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Oil Minister, Contractors at War Over Niger Delta
Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 11:16 am | Akanimo Sampson
NIGERIA's Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, and a regional contractor bloc in the Niger Delta, are currently at logger heads over the interest of the oil and gas region that has been a hot bed of low intensity war till the amnesty ... More >>
Nigeria: Oil Minister, Contractors at War over Niger Delta
Monday, 30 May 2011, 11:44 am | Akanimo Sampson
Nigeria's Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, and a regional contractor bloc in the Niger Delta, are currently at logger heads over the interest of the oil and gas region that has been a hot bed of low intensity war till the amnesty ... More >>
Nigeria: Ex-Militant Leader, Ondo Police Boss At War
Friday, 27 May 2011, 3:46 pm | Akanimo Sampson
One of the prominent militant leaders in the Ondo State axis of the Niger Delta, High Chief Bibopiri Ajube, has dragged an Assistant Commissioner of Police in the state before President Goodluck Jonathan. More >>
Nigeria:MOSOP Rejects Auta as Federal High Court Chief Judge
Friday, 13 May 2011, 3:35 pm | Akanimo Sampson
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has kicked against the appointment of Justice Ibrahim Auta, as the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court. More >>
Nigeria:MOSOP Rejects Auta as Federal High Court Chief Judge
Friday, 13 May 2011, 3:35 pm | Akanimo Sampson
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has kicked against the appointment of Justice Ibrahim Auta, as the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court. More >>
Report Exposes Tobacco Giant Philip Morris’ Tactics
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 9:30 am | Akanimo Sampson
A Report wired to AkanimoReports on Wednesday by Environmental Rights Action (ERA) claims that as Philip Morris International (PMI) executives heralded the corporation’s $27 billion revenues in 2010 at its annual shareholders’ meeting, another not-so-welcome ... More >>
1.3 Billion Tonnes Of Food Wasted Yearly, Says FAO
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 9:24 am | Akanimo Sampson
FOOD and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says about 1.3 billion tonnes of food produced in the world for human consumption every year, gets lost or wasted. More >>
Nigeria: Heavy Shootings Rock Ogoni - HDP Alleges
Friday, 29 April 2011, 10:52 am | Akanimo Sampson
HOPE Democratic Party (HDP) governorship candidate in Rivers State, and factional President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Dr. Goodluck Diigbo, says the governorship and House of Assembly elections in Ogoni were characterised ... More >>
Fresh 'Oil War' Looms In Niger Delta
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 10:33 am | Akanimo Sampson
THERE are strong pointers that the Niger Delta, Nigeria's volatile oil and gas region, may cycle back to what it was befire the amnesty programme of government. This is likely to be so because the unrepentant militants in the region, have explained why ... More >>
Nigeria: Tension In Akwa Ibom Over Road Construction
Tuesday, 26 April 2011, 10:28 am | Akanimo Sampson
Some communities in Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, are becoming restive over an alleged ''massive'' destruction of their property by a road construction firm, Gitto Construction Limited. More >>
Election Result Sparks Fresh Ethnic War In Akwa Ibom
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 10:58 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE result of the National Assembly elections in Akwa Ibom State, has sparked off a renewed ethnic strife between the Annang and the Ibibio in the state. The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) however, swept the polls amid protest by the Action ... More >>
Nullify Nass Polls In Rivers, HDP Tells INEC
Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 11:00 am | Akanimo Sampson
GOVERNORSHIP candidate of Hope Democratic Party (HDP) in Rivers State, Goodluck Diigbo, is seeking an urgent legal redress against the National Assembly elections in the state. More >>
Oil Fire Scares Voters In Bayelsa
Monday, 11 April 2011, 12:36 pm | Akanimo Sampson
A SEEMING hellish oil fire from a facility suspected to be belonging to Agip, an Italian oil major operating in Bayelsa State, allegedly scared away many voters from Okoroba community from turning up to cast their votes. More >>
Akwa Ibom: Ex-Dig, Commissioner Under Watch
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 10:40 am | Akanimo Sampson
RECENTLY retired Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) from Akwa Ibom State, and the state Commissioner for Urban Development, Emmanuel Enoidem, are currently under security watch by Abuja. More >>
Igbo Group Calls For Fresh Polls In 2012
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 10:37 am | Akanimo Sampson
AN Igbo group, Iheuwa Development Centre, is calling for this year's elections to be shifted to 2012, claiming that the South-East geo-political zone is still so distraught by what happened on Saturday. More >>
Japanese Nuclear Disaster: Why We're Concern, By Bassey
Friday, 1 April 2011, 10:19 am | Akanimo Sampson
EXECUTIVE Director of Environmental Rights Action (ERA), Nnimmo Bassey, has explained why some 50 Right Livelihood Award Laureates and environmentalists jointly reacted on the severe damage to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan. More >>
Govt Projects Collapse In Rivers, Says Diigbo
Sunday, 27 March 2011, 1:17 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Governorship hopeful, Dr. Goodluck Diigbo, Rivers State Hope Democratic Party (HDP) Candidate in the April 2011 governorship election speaks on vision for civil unity and security, while experts predict imminent collapse of Governor Chibuike Rotimi ... More >>
April Polls: Seer Warns On Akpabio, Violence In Akwa Ibom
Sunday, 27 March 2011, 12:55 am | Akanimo Sampson
RENOWNED seer and spiritual consultant, Bassey Orok, says the current spate of political violence unsettling Akwa Ibom State, has its tap root in falsehood. He has also warned against the re-election of Governor Godswill Akpabio. More >>
Clampdown On Action Congress of Nigeria In Akwa Ibom
Sunday, 27 March 2011, 12:42 am | Akanimo Sampson
GOVERNMENT has started to clampdown on principal opposition within the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Akwa Ibom State, following te Tuesday violence that claimed scores of lives and property worth billions of naira in the state. More >>
Drivers Cry Out Over Extortion By Soldiers In Rivers
Thursday, 24 March 2011, 1:12 pm | Akanimo Sampson
COMMERCIAL drivers and other road users plying the Port Harcourt-Aba expressway say they are fed up of constant harassment and extortion by army personnel who set checkpoint at the Oyigbo express junction part of the road. More >>
