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03/26/2006

Port Harcourt — Militants who are still holding three foreign oil workers hostage in the troubled Niger Delta region have alleged that plans by agents of the Federal Government are on to poison the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volun-teer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo who is facing treasonable charges in an Abuja High Court.

03/25/2006

WHEN Saturday Vanguard concluded its tour of the creeks of Niger-Delta, preceding week, where it inspected the flow stations hurriedly deserted by oil workers and other oil facilities that were blown up with explosives by armed militants, there was no gainsaying the actuality that the country is in a sticky situation.

03/22/2006

Warri — INTERNATIONAL negotiators and arbitrators of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday held a fresh parley on how the three foreign oil workers--two Americans and one Briton-- who are still in the custody of the militants could be freed.

03/21/2006

Lagos/Yenagoa — Men suspected to belong to the Ijaw Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Saturday, launched another attack on the oil industry, blowing up a crude oil pipeline of Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC).

03/20/2006

Yenagoa — MILITANTS in the Niger Delta, weekend, blew up another pipeline belonging to the Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC), cutting off 65,000 barrels per day of crude oil production and raising to 621,000 barrels per day the total amount of Nigeria's output currently shut in.

03/20/2006

Warri — IJAW leaders in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State, weekend, declared that their people are ready for the national head-count, commencing nationwide tomorrow, declaring as unfounded the apprehension that the riverine Ijaw communities are insecure for the exercise as a result of the refusal of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to release the three expatriate oil workers; two Americans and a Briton detained by it.

03/20/2006

Lagos — Federal Government yesterday urged militants holding sway in the creeks of the Niger Delta to sheath their swords as the siege on oil production in the region has led to a total revenue loss of nearly $1 billion (N129 billion).

03/20/2006

Lagos — Crude oil exploration in Nigeria's deep offshore region has suffered a set back after multinational oil companies including Chevron and Shell, joint owners in Block OPL 250, relinquished the asset to the Federal Government over poor results from a five year drilling campaign.

03/20/2006

Port Harcourt — As tension continue to mount in the troubled Niger Delta region over the remaining three foreign oil workers held hostage by members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Honourable Peremobowei Ebebi, has said the state government was in touch with the militants.

03/19/2006

An Ijaw, who claims to be an official of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), the group currently holding three foreign oil workers hostage in the creeks, explains why the Niger-Delta elders intervention to get the militants to release the hostages failed