MEND Nigeria-Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta-MEND-Official News Site -tracking News, Articles, Interviews and Opinions, related to MEND- from 1999 to Present
Lagos — In the first half of this year an average of more than four hostages have been seized monthly in the Niger Delta, an unprecedented rate of kidnappings since the first stirrings of violent protest in the early 1990s in the region that produces most of Nigeria's oil.
analysis
Lagos — Nigerians last week woke up to another news of violent clash in Onitsha, Anambra State, the third in the city in the last twenty-four months. With the incessant violent clashes in the Niger Delta as well as the volatile northern part of the country ready to explode at any given time, the thinking is that corruption and poverty may be at the root of this phenomenon. Roland Ogbonnaya writes
This Day (Lagos)Lagos - In the highly volatile Niger-Delta part of the country where tempers have become increasingly brittle and nerves frayed, groups bearing all manner of names and purporting to champion one interest or the other, are sprouting up at the rate of a dozen per day. Some of these groups profess their concern about the criminal neglect of the nation's oil trove and the alleged connivance of some of its political leaders.
Port Harcourt — Gunmen in a speed boat seized two Filipino oil workers in the latest in a spate of attacks targeting oil installations and workers in Nigeria's oil rich but impoverished Niger delta.
Norway-based oil services company Petroleum Geo-Sciences said the two contract workers hired by the firm were abducted around noon on Tuesday while in a small boat near a jetty used by the company.
Lagos — In the highly volatile Niger-Delta part of the country where tempers have become increasingly brittle and nerves frayed, groups bearing all manner of names and purporting to champion one interest or the other, are sprouting up at the rate of a dozen per day. Some of these groups profess their concern about the criminal neglect of the nation's oil trove and the alleged connivance of some of its political leaders.
Daily Trust (Abuja)I love the genius of President Olusegun Obasanjo. Yes, I must confess. Each time I run out of ideas, the old man just comes on the scene and bingo, ideas start flowing.
For one, I think the man's impervious skin allows him to take in everything but not to assimilate anything. I'd give anything to have a skin like that, even the elephant would, I guess. But can you imagine what just happened to Nigeria? It's a wonderful thing. Fani-Kayode has just been made a minister, thank God for the 'heroes' at the Senate who invoked Biblical and Qur'anic injunctions to bind us and goad us to accept him as he would be and not as he is. Barely a week after Baba castigated us brainless critics, he chose one of his brainless hinds to be appointed as minister and he had his way - as always! I mean, if those who abuse have no brains as Baba said in his penultimate broadcast, and Fani is a natural abuser, then my mathematics is as good as yours.
Vanguard (Lagos)Warri - THE WESTERN Niger Delta Volunteer Force (WNDVF) has described as deceitful the projects purported to have been executed in Ese-Edo Local Government Area of Ondo State by the Governor Agagu administration, saying that it is intended to hoodwink the Ijaw.
Warri — THE WESTERN Niger Delta Volunteer Force (WNDVF) has described as deceitful the projects purported to have been executed in Ese-Edo Local Government Area of Ondo State by the Governor Agagu administration, saying that it is intended to hoodwink the Ijaw.
This Day (Lagos)Lagos - Governor Jonathan Good-luck of Bayelsa State has said that it is appalling that 50 years after the discovery of oil in commercial quantity by Shell Petroleum Development Company in Oloibiri, presently located in Bayelsa, the state is yet to be connected to the national grid.
Lagos — Governor Jonathan Good-luck of Bayelsa State has said that it is appalling that 50 years after the discovery of oil in commercial quantity by Shell Petroleum Development Company in Oloibiri, presently located in Bayelsa, the state is yet to be connected to the national grid.