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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.
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.
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.
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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:
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.
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.
IT was wild jubilation in most parts of Rivers State Thursday when news of the conditional release of the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, by an Abuja High Court filtered into the state. Asari, as he is fondly called, had spent exactly one year, eight months and twenty-five days in detention at the federal capital.
Port Harcourt — The Joint Revolutionary Council, (JRC) a clearing house for most of the militant groups in the Niger Delta yesterday announced cessation of all hostilities against the Nigerian State and its allied interests following the release on bail of their leader, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari.
Yenagoa — Less than 24 hours after the release of the militant Ijaw leader Mujahid Asari Dokubo suspected Niger Delta militants have kidnapped a Polish national at Kaiama in the Kolokuma-Opokuma local government area of Bayelsa State .
Lagos — The Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday granted bail to the leader of the dreaded Niger Delta Peoples Volunteers Force (NDPVF), Mujahid Asari Dokubo. But it was a conditional bail. The release, however, excited Ijaw Leaders who said it was capable of brightening chances for peace in the troubled Niger Delta region.