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Lagos — NIGER Delta militants yesterday paraded of the nine foreign hostages before newsmen, vowing not to release the kidnapped oil workers until the military pulls out of the Niger Delta region.
The hostage, Macon Hawkins. 68-year-old Texan, told reporters that he and his colleagues were unharmed and had been well treated since gunmen seized them from their pipe-laying barge.
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ONITSHA erupted. The indescribable anger that provoked the killings
in the city by the lordly Niger reflect the mood in the land. First,
was the killing of Igbo and other Christians, starting from Maidugri,
and spreading rapidly to other places in the North, in a familiar wave
of atrocity. This time, the excuse was provided by the images of
Muhammed. A mob of Moslem fanatics in the north of Nigeria, reacting to
the mostly unflattering representation of the prophet of Islam in a
Danish newspaper, over reached themselves when they began killing and
burning other Nigerians in protest. They went after a familiar target:
the ubiquitous Igbo; the symbol for the northern Moslem fanatic, of all
the things that is wrong with his world. The Nigerian version of the
protests against the Danish newspaper cartoons, in other words, took a
unique turn: while Moslems all over the world directed their anger
against the West, especially the European Union; burning flags and
torching embassies, the Nigerian Moslem turned his attention to the
Igbo, burning and killing; determined to throw one more symbolic punch
in the cycle which began with the killing of the Igbo in 1945 in Jos,
and when Inua Wada organized the first Kano pogroms in 1953. Needless
to say, it has always been taken for granted that the Igbo would roll
over and take it. But this proved to be a miscalculation.
This Day (Lagos)Warri/Port Harcourt - The crisis in the Niger Delta assumed international dimension
yesterday as the Warri Ijaw Peace Monitoring Group (WIPMG) sent a
warning to the government of the United States of America (USA) to
steer clear of the Niger Delta or its forces shall be disgraced if it
dares the people.
This Day (Lagos)Lagos - December 10 last year, I gave a talk to the Rotary Club of Apakun
Oshodi, in Lagos. Because I had become bored by long written speeches,
where many government officials hide to dodge candid discussions on
critical issues, I decided to speak extempore. While I waited for the
flight at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja, I tried to think of what
to speak on. One of the things that interfered with my concentration
was the noise and chatter of the happy students of Loyola Jesuit
College, Abuja, who filled the hot waiting lounge.
Daily Champion (Lagos)IJAW militants yesterday alleged that the United States of America (USA) military personnel have stormed the Niger Delta region following the crises that engulfed the area in recent times.
Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) and Warri-Ijaw Peace Monitoring Group, made the allegation in separate statements and warned U.S government to steer clear of the Niger Delta so as not to aggravate the situation.
Warri/Port Harcourt — The crisis in the Niger Delta assumed international dimension
yesterday as the Warri Ijaw Peace Monitoring Group (WIPMG) sent a
warning to the government of the United States of America (USA) to
steer clear of the Niger Delta or its forces shall be disgraced if it
dares the people.
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Lagos — December 10 last year, I gave a talk to the Rotary Club of Apakun
Oshodi, in Lagos. Because I had become bored by long written speeches,
where many government officials hide to dodge candid discussions on
critical issues, I decided to speak extempore. While I waited for the
flight at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja, I tried to think of what
to speak on. One of the things that interfered with my concentration
was the noise and chatter of the happy students of Loyola Jesuit
College, Abuja, who filled the hot waiting lounge.
IJAW militants yesterday alleged that the United States of America (USA) military personnel have stormed the Niger Delta region following the crises that engulfed the area in recent times.
Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) and Warri-Ijaw Peace Monitoring Group, made the allegation in separate statements and warned U.S government to steer clear of the Niger Delta so as not to aggravate the situation.
Warri — Armed militants holding nine foreign oil workers hostage in Nigeria's troubled Niger Delta, on Friday released photos of the captives for the first time but denied entering into talks with the government over their release.
Lagos/Warri/Port Harcourt — A new twist crept yesterday into the crisis in the Niger Delta
after militants holding the nine expatriate hostages said that Shell
Petroleum Develop-ment Company (SPDC) would need to obey an order by a
Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt to pay $1.5 billion (N193.5
billion) to the Ijaw Aborigines of Bayelsa State.