft War Takes New Turn
Thursday, 4 October 2007, 10:35 am | Akanimo Sampson
THERE is likely to be no safe haven anylonger for corrupt public functionaries in Nigeria, particularly in the oil and gas region of the Niger Delta. Governors of the nine oil-producing states of Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River,Delta, Edo, ... More >>
FAO Insists On Greener Fish
Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 12:03 am | Akanimo Sampson
The United States (US) $400 billion seafood industry has no choice but to adapt to intensifying demand from retailers and consumers for "environmentally friendly" fish, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Tuesday. More >>
Extinction Crisis Escalates
Saturday, 15 September 2007, 3:22 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Life on earth is disappearing fast and will continue to do so unless urgent action is taken, according to the 2007 World Conservation Union, IUCN, Red List of Threatened Species that was wired to our correspondent on Thursday. More >>
Nigeria: Governors Perfect New Looting Plan
Thursday, 30 August 2007, 1:35 pm | Akanimo Sampson
To Beat EFCC, ICPC As Uncertainties Mount Adamu, Attah, Duke, Ibori, Igbenedion, Odili in Soup More >>
Nigeria: Rebels Spoil For Fresh Oil War
Wednesday, 29 August 2007, 12:36 am | Akanimo Sampson
WITH the paralysing effect of the two weeks of cult war in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, yet to clear, the Niger Delta, Nigeria's oil and gas basin, will soon cycle back into a new wave of insurgency. Some of the aggrieved rebel groups are ... More >>
Climate Change Increasing Risk Of Hunger
Thursday, 9 August 2007, 12:30 am | Akanimo Sampson
Climate change is likely to undermine food production in the developing world, while industrialized countries could gain in production potential, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf said in a wired statement to our ... More >>
Fresh Storm In Rivers Over Guber Polls
Tuesday, 31 July 2007, 12:40 am | Akanimo Sampson
Fresh Storm In Rivers Over Guber Polls AC Accuses INEC, PDP Again Its Cheap Blackmail, Says Omehia More >>
Nigeria: Death Scare Rocks Rivers
Tuesday, 31 July 2007, 12:31 am | Akanimo Sampson
PROSPECTS for enduring peace in Rivers State, easily the capital of Nigeria's oil and gas industry, are currently not appearing very positive in spite of efforts by the state government to smash the rampaging terrorist cells through the instrumentality ... More >>
Global Leaders Discuss Business, Labour Principles
Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 12:11 am | Akanimo Sampson
WHAT are the benefits and challenges of implementing labour principles in supply chains? What support from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) or the Global Compact would be useful for implementing such principles? These and other questions, ... More >>
AC Chief Blasts Governors Over N'delta Crisis
Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 12:06 am | Akanimo Sampson
ACTION Congress chieftain and Rivers State governorship candidate, Prince Tonye Princewill, says former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and the immediate past governors of the country's oil and gas-producing states, are to be collectively blamed for the current ... More >>
UK Renews Travel Advice To Niger Delta
Tuesday, 17 July 2007, 7:03 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE United Kingdom (UK) Government has again advised their citizens against all travel to the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region that has been a centre of low intensity war for months now. More >>
Food Crisis Looms In Africa's Poorest Countries
Saturday, 14 July 2007, 7:56 pm | Akanimo Sampson
According to the group, devastating but preventable food crises will hit the world's poorest countries yet again because of a failure to address the root causes of the problem. More >>
