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05/03/2006

Asaba — As security agencies battles to unravel the mystrey surrounding the bomb blast that caused extensive damage to fuel tankers and houses in Ekpan, the outskirt of Warri last weekend, Delta State Government, said it would not interfere with Police investigation into the incident.

05/02/2006

Abuja — As Nigeria heads for general elections in 2007, the biggest political battle gearing up in Africa's most populous country is not between the government and the opposition - it is between the president and the vice president.

05/01/2006

Warri — IJAW militant group, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has claimed responsibility for weekend's bomb attack on Warri refinery. The blast occurred Saturday night in a car parked inside the Petroleum Products Tankers Park close to the refinery but no casualty was reported.

05/01/2006

Warri — THE Nigerian Army has offered to go into dialogue with aggrieved parties in the Niger Delta with a view to promoting peace in the region. This is sequel to the recent wave of explosions in Port Harcourt and Ekpan near Warri.

05/01/2006

A bomb believed to have been planted in a 190 Mercedes Benz car parked at the petro-chemical refinery, Ekpan near Warri, exploded Saturday night wounding two people, destroying several trucks and two building includings and a police station.

05/01/2006

Warri — The Nigeria Police yesterday said the bomb blast which rocked the petroleum tanker drivers' park in Warri on Saturday night might have been timed to start a chain reaction of explosions. Superintendent of Police, Mr. Job Olorijolu, who led six other police bomb disposal experts told the Chief of Defence Staff, General Alex Ogomudia, who yesterday went to the scene of the incident to see things for himself.