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Economic Hardship Worries Niger Delta Women
Thursday, 10 February 2011, 10:18 am | Akanimo Sampson
AHEAD of this Saturday flag-off of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party PDP) Presidential campaign for the South-South zone in Port Harcourt, some Niger Delta women say the broadening economic hardship in the country is giving them some serious concern. More >>
PDP CHIEF COMMENDS EKET DELEGATES, PLEDGES FAIR DEAL
Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 9:37 am | Akanimo Sampson
Legal Adviser of the Akwa Ibom State branch of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Eket Federal Constituency candidate of the party, Mr. Bassey Dan Abia jnr, a lawyer, has commended the party members in the area for rising up against a plot ... More >>
Groups Testify Against Sheel in the Hague
Tuesday, 1 February 2011, 12:16 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE Dutch parliament will on Wednesday January 26 hold a hearing on a joint complaint filed against Shell by Friends of the Earth International, Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) and Amnesty International for the company’s unverifiable ... More >>
Akwa Ibom Boils Over Fate of 300 School Kids
Tuesday, 25 January 2011, 2:15 pm | Akanimo Sampson
EXCEPT there is a last minute intervention, the fate of around 300 school children in the oil-bearing axis of Akwa Ibom State, is currently uncertain. There are deepening fears in the area that the children will drop out of school when schools finally ... More >>
Security in Akwa Ibom Gasy , Says NMA are Worried
Tuesday, 25 January 2011, 2:14 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Worried by the spate of seeming political assassinations and kidnappings prevalent in Akwa Ibom State, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA, according to AkanimoReports on Monday, has cried out aloud, claiming that the state is no longer safe for medical ... More >>
Wonder Biofuel, Jatropha, Fails To Deliver, Says FoEI
Saturday, 22 January 2011, 12:25 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Wonder Biofuel, Jatropha, Fails To Deliver, Says FoEI A GLOBAL federation of environmental rights advocacy groups, Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) said on Friday that the much-touted biofuel crop jatropha is neither a profitable nor a sustainable ... More >>
Jitters in Akwa Ibom Over Move to Substitute PDP Candidates
Tuesday, 18 January 2011, 9:38 am | Akanimo Sampson
There is a simmering unease in Eket, the home of the American oil giants, ExxonMobil, in Akwa Ibom State, over alleged moves to substitute some of the candidates who were victorious at the primaries of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). More >>
Probe Arrest Bassey, Other Activists, ERA Tells FG
Tuesday, 21 December 2010, 10:53 am | Akanimo Sampson
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has urged the Federal Government to investigate the unwarranted detention of ERA staff, including the executive director, Nnimmo Bassey and two Dutch parliamentarians by the Joint ... More >>
UNESCO Director General Condenms Killing of Iraqi Journalist
Friday, 26 November 2010, 9:33 am | Akanimo Sampson
DIRECTOR-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has condemned the murder of Iraqi journalist, Mazen Mardan al-Baghdadi which took place on November 21, in Mosul, Northern Iraq. In an on-line statyement to AkanimoReports on Thursday, the UNESCO boss said, ''i ... More >>
Nigeria: Ogoni Quest for Autonomy Attracting Mass Support
Thursday, 25 November 2010, 9:34 am | Akanimo Sampson
ONGOING campaign by the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), for political autonomy for the Ogoni people of Rivers State, has statrted to attract mass support with some 40 registered political parties in the country standing behind ... More >>
Nigeria: IBB, Gusau, Saraki Re-Align Against Jonathan
Thursday, 25 November 2010, 9:25 am | Akanimo Sampson
Political foot soldiers of former military ruler, Ibrahim Babangida, former National Security Adviser, Ibrahim Gusau, and those of Kwara State Governor Bukola Saraki in the South-South geo-political zone, the home zone of Preident Goodluck Jonathan, ... More >>
Niger Delta: Why Militants Are Fighting Again
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 11:02 am | Akanimo Sampson
CURRENT low intensity war in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region, between the Joint Task Force (JTF), a special security outfit, and unrepentant militants, is largely due to some unfulfilled promises and some aspects of the amnesty package ... More >>
Gas Flaring: 450 Rise Against Oil Firms
Monday, 22 November 2010, 2:19 pm | Akanimo Sampson
AROUND 450 participating organisations and individuals at a two-day national conference on the Politics of Hunger in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, at the weekend rose against the oil and gas companies operating in the Niger Delta, claimg that their ... More >>
Group Probes Project Execution in Niger Delta
Friday, 19 November 2010, 10:27 am | Akanimo Sampson
PUBLIC accountability group, Niger Delta Development Monitoring and Corporate Watch (NIDDEMCOW), says they have undertaken an independent investigation of development projects executed by governments in the oil and gas region of Nigeria, and found ... More >>
Conference Tackles FG on Food Security
Friday, 19 November 2010, 9:12 am | Akanimo Sampson
A NATIONAL Conference on the Politics of Hunger has taken on the Federal Government on the problem of food security confronting the country, saying there is a deep lack of vision and collapse of government in the area of small holder farming as the future ... More >>
ERA's National Enviromental Consultation Pictures
Thursday, 18 November 2010, 3:45 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Photo Essay from ERA's National Enviromental Consultation, Abuja More >>
Nigeria Pollution: Jonathan Blasts Oil Firms
Thursday, 18 November 2010, 10:07 am | Akanimo Sampson
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday in Abuja, took a swipe at the oil corporations operating in Nigeria, claiming that their operations have adverse effects on the country's environment and food production, reports AkanimoReports. More >>
Bayelsa Risks Emergency Rule, Says Group
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 10:24 am | Akanimo Sampson
Civil Society group, Niger Delta Development Monitoring and Corporate Watch (NIDDEMCOW) says the worrisome acts of terrorism in Bayelsa State, the home state of President Goodluck Jonathan, could trigger a state of emergency in the area. More >>
Nigeria - Tension Mounts in Boils Over Bad Roads
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 10:22 am | Akanimo Sampson
The Headquarters of the Ogoni people in Rivers State, Bori, is currently on the boil over the deplorable state of their internal roads and lack of power supply 50 years after Nigeria's independence. More >>
2011 Polls Critical for Nigeria's Democracym
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 10:20 am | Akanimo Sampson
Rivers State Government has warned that the coming 2011 general elections are critical for the sustenance of citizens-driven democratic culture in the country. More >>
