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09/26/2007

Port Harcourt — Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force(NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari, has said Henry Okah, operating under the alias of Gbomo Jomo and spokesman for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), was responsible for bank robberies, hostage-taking, extortion and other crimes in the Niger Delta.

09/25/2007

Lagos — OPERATORS in the Nigerian oil and gas industry were jittery yesterday following reports that militants in the Niger Delta planned to resume attacks on oil personnel and facilities. However, government has assured that it would bring down the security tension that has affected production of about one million barrels of oil per day.

09/24/2007

Abuja — PRESIDENT Umaru Yar'Adua has directed security agencies to stop the incessant cases of hostage taking in the country forthwith. However, the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) has made fresh threats over the reported arrest of a militant, "Jomo Gbomo", in far away Angola.

09/24/2007

Leadership (Abuja) A leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Henry Okah is being detained in Angola for arms trafficking, according to his wife. The movement has also denied reports that its leader, John Gbomo was arrested while it aknowledged the arrest of Henry Okah who was detained in Angola after he was caught for arms trafficking.

09/24/2007

Port Harcourt — Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), has accused the Federal Government and Chevron, of framing up their leader, Henry Okah in Angola, warning of "dire consequencies," should any harm befall him.

09/24/2007

Port Harcourt — Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has warned against any attempt to frame indigenes of the oil-rich region with trump-up charges. The warning was contained in a press statement signed by groups spokesperson, made available to Daily Champion in Port Harcourt.

09/23/2007

Lagos — Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujaheed Dokubo-Asari yesterday described the presumed head of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Jomo Gbomo, arrested in Angola for arms deal weekend as a criminal.

09/22/2007

Lagos — The presumed head of the Niger Delta militant body, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, who goes under the name of Jomo Gbomo, has been arrested in Angola, sources said yesterday. Security sources who asked not to be identified said Gbomo was arrested by the Angolan authorities whilst negotiating an arms deal.

09/22/2007

Akure — WHEN people are kidnapped, as is now the fad, especially in the Niger Delta region, there is widespread anxiety over the fate of kidnap victims -- relations fret, loved ones worry, while the Police and other law enforcement agents have extra trouble they'd rather do without. At the end of the unpalatable incident, victims, when they regain their freedom usually tell tales of their ordeals which are mostly negative, in the hands of their captors.

09/18/2007

column Several weeks ago the militant group noted, until then, for its abduction of foreign workers working in the oil industry and their families in the Niger-Delta, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), issued an ominous statement warning the Ondo State government of Governor Olusegun Agagu to make good its promise and pay up some N500 million, being the agreed sum for an undisclosed undertaker job during the last governorship election in the state.