08/30/2007

Daily Champion (Lagos)Lagos - An Ijaw leader and Chairman of the Kalabaris' Elders Council, Chief Anab Sara-Igbe spoke to journalists recently in Lagos on the genesis of the Niger Delta crisis especially the current Port Harcourt violence. He proffered some solutions to the recurring unrest. Olatubosun Sowmimo was there. Excerpt:

08/30/2007

interview Lagos — An Ijaw leader and Chairman of the Kalabaris' Elders Council, Chief Anab Sara-Igbe spoke to journalists recently in Lagos on the genesis of the Niger Delta crisis especially the current Port Harcourt violence. He proffered some solutions to the recurring unrest. Olatubosun Sowmimo was there. Excerpt:

08/28/2007

Vanguard (Lagos)Warri - MOVEMENT for Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) yesterday, said it had uncovered plan by Nigerian security agencies in connivance with the Presidency to decimate some Ijaw communities in the Niger-Delta, warning that militants would resume fresh hostilities if the plot was not aborted.

08/28/2007

Warri — MOVEMENT for Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) yesterday, said it had uncovered plan by Nigerian security agencies in connivance with the Presidency to decimate some Ijaw communities in the Niger-Delta, warning that militants would resume fresh hostilities if the plot was not aborted.

08/23/2007

Vanguard (Lagos)Warri - PRESIDENT of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide, Dr. Chris Ekiyor says only the Ijaw National Congress (INC), currently headed by Prof Kimse Okoko and the IYC, can speak for the Ijaw nation and not the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) or any other group.

08/23/2007

Warri — PRESIDENT of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide, Dr. Chris Ekiyor says only the Ijaw National Congress (INC), currently headed by Prof Kimse Okoko and the IYC, can speak for the Ijaw nation and not the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) or any other group.

08/21/2007

Vanguard (Lagos)Lagos - For several decades after the discovery of crude oil in the Niger-Delta the area was rightly seen as the underdog region of the Nigerian state. No thanks to its vast oil resources whose benefits were nowhere reflected in the everyday existence of the people that inhabit the area nor in the environment.

08/21/2007

column Lagos — For several decades after the discovery of crude oil in the Niger-Delta the area was rightly seen as the underdog region of the Nigerian state. No thanks to its vast oil resources whose benefits were nowhere reflected in the everyday existence of the people that inhabit the area nor in the environment.

08/20/2007

This Day (Lagos)Port Harcourt - Spokesperson of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Gbomo Jomo has said that contrary to the much held view that most of the dead in the crack down on cultists and militants in Port Harcourt, Rivers State were cultists, the death toll was more of innocent civilian casualties.

08/20/2007

Port Harcourt — Spokesperson of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Gbomo Jomo has said that contrary to the much held view that most of the dead in the crack down on cultists and militants in Port Harcourt, Rivers State were cultists, the death toll was more of innocent civilian casualties.

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