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Nigeria: AC Doesn't Recognise Omehia As Gov-Elect.
Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 12:37 am | Akanimo Sampson
MEDIA Consultant to the Action Congress governorship candidate in Rivers State, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, says neither the party nor its governorship flag bearer, Prince Tonye Princewill, is part of an alleged backstage shemes to uphold the ''electoral ... More >>
Nigeria: Militants Reject Saturday's Elections
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 11:54 am | Akanimo Sampson
NIGER Delta militants in Nigeria's oil and gas basin, have rejected the April 14 polls, claiming that it was the worst elections in the history of Black Africa. More >>
JODEL, A Media Group Rejects Nigeria's Polls
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 11:54 am | Akanimo Sampson
Journalists for Niger Delta (JODEL), a media group led by one of the leading journalists in Nigeria's oil and gas region, Akanimo Sampson, has strongly condemned the conduct of the April 14, 2007 polls in most parts of the region. More >>
Nigeria: Princewill Explodes Over Rivers Oil State
Thursday, 12 April 2007, 3:42 pm | Akanimo Sampson
PRINCE Tonye Princewill, the Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate for Nigeria's Rivers State, one of the major oil-producing states, on Tuesday, in Port Harcourt, the state capital, formally presented the electorate with his plans for the state ... More >>
Nigeria's VP Not Disqualified - Party Chief
Thursday, 12 April 2007, 3:42 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Prince Tonye Princewill, the Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate in Rivers State, on Tuesday, unfolded his plans for the state. In some 30 minutes chat with AKANIMO SAMPSON , our Port Harcourt Bureau Chief, he bared his mind on a number of ... More >>
Nigeria: Militants Campaign Against PDP
Wednesday, 11 April 2007, 4:07 pm | Akanimo Sampson
NIGER Delta militants, using the alleged travails of their detained Leader, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, are currently calling on the peoples of the oil and gas region to dump the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the April 14 and 21 polls. More >>
Nigeria: Militants' Fresh Terms For Cease-Fire
Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 11:29 am | Akanimo Sampson
PROSPECTS for an enduring cease-fire in the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s main oil and gas region, are currently not appearing very positive. The armed militias are saying that they will remain undaunted in their armed confrontation unless government meet ... More >>
Nigeria: Electoral Violence Looms - Police
Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 11:29 am | Akanimo Sampson
PROSPECTS for an enduring cease-fire in the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s main oil and gas region, are currently not appearing very positive. The armed militias are saying that they wilTHE Nigeria Police has warned of a looming electoral violence in the ... More >>
Rivers Fragments As Odili’s Forces Polarise
Wednesday, 6 December 2006, 4:10 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE gentleman agreement that was allegedly reached some time in 2003, between the Deputy Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives, Austin Opara, and the Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, Rotimi Amaechi, on the 2007 governorship battle, ... More >>
Nigeria: ‘Revealed! Dead’ Man Lives Abroad
Thursday, 2 November 2006, 2:41 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Some 12 weeks after the wife of a detained real estate businessman, Mrs. Precious Onwudinjo, accused the Nigeria Police Force, Zone Six Command, of being involved in a scheme to nail her husband, some emerging facts tend to give credence to Mrs. ... More >>
Nigeria's Oil Region Needs Good Governnance
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 11:17 am | Akanimo Sampson
People’ s Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and Akwa Ibom State governorship aspirant, Obong Inibehe Okori, says the peoples of the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s main oil and gas region, want to be governed well and to have a say in what happens in their lives. More >>
Nigeria: Blunt Charles Harry Takes On Odili
Friday, 15 September 2006, 10:58 am | Akanimo Sampson
Nigeria: Blunt Charles Harry Takes On Odili Over 2007 Politics He is known for his forthrightness, blunt outspokenness, and controversial irrepressibility. An interviewer's delight, who hardly ever evades sticky questions. Alatubo Charles Harry is an enigma ... More >>
3,000 Urban Poor Rendered Homeless In Aker Base
Wednesday, 30 August 2006, 12:08 am | Akanimo Sampson
Aker Base is an over-crowded neighbourhood located in the Rumuolumeni village community, which perches on the southern axis of Port Harcourt, the capital of the Rivers State. Administratively, the community is located in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area ... More >>
Expose Bad Leadership, PDP Chief Tells Journalists
Wednesday, 23 August 2006, 11:13 am | Akanimo Sampson
A prominent member of the ruling political party in Nigeria, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Emma Anyanwu, has urged Journalists to save the country from further rot, by exposing all facets of bad leadership in Nigeria. He also called ... More >>
Nigeria: Calabar Police Under Fire
Wednesday, 23 August 2006, 11:13 am | Akanimo Sampson
ALLEGED unwholesome activities of the Zone Six of the Nigeria Police based in Calabar, the capital city of Cross River State, are currently drawing the ire of the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero. More >>
Nigeria: Calabar Police Under Fire
Wednesday, 23 August 2006, 11:12 am | Akanimo Sampson
ALLEGED unwholesome activities of the Zone Six of the Nigeria Police based in Calabar, the capital city of Cross River State, are currently drawing the ire of the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero. More >>
A. Sampson: HIV/AIDS And Stigmatisation In Nigeria
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 10:43 am | Akanimo Sampson
NKECHI and Preye, allegedly contracted the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) sometime in 1998, in one of the oil communities of the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas basin. But while Preye is still alive and enjoying life, Nkechi has since been ... More >>
Nigeria: Chevron Implicated Over Military Killings
Wednesday, 17 August 2005, 9:14 am | Akanimo Sampson
MORE than five years after some soldiers working for Chevron, an American oil and gas super major allegedly sacked Opia and Ikenyan in Warri North Local Government Area of Nigeria's Delta State, a United States (US) Lawyer, Barbara Enloe Hadsell, ... More >>
Media Group Blasts U.S. Over Diseases In Nigeria
Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 2:34 pm | Akanimo Sampson
A media group, Journalists for Niger Delta (JODEL), has taken on America, blaming the United States (US) for the alleged worsening disease conditions in Nigeria. More >>
Nigeria's Oil Communities Insist New Constitution
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 10:25 am | Akanimo Sampson
OIL BEARING COMMUNITIES of Nigeria's Niger Delta, currently being galvanised by some social movements and non-governmental organisation operating in the region, are allegedly not comfortable with the 2007 presidential project of the South South Peoples Assembly ... More >>
