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Yenaga — The oil flow stations belonging to Italian oil Major, Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) at Pregbene village in the Southern Ijaw Local Government area of Bayelsa State shut down by Niger Delta militants last week Wednesday has now been reopened.
Warri — MINISTER of Police Affairs, Alaowei Brodrick Bozimo, says the Ijaw leadership has submitted a proposal to President Olusegun Obasanjo on the way out of the face-off between the ethnic group and the Federal Government on the establishment of the Consolidated Council on the Socio-Economic Development of the Coastal States of the Niger-Delta.
Port Harcourt — CONTINUED detention of Asari Dokubo may spark off a fresh round of violence in the Niger Delta. Ijaw militants gave this hint weekend in a statement where they threatened tension and mayhem in the region.
Yenagoa — MILITANTS have shut down the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) owned flow station at Pregbene, Bayelsa State.
The militants believed to be a faction of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) also seized a fuel barge belonging to the Italian oil company, after overpowering military escorts of the barge.
Lagos — Oil major, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) may resume work in the next few weeks in the Niger Delta area where it had shut in production following attacks on its installations and abduction of its employees.
Four corpses of mobile policemen were yesterday morning found floating on the Port island creek after a night attack by militants. Police said the securitymen were attacked at a post where they were guarding some oil installations.
Port Harcourt — Violent crime escalated in Port Harcourt, Rivers State as four policemen were yesterday killed by unidentified gunmen and two wounded in the attack.
The attack is coming barely three days after unidentified militants kidnapped three expatriate oil workers in the Garden City.
Lagos — The price of crude oil yesterday rose above $72 a barrel after three foreign employees of Italian oil contractor, Saipem were kidnapped from a car under police escort in Port Harcourt, heightening concerns that the nation will take longer than expected to resume pumping crude at full capacity.
Port Harcourt — THREE expatriate oil workers were yesterday abducted in Port Harcourt, heightening concerns over global oil supplies and sending June delivery for crude oil over $73 per barrel in both London and New York markets.
Port Harcourt — Barely 24 four hours after an American oil worker was killed by a gunman in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Niger Delta militants returned to the trenches yesterday, kidnapping three foreign oil workers.