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06/14/2007

Warri — NATIONAL President of the Anti-Hostage Taking/Corruption Volunteer Force in the Niger-Delta, Mr. Poweide Epigbagha, yesterday, claimed that his father's house at Ezebiri in Bomadi local government area of Delta State was destroyed by militants because he was assisting security agents with information on their activities.

06/12/2007

Warri — MILITANTS claiming to be speaking for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), yesterday, announced the release of all hostages in its custody in Bayelsa and Rivers States to the governors of both states, Chief Timipre Sylva-Sam and Sir Celestine Omehia respectively.

06/12/2007

IT is an unpleasant but acceptable reality that in every struggle, in the attempt to redress an unjust situation, human actors will play altruistic and mercenary roles in support and subversion of the struggle and this is why the community of activists in the Niger Delta are not surprised by the sudden surge of activities in relation to the crisis in the region.

06/12/2007

The Sangana Council of Chiefs of the Akassa Kingdom has called on the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) to urgently clean up the massive oil spill devastating the community. The community made the call after an emergency meeting in Sangana in the Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa state yesterday.

06/11/2007

Lagos — THE Sangana Council of Chiefs of the Akassa Kingdom has called on the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) to urgently clean up the massive oil spill devastating the community. The community made the call after an emergency meeting in Sangana in the Brass local government area of Bayelsa state weekend.

06/10/2007

opinion Nairobi — It had been coming for months we now know, but it was still a shock to hear it. Jeff Koinange "is no longer employed at CNN," said network spokeswoman Christa Robinson on May 29. "We are not commenting beyond that, there are several different people who will fill in for the time being."

06/09/2007

Abuja — President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has dispatched delegations around the globe to identify various leaders of the Niger Delta, and to seek their cooperation in the renewed effort at finding a lasting solution to the perennial problems in the oil-rich region.

06/05/2007

Yenagoa — One of the armed militant groups in Bayelsa State which penultimate weekend seized ten oil workers from a vessel lying pipelines off the Atlantic coast of Sangana in the Brass Local Government Area of the state has raised alarm over the failing health of their captives.

06/05/2007

Nairobi — The serious flaws witnessed during the electoral cycle could offer a more conducive environment, if not an invitation, to coup plotters and others who may wish to effect unconstitutional change of government

06/04/2007

Port Harcourt/ Akwa/ Lagos — In what is thought to be the first attack by militants on foreigners in Akwa Ibom State, gunmen yesterday kidnapped six Russian workers of United Company RUSAL, the Russian aluminum giant. The men's apartment was blown up and a Nigerian driver attached to them was killed, fuelling fears that militant attacks may be spreading into more areas in the Niger Delta. No previous armed attack had been recorded in Akwa Ibom.