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Vanguard (Lagos)Warri - Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan turned back his military escorts on Thursday, as he and the Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan visited the hideaway of the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) in the creek of Delta state to confer with the militants' boss.
Warri — Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan turned back his military escorts on Thursday, as he and the Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan visited the hideaway of the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) in the creek of Delta state to confer with the militants' boss.
Vanguard (Lagos)Port Harcourt - MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) has threatened to resume hostilities in the Niger Delta should the Federal Government fail to give in to their demands on or before July 3. The group, among other things, had called on government to allow the region control its resources.
Port Harcourt — MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) has threatened to resume hostilities in the Niger Delta should the Federal Government fail to give in to their demands on or before July 3. The group, among other things, had called on government to allow the region control its resources.
Vanguard (Lagos)INDICATION that the government of President Umaru Yar'Adua desires to tackle the Niger-Delta crisis was the freedom granted the leader of the Niger-Delta Peoples Volunteer Front (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, by a Federal High Court in Abuja, Thursday, June 14, after spending almost two years in detention and, expectedly, the embrace is generating encouraging feedback from the militants and people of the region. Yar'Adua had, few days after he assumed office, invited the governors of the volatile states, Delta, Rivers and Bayelsa - Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Sir Celestine Omehia and Chief Timpre Sylva-Sam, to Abuja over the escalating cases of hostage taking in the region, where the governors told him that the release of Dokubo-Asari was a sine qua non for the return of peace to the troubled region.
INDICATION that the government of President Umaru Yar'Adua desires to tackle the Niger-Delta crisis was the freedom granted the leader of the Niger-Delta Peoples Volunteer Front (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, by a Federal High Court in Abuja, Thursday, June 14, after spending almost two years in detention and, expectedly, the embrace is generating encouraging feedback from the militants and people of the region. Yar'Adua had, few days after he assumed office, invited the governors of the volatile states, Delta, Rivers and Bayelsa - Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Sir Celestine Omehia and Chief Timpre Sylva-Sam, to Abuja over the escalating cases of hostage taking in the region, where the governors told him that the release of Dokubo-Asari was a sine qua non for the return of peace to the troubled region.
Daily Champion (Lagos)Lagos - Late last week, leader of the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF) Alhaji Mujaheed Asari-Dokubo weas granted bail by Abuja Federal High Court. CHUKWUDI OBI chronicles his travails and writes on the iplications of recent development: His report:
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Lagos — Late last week, leader of the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF) Alhaji Mujaheed Asari-Dokubo weas granted bail by Abuja Federal High Court. CHUKWUDI OBI chronicles his travails and writes on the iplications of recent development: His report:
This Day (Lagos)Abuja - The Action Congress (AC) and the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), have called on the Federal Government to in the spirit of fairness and equity, release the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) leader, Mr Ralph Uwaruzuike, who has been in detention for almost two years.
Daily Champion (Lagos)Yenagoa - HOPE that the release of Niger Delta militant leader, Alhaji Mujaheed Asari-Dokubo would bring peace in the troubled oil-rich region seemed dashed, following militants blowing-up of oil flow station in Bayelsa State last Saturday.