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Ogoni Sets for Self-Autonomy, Says Mosop
Monday, 15 November 2010, 10:59 am | Akanimo Sampson
The Ogoni Mass organisation, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has rolled out plans for their self-autonomy as well as offer reasons why they will participate in next year's general elections. More >>
Tension Mounts in Bayelsa Over Attack on Activist
Monday, 15 November 2010, 10:56 am | Akanimo Sampson
There is an uneasy calm in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, the home state of President Goodluck Jonathan, following an alleged act of repression on the Founding Director of the Ijaw Council for Human Rights, Patterson Ogon, on Wednesday. More >>
Jonathan League Kicks Off Nationawide
Sunday, 14 November 2010, 10:17 am | Akanimo Sampson
Chief Christian Kokoriko, general president of the League while speaking with DAILY INDEPENDENT in Port Harcourt, Rivers state said, centers for the geo-political zones would be Uyo, Yenagoa, Port Harcourt, Kaduna, Abeokuta and Abuja while the finals ... More >>
Jail Term for Electoral Offenders in Rivers
Sunday, 14 November 2010, 10:16 am | Akanimo Sampson
GOVERNOR Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, one of the richest oil and gas-producing states and regional economic headquarters of the South-South zone, is going tough on electoral vices in the state, insisting the era when some persons sit down in ... More >>
Mend Again! Warns of Another Abuja Bomb Attack
Saturday, 16 October 2010, 1:14 pm | Akanimo Sampson
MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), a militant group, has alerted the nation of a fresh plan to attack the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, again. More >>
Group Blasts NDDC, Hails PIB for Niger Delta
Thursday, 14 October 2010, 11:02 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) budget for this fiscal year has come under some harsh criticism even as the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) received thumps up for coming up with new provisions for the oil and gas region. More >>
Akinimo Sampson: Armed Conflict in Eket
Thursday, 14 October 2010, 11:00 am | Akanimo Sampson
A GANG of 10 armed men on Wednesday morning, shattered the relative peace in Eket, home of the American oil giant, ExxonMobil, when they abducted an Indian lady, killing her police security guard and her driver. More >>
Kidnapping, Piracy Thrive Offshore Niger Delta
Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 12:43 pm | Akanimo Sampson
CIVIL society group, Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) has raised an alarm over an alleged renewed kidnapping and piracy off the coast of the Niger Delta. While commenting on the October 1, bomb blasts in Abuja, the group said the spate of piracy ... More >>
ATIKU Raises Alarm: Plans to Rig Primaries
Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 12:42 pm | Akanimo Sampson
PRESIDENTIAL aspirants on the platform of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have started to splash mud on Aso Rock, with the Turaki Vanguard, one of the political machines of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, alleging that President Goodluck ... More >>
Child Malnutrition Worsens Global Hunger
Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 12:41 pm | Akanimo Sampson
AHEAD of this year's World Food Day billed for October 16, the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) indicates that malnutrition among children under two years of age is one of the leading challenges to reducing global hunger. More >>
Why ERA is at War with Tobacco Firms in Nigeria
Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 12:40 pm | Akanimo Sampson
FOREMOST environmental rights advocacy group, Environmental Rights ASction (ERA), has given reasons whythey want to fight the mega billion naira tobacco industry in Nigeria to a stand still. More >>
Militants Crack, Disown Henry Okah
Thursday, 7 October 2010, 11:17 am | Akanimo Sampson
THE October 1, bomb blast at Abuja, has cracked the insurgent community in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region, with some unrepentant rebel groups loyal to Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, coming down heavily on Henry Okah, a factional leader ... More >>
No Access Road to Southern Ijaw
Thursday, 7 October 2010, 11:16 am | Akanimo Sampson
FOURTEEN years after the creation of Bayelsa State, and 10 years of the existence of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), an interventionist agency, most parts of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area are yet to be accessed by road. More >>
Kidnapping: ABIA Caucus Exposes Police
Thursday, 7 October 2010, 11:09 am | Akanimo Sampson
ABIA State Caucus in the National Assembly has passed a seeming vote of no confidence on the police in the current fight against kidnapping and armed robbery in the state. Members of the caucus have also explained why they are pressing the Federal Government ... More >>
Uduaghan Blasts Teachers Over Mass Failure
Wednesday, 6 October 2010, 12:44 pm | Akanimo Sampson
GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State on Tuesday, took on teachers in the state, challenging them to show justification why government should continue to pay them. The obviously angry governor wants teachers in the state to show greater commitment ... More >>
Rivers PDP Crisis Takes New Twist
Saturday, 25 September 2010, 11:11 am | Akanimo Sampson
CURRENT power play in Rivers State between the Governor Chibuike Amaechi administration and a faction of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, has taken a new twist. More >>
New Militant Group Springs, Against IBB
Saturday, 11 September 2010, 10:22 am | Akanimo Sampson
AHEAD of the 2011 polls in Nigeria, a new militant group has sprang up in the volatile Niger Delta area, with a seeming vicious political agenda. Spokesperson of the new group, Wilson Amaebim, an Ijaw, told AkanimoReports on Friday that the name of the ... More >>
Soboma George: Niger Delta Fragile, Says Group
Saturday, 11 September 2010, 9:56 am | Akanimo Sampson
CIVIL society group, Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) says the Niger Delta, Nigeria's honey comb, is still a region of potential violent conflict in spite of the prevailing relative peace. More >>
Shell In The Soup Again!
Friday, 10 September 2010, 4:14 pm | Akanimo Sampson
LAWYER for Milieudefensie -Friends of the Earth Netherlands - who is also representing three Nigerian farmers, has submitted to The Hague court an additional written request to obtain access to 30 of Shell’s internal documents. More >>
Niger Delta: MOSOP, Activists Fault Amnesty Prog
Wednesday, 8 September 2010, 12:41 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE Ogoni mass organisation, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) and some environmental, pro-democracy and human rights activists in the Niger Delta, have faulted the Federal Government implementation of the amnesty programme to repentant ... More >>
