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Lagos — HOPES of peace in the Niger Delta oil industry hub dimmed yesterday when militants forced Shell to shut in another 150,000 barrels of oil per day (150 kbd), growing Nigeria's output loss to 890 kbd.
The development coincided with an ultimatum by Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) on government to reverse the sale of Kaduna and Port Harcourt Refineries within 14 days.
Warri — THE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has denied clashing with the Niger Delta Freedom Fighters (NDFF) over the abduction of four American oil workers at Egbema.
Vanguard had reported yesterday that militants under the platform of MEND had clashed with the NDFF over the same matter. But in an online statement sent to Vanguard yesterday, MEND blamed the members of a community for the attack.
Warri — MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) and the Niger-Delta Freedom Fighters (NDDF), aka Egbema One, which clashed in the creek, Sunday, following an audacious attempt by the MEND to rescue the four American hostages, kidnapped by the latter since May 8, precisely 22 days ago, have reportedly agreed on a ceasefire, raising hope, yesterday, that the foreign oil workers would be released before long.
Warri — FIVE members of the Niger Delta Freedom Fighters (NDDF), aka Egbema One, the militant group that abducted four American oil workers of Global Industries, May 8, have been kidnapped following a gun battle in the early hours of Sunday with militants from the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND). MEND members had invaded the den of the Egbema One in the creek in a daring bid to rescue the hostages.
Lagos — The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), yesterday handed over Port-Harcourt and Kaduna refineries to Bluestar Oils Services Consortium, floated by business mogul, Alh. Aliko Dangote, Femi Otedola of Zenon Oil, Rivers State Government and other Nigerian investors.
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Lagos — Prologue
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was not a man given to dreams but this was one he would not forget in a hurry. As he dozed off sometime in August 1997, he found himself transported into a huge compound where he confronted an unusually huge man who beckoned on him to come inside the premises.
Lagos — Worried by the spate of abduction of expatriate workers in the Niger Delta region, which culminated in the hostage taking of two of its nationals at the weekend, Britain has cautioned its citizens against all travel to the crisis prone region to avert further kidnappings and armed attacks.
Yenagoa — A prominent militant group, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Bayelsa State chapter has issued a 72- hour ultimatum to the Federal Government to release detained activist, Alhaji Asari Dokubo or risk the killing of seven expatriate oil workers abducted Friday, by militants in Akassa, Brass local government area of the state.
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Lagos — WHAT has mystified watchers of the agitation in the Niger-Delta region was the bombing, penultimate week, of the Otuoke country home in Ogbia local government area, Bayelsa State of the vice president-elect, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. The brainteaser, really, is not that militants momentarily turned their eyes away, on that ill-fated Wednesday, May 16, from foreign oil workers and oil facilities in the expansive creek of the region, but that they wreaked mayhem on the "governor-general" of the Ijaw nation.
Yenagoa — The peace of the Bayelsa waterways was again tested in the early hours of yesterday as armed gunmen seized 10 oil workers off the Atlantic coast of Sangana in the Brass local government area of the state.
The expatriates, three Americans, four Britons, a South African, an Indian and a Nigerian were working for US-based Transcoastal Corporation, contracted to a Nigerian oil firm, Conoil.