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Wikileaks Expose on Graft in Nigeria Worries PDP Chief
Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 11:43 am | Akanimo Sampson
Apparently overwhelmed by the on-going revelations on corruption in Nigeria, a chieftain of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Ekerete J. Ekerete, has said that the convocation of a sovereign national conference has become inevitable ... More >>
MOSOP Keeping Tap On Trial of Nigerian Activist in Dutch
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 3:00 pm | Akanimo Sampson
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has said that the kinsmen and women of the late Ken Saro-Wiwa, are treating the case of the Nigerian activist, Mr. Sunny Ofehe, in The Netherlands with the basic principle of law that an accused ... More >>
ERA Expresses Concerns Over Activist's Dutch Trial
Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 11:33 am | Akanimo Sampson
Nigeria: Give More Powers, Functions to States – LGs Group
Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 9:56 am | Akanimo Sampson
A think-tank group in Akwa Ibom State has called for a constitutional re-engineeroing in Nigeria, that will allow for more powers to be devolved to states and local governments. More >>
Niger Delta: Rift between Shell and Local Industry Deepens
Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 12:51 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE rift between the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas major, Shell, and the warring local players in the industry is taking a turn for the worse. AkanimoReports says the arrowheads of the local people, the Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change, barely ... More >>
Nigeria: Group Dares Shell, Braces for Action
Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 11:26 am | Akanimo Sampson
With the Ogoni pollution problem in Rivers State yet unresolved, another trouble is brewing for the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas major, Shell, in the Niger Delta area. More >>
Local Oil Firm Acquires another Facility
Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 5:59 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Spurred by the Local Content Policy of the Nigeria government, AkanimoReports on Monday said a local player in the oil and gas industry, FENOG Nigeria Limited has acquired another hi-tech equipment, an offshore Pipe-laying Derrick Barge (Akpevweoghene). More >>
Row over Pro-NDDC Protests in Rivers
Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 5:56 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Current protests by suspected hired youths in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, in favour of the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Chibuzor Ugwoha, has sparked off a row in the oil and gas region. More >>
Anti-Gas Flare War Underway In Niger Delta by Women
Monday, 1 August 2011, 12:13 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Apparently threatened by the menacing impact of climate change, some 250 Niger Delta women are currently threatening to mobilize women and youths in the oil and gas region, to rise again against big oil if they failed to stop the environmentally destructive ... More >>
Anti-Gas Flare War Underway in Niger Delta by Women
Sunday, 31 July 2011, 8:18 pm | Akanimo Sampson
APPARENTLY threatened by the menacing impact of climate change, some 250 Niger Delta women, are currently threatening to mobilize women and youths in the oil and gas region, to rise again against big oil if they failed to stop the environmentally ... More >>
We'll Take On You, Niger Delta Group Warns Boko Haram
Wednesday, 20 July 2011, 11:56 am | Akanimo Sampson
The Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change, a seeming left wing group in Nigeria's oil and gas region, has threatened to mobilise some unrepentant militants in the region, to take the current "terrorist battle" to Boko Haram and their sponsors ... More >>
Nigeria: Tanbuwal, Judiciary Under Fire over Eyiboh
Monday, 11 July 2011, 3:14 pm | Akanimo Sampson
The people of Eket Federal Constituency, the oil basin of Akwa Ibom State, have taken on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, and the judiciary arm of government over their alleged roles in depriving the constituency of their ... More >>
Nigeria: Corruption Gulps N440bn in Rivers
Wednesday, 6 July 2011, 2:11 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Corruption gulpped over N440 billion in the Rivers State Internal Revenue Board between June, 1999 and July, 2008, investigation by AkanimoReports has revealed. But the gushing swindling well dried up in August, 2008 when Governor Chibuike Amaechi's ... More >>
Group Warns Trouble-Makers over Alison-Madueke
Wednesday, 6 July 2011, 11:52 am | Akanimo Sampson
Oil and gas majors and interest groups within Nigeria's petroleum industry who are alleged to be uncomfortable with the return of Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to the Petroleum Resources Ministry, have been warned to desist from their “dirty politics” ... More >>
Nigeria: Why Activists Back Sylva's Model Schools
Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 4:00 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Human rights and pro-democracy activists in Bayelsa State, President Goodluck Jonathan's home state, have risen in support of the current move by Governor Timipre Sylva, to establish16 model schools in the state. More >>
Global Environmental Journalist Body Gets African Chapter
Friday, 24 June 2011, 4:34 pm | Akanimo Sampson
A NEW group, African Federation of Environmental Journalists (AFEJ) has emerged as continental organisation of the International Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ). As a continental group for journalists and media workers in Africa AFEJ will ... More >>
Nigeria: Crisis-Ravaged Ijaw Community Finds Peace In Rivers
Tuesday, 14 June 2011, 4:34 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Social and economic activities have return in Abuloma, an Ijaw community in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, that was ravaged by violent conflict last March. Local people and residents are engaging in their normal businesses even as night ... More >>
Nigeria: Groups Step Up Campaign for Oil Minister
Monday, 13 June 2011, 1:55 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Groups in the Niger Delta area are running heads over hills to ensure that their candidates emerge the next Oil Minister in the country. Sources say former Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, appears be endorsed by more groups. More >>
Allison-Madueke Splits Niger Delta, Groups Differ
Thursday, 9 June 2011, 3:05 pm | Akanimo Sampson
The Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region, is currently divided on former Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke. While Oil and Gas Contractors in the region are pressing President Goodluck Jonathan, not to re-appoint her, another ... More >>
Nigeria: Oil Contractors Want NNPC Boss' Sack
Tuesday, 7 June 2011, 1:32 pm | Akanimo Sampson
A forum of Oil and Gas Contractors in the South-South geo-political zone, are pressing President Goodluck Jonathan, not to re-appoint the immediate past Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke into his “transformation” cabinet. They ... More >>
