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This Day (Lagos)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 — 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).
Daily Champion (Lagos)Lagos - Govement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has rejected Federal Government's palliatives to redress the problems of the troubled region.
President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday offered to build $1.8 billion coastal highway and provide 20,000 jobs to address grievances of Niger Delta people.
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.
Vanguard (Lagos)Warri - THERE were discordant tunes, yesterday, on the resolution of the face-off between the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and the Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities (FNDIC) over the attendance of the April 5 stakeholders' conference on the Niger Delta, convened by President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abuja by Ijaw leaders, including the President of FNDIC, Chief Bello Oboko.
Daily Trust (Abuja)President Olusegun Obasanjo hosted a special forum on the Niger
Delta on April 5, 2006 in Abuja. This article is intended to serve as a
backgrounder to the Presidential Forum on the Niger Delta, not its
review.
The meeting with some youth groups, community elders, chiefs and
other stakeholders was yet another step taken by him in search of
workable or appropriate solutions for the myriad problems in the Niger
Delta, such as disruptive restiveness by the youths, the kidnapping of
oil workers, vandalising of oil industry installations and the general
atmosphere of insecurity in that oil-rich corner of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria.