03/23/2007
Port Harcourt — The amount of money which has flowed from the federation account to the Niger Delta States in form of allocation from 1999 till date has been put at N3.07 trillion out of which the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) got less than 10 percent.03/18/2007
opinion Lagos — There is the probability of a return to the Hobesian state in the Niger Delta. Life has become so cheap that deaths are spoken of as statistics. While easy money is being made by those who have the guts, the real issues of development03/13/2007
Enugu — THE Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), yesterday, dissociated itself from the Sit-At-Home purportedly being planned in conjunction with the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) for the burial of 200 MASSOB members allegedly killed from 2003 to 2006.03/08/2007
Abuja — Former Senate President and the Director-General of the Atiku Campaign Organization Dr. Iyorchia Ayu was arraigned yesterday in Abuja by the Federal Government on the charges of alleged terrorism. However Justice Binta Murtala Nyako before whom the matter is pending, granted Ayu bail on self recognition while a fire-count others charge along with him, were to fulfil further conditions to secure the bail. Other accused persons are one the Jimi Franks and Paul Santos Ofana.03/04/2007
opinion Lagos — With the current tenure hasting to an end and campaigns for elections intensified, the high level of degradation in the Niger Delta has been one of the major blueprints of presidential candidates. That the South-south geo-political zone of the country has become an issue in the comtemporary Nigeria, can by no means be undermined.03/02/2007
opinion Lagos — THE elders often say that everyone is imbued with discretion and that there is power in standing your ground when defending your future by deploying that gift of discretion. Because the restive youths of the Niger-Delta have seen their future threatened or mortgaged and feel that if they fail to act now, they would have criminally acquiesced to mortgaging the future of their children's children, they have decided to attract attention to themselves and the entire area. To this extent, they have won the initial battle. This is because the international community now sees the area as ungovernable and dangerous for foreign nationals to live in.