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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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).
Port Harcourt — WEDNESDAY night car bomb explosion in Port Harcourt sparked off, yesterday, a controversy over the source of the explosion after an unknown person purporting to speak for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) claimed responsibility for the attack on behalf of the group. The claim was immediately disputed by an official of MEND and an Army spokesman.
Lagos and Abuja — Nigerian National Petro-leum Corporation (NN-PC) has approved the acquisition of a working interest in a deep offshore block by China National Offshore Oil Corporation Limited (CNOOC), in which the Chinese state-owned company would pay $2.3 billion (N294.4 billion).
Port Harcourt — A car bomb detonated inside a military barracks in the Nigerian oil centre of Port Harcourt, killed two people and injured several others, military authorities said on Thursday.
The militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has claimed responsibility for the car bomb, marking a new dimension in an already violent campaign that has slashed Nigerian oil exports and pushed up global prices.
Warri — Militants targeting oil installations in Nigeria's southern Niger Delta on Wednesday denounced plans unfolded by President Olusegun Obasanjo to redress grievances in the impoverished region, vowing instead more attacks to increase local control of oil wealth.