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Barely two weeks after an explosion claimed lives in Port-Harcourt, another one happened yesterday in Warri, Delta State.
The explosion occurred around the Tankers Park in the refinery area where a number of people were feared dead.
LAST Tuesday's meeting of the Ijaw ethnic nationality under the auspices of the Ijaw Consultative Assembly, jointly presided over by the Ijaw National Leader, Chief Edwin Clark and the National President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Prof Kimse Okoko was crucial because whatever the ethnic group decided, especially as it affects its participation in the Consolidated Council on the Socio-Economic Development of the Coastal States of the Niger-Delta would affect the nation.
This Day (Lagos)Lagos - Any preconceived opinion of visitors to the Niger Delta often change whenever they visit the creeks. It is a prized experience for most Nigerians especially those who, from the distance, little appreciate the challenges of the region. The development challenges facing the people are within reach, though enormous.
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Lagos — AT last, the Federal Government has reeled out what looks like a "Marshall Plan" for the development of the oil-rich but highly impoverished Niger Delta region. But the plan came short of expectation by many notches.
Vanguard (Lagos)Port Harcourt - THE Nigerian Army claimed that Wednesday, April 19, explosion in army barracks in Port Harcourt, was car explosion, not bomb. But two militant groups MEND and COMA in the Niger Delta have claimed responsibility for the incident and vowed to unleash worse terror in the region. While investigations as to the actual cause of the incident are one, the questions begging for answers are: who did the dastardly act? What is the casualty rate? Will the outcome of the investigations be different from previous ones, and thus, restore public confidence in government inquiries? For, past ones were doctored.
Vanguard (Lagos)Benin - IJAW national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, weekend, opened up on what he told President Olusegun Obasanjo in their closed-door parley, last Wednesday, at Abuja. He also stated that Ijaw ethnic nationality shunned the April 5 stakeholders' conference on the Niger-Delta and the inauguration of the Council of Socio-Economic Development of the Coastal States in Abuja, April 18, by Obasanjo because the promises, which were made before the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) agreed to release the hostages were not kept by the government.
Benin — IJAW national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, weekend, opened up on what he told President Olusegun Obasanjo in their closed-door parley, last Wednesday, at Abuja. He also stated that Ijaw ethnic nationality shunned the April 5 stakeholders' conference on the Niger-Delta and the inauguration of the Council of Socio-Economic Development of the Coastal States in Abuja, April 18, by Obasanjo because the promises, which were made before the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) agreed to release the hostages were not kept by the government.
Daily Champion (Lagos)Abuja - ADVANCED Congress of Democrats (ACD) was formally launched Thursday, with chieftains of the new party promising to defeat the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2007.
Speaking at the well attended event which took place at the Yar'Adua Centre, Abuja, Alhaji Lawal Kaita, former governor of Kaduna State, who was the chairman of the occasion, Chief Audu Ogbeh, the chairman of the technical committee of the ACD, Gov. Bola Tinubu of Lagos State, former governor of old Kano State, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, protem chairman of ACD, Chief Alexis Anielo and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Ghali Na'Abba, all said the PDP government had failed the country and would be swept out of office next year.
Daily Champion (Lagos)Port Harcourt - GOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has claimed responsibility for the explosion that rocked Port Harcourt Military Barracks, Bori Camp, Rivers State, killing two people and wounding many others.
Daily Champion (Lagos)FOR the first time in several decades, world oil prices inched in the $100 mark, when it made historic peak at $74 in London and $72 in New York markets.
The development was a fall-out of mounting tension over Iran's nuclear programme and fears of gasoline shortages in the United States (US).