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opinion
Lagos — WITHOUT doubt, the regime of President Olusegun Obasanjo has come under attacks, especially from certain interests in the Niger Delta that feel that the government has not done enough for the region.
Lagos — THE entire nation may soon be plunged into another nation-wide energy crisis if the feelers from workers in the sector is to be relied on. For instance, workers at NNPC have threatened to put down tools while their counterparts in Power Holding Company of Nigeria ( PHCN) are said to be ready for a showdown with BPE over the sale of the Port-Harcourt Refinery and the sale of the Egbin Power Station in Lagos.
opinion
Lagos — Last week, the innocence and serenity of Otuoke in Ogbia Local Government of Bayelsa State were shattered. As if in a war film, some heavily armed militiamen were conveyed simultaneously dead night in boats to the country home of the Vice-president elect, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, and the police station in Ogbia town.
THE U.S. military's new Africa command will help safeguard West African nations' oil and other energy production against rebel or terrorist attacks, the general organising the command said .
However, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has dismissed the role of the new command saying it smirks of typical American braggadocio "which has no place in the realism of living in today's world."
interview
Lagos — With the events of last week still fresh in memory, the Niger Delta situation appears to have assumed a frightening dimension. If a guarded country home of a sitting governor and Nigeria's Vice President-elect, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, could be reduced to rubbles in a night of rage by militants, then all could be glaringly seen to be abnormal in the oil-rich region. Although many reasons have been adduced for the dastardly act, it was one incident that has brought home the votality of the region to close watchers due to years of neglect, which have thrown up frustrations in many quarters.
Yenagoa — WEDNESDAY, May 16, 2007 is one that the people of Otuoke, the hometown of the governor of Bayelsa state and Vice President-elect, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, will not forget in a hurry. To many of them, before now, the story of the exploits of the prowling armed gunmen in the troubled creeks of the Niger-Delta region was like a tale from the blue.
opinion
Yenagoa — Twice they have threatened the life of the Vice-President-elect and Governor of Bayelsa State, Dr. Jonathan Goodluck and twice he was lucky to escape the evil plans. At the eve of the presidential election last month, militants invaded the Government House, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital in an attempt to kidnap the governor. In their usual commando style they struck but however missed their target: Jonathan Goodluck.
Yenagoa — Daredevil militants in a commando style operation in the early hours of yesterday, attacked the country home of the Vice President-elect and Governor of Bayelsa State, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, at Otuoke, Ogbia local government area of the state killing a mobile policeman.
Yenagoa — ESCALATING militancy in the oil-rich Niger-Delta region yesterday assumed a frightening dimension, when unidentified gunmen bombed and destroyed the country home of vice-president-elect, Goodluck Jonathan in Otuoke, Bayelsa State, killing four policemen.
Lagos — The incessant abduction of expatriate oil workers in the volatile Niger-Delta region and the huge ransom allegedly demanded for and paid to secure their release have turned hostage-taking to a money-spinner to those involved.