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Militants: Niger Delta Peace Initiative 'Ll Fail
Tuesday, 10 July 2007, 12:17 am | Akanimo Sampson
The Joint Revolutionary Council of the rebel groups in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region, say the current peace initiative by the N igerian government will not succeed. More >>
Nigeria: Jitters In Rivers Over Amaechi, Princewil
Tuesday, 10 July 2007, 12:10 am | Akanimo Sampson
GOVERNOR Celestine Omehia's administration in Rivers State, one of the key oil and gas-producing states in Nigeria, which appears to be standing on a feet of clay since the outcome of the largely disputed April 14 elections that brought him to power, ... More >>
UN Urges Action To Halt Rising Sea Death Toll
Monday, 9 July 2007, 7:10 pm | Akanimo Sampson
The United Nations refugee agency and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) are currently joining forces to call for more action to prevent deaths among boatpeople making dangerous voyages across the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Aden and other ... More >>
Reeep To Fund 35 New Energy Projects
Monday, 9 July 2007, 7:09 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) says it will be funding 35 new projects. The funding round, REEEP’s sixth, represented the largest in its four year history. “ More >>
Growing bio-fuel Demand Underpinning Agric Prices
Monday, 9 July 2007, 7:07 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Increased demand for bio-fuels is causing fundamental changes to agricultural markets that could drive up world prices for many farm products, saya a new report published by the FAO and OECD. More >>
Bird Flu Serious In Nigeria, Egypt, Indonesia
Friday, 29 June 2007, 12:09 am | Akanimo Sampson
ALTHOUGH the response to the deadly H5N1 virus in poultry has significantly improved over the past three years, the virus, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) Chief Veterinary Officer Joseph Domenech, still remains entrenched in several ... More >>
Ijaw State Conditions For Peace In Niger Delta
Friday, 29 June 2007, 12:08 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE Ijaw people of the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas basin, has stated their conditions for lasting peace in the volatile region even as they are full of praises for the Federal Government for releasing Mujahid Dokubo-Asari. More >>
Smear Campaign In Akwa Ibom Over Akpabio
Friday, 29 June 2007, 12:06 am | Akanimo Sampson
Governor Godswill Obot Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, is being seen by most electorate in the state as an extremely lucky man. Perhaps, going by the avalanche of smear campaign against him in both formal and informal media, the mercantile and militant ... More >>
Nigeria: Concerns In Rivers Over Amaechi
Monday, 25 June 2007, 10:47 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE pro-democracy community in Rivers State, one of the major oil and gas producers in Nigeria, is becoming uncomfortable with the snail speed the legal battle between the immediate past Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Rotimi Amaechi, and Governor ... More >>
Nigeria: Judiciary Still On Trial Over Amaechi
Monday, 25 June 2007, 3:16 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Abuja, filing a suit to stop INEC from substituting his name or disqualifying him from participating in the gubernatorial elections except in accordance with the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2006. More >>
Nigeria: Fresh Oil War Looms In Rivers, Bayelsa
Monday, 25 June 2007, 3:15 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Nigeria: Fresh Oil War Looms In Rivers, Bayelsa * Over Killing of 12 Ijaw Youths By Agip More >>
Nigeria: Coma, Militant Group Announces Cease-Fire
Friday, 22 June 2007, 10:43 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE Coalition for Militant Action (COMA), one of the plural militia cells that are locked in armed struggle to free the peoples of the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas basin, has annouced that its fighters will no longer rock the boat till further ... More >>
COMA, Militant Group Announces Cease-Fire
Friday, 22 June 2007, 10:22 am | Akanimo Sampson
The Coalition for Militant Action (COMA), one of the plural militia cells that are locked in armed struggle to free the peoples of the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas basin, has annouced that its fighters will no longer rock the boat till further ... More >>
Niger Delta: US Firm Heightens Security Situation
Thursday, 21 June 2007, 10:44 am | Akanimo Sampson
WITH oil production activities still being largely disrupted in the Rivers State axis of the Niger Delta, amid incidents of sporadic gun shooting by rival cult cum militia cells in most parts of the state, a United States (U.S.) oil firm is currently ... More >>
Algeria, Angola Export More Oil To U.S.
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 10:12 am | Akanimo Sampson
ALGERIA and Angola are fast becoming Africa's leading oil exporters to the United States of America, following the economic-crippling activities of militants in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria. The Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas basin, has ... More >>
Nigeria: Dutch Group Hail Yar'adua On Dokubo-Asari
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 10:11 am | Akanimo Sampson
In a wire statement to this reporter, President of the group, Sunny Ofehe, calaimed that Dokubo-Asari's release has come as a welcome development due to the incessant demand by the various militant groups in the Niger Delta led by the popular Movement ... More >>
Adopt Fishing Convention Work, ICSF Tells ILO
Friday, 15 June 2007, 2:47 pm | Akanimo Sampson
The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has urged the International Labour Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) to adopt the proposed Work in Fishing Convention, 2007, which will address issues related to minimum requirements ... More >>
Farm Animal Diversity Under Threat, Says Report
Friday, 15 June 2007, 2:45 pm | Akanimo Sampson
The rapid spread of large-scale industrial livestock production focussed on a narrow range of breeds is the biggest threat to the world’s farm animal diversity, according to a report presented to the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. More >>
Lesotho Faces Acute Food Crisis
Friday, 15 June 2007, 2:40 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Lesotho needs urgent international assistance to avert a major food crisis because of high cereal prices after this year’s main cereal harvest was ravaged by one of the worst droughts in 30 years, says a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture ... More >>
ILO Adopts New Labour Standards For Fishing Sector
Friday, 15 June 2007, 2:37 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Innovative new labour standards designed to improve the conditions for roughly 30 million men and women working in the fishing sector worldwide were adopted today at the 96th annual conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO). More >>
