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11/18/2007

Riyadh — THE Federal Government has served notice to source $3.8 billion (about N463.6 billion) to meet a shortfall in funding requirements for oil and gas projects next year. This is besides the $4.97 billion budgetary allocation to fund government cash call obligations for joint venture projects in the oil and gas sector in 2008.

11/18/2007

Riyadh — THE Federal Government has served notice to source $3.8 billion (about N463.6 billion) to meet a shortfall in funding requirements for oil and gas projects next year. This is besides the $4.97 billion budgetary allocation to fund government cash call obligations for joint venture projects in the oil and gas sector in 2008.

11/17/2007

Port Harcourt — The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is claiming responsibility for Thursday's attack on an oil pipeline owned by Shell Petroleum Development Company at the Forcados export terminal in Delta State.

11/17/2007

Port Harcourt — Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) has broken the unwritten pact, which the Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, had with militants in the state not to attack oil installations in the state following the unexpected bombing, Thursday, of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) crude oil delivery pipeline to the Forcados Export Terminal in Delta State.

11/16/2007

Leadership (Abuja) Abuja — Leader of the Movement of the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Alhaji Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, has added his voice to those calling for the resignation of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Professor Maurice Iwu.

11/16/2007

Port Harcourt — MILITANTS in the early hours of yesterday blew up with explosives a crude oil delivery pipeline, belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Delta State amidst fears that the execution of the multi-billion dollars Escravos Gas-to-Liquid project of the American oil giant, Chevron Nigeria Limited, may be truncated following a fresh threat by the people of oil-rich Ugborodo community, Warri South West local government area.

11/16/2007

Lagos — THE Federal Government yesterday reacted to accusations by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) that Nigerian soldiers attacked their Cameroonian counterparts because they were sympathetic to their (MEND's) cause.

11/15/2007

Lagos — Barely 24 hours after some 22 Cameroonian soldiers were felled by gunmen in the Bakassi Peninsula, Nigeria and Cameroon have pledged to work together to find out the killers of the 21 soldiers. But sources have claimed that the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta is behind the attack.

11/06/2007

Lagos — MILITANTS in the riverine area of Ondo State, yesterday, kidnapped the Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Isaacs Kekemeke, during the PDP ward congresses held across the country. He was, however, freed after spending about six hours in captivity

11/06/2007

Lagos — Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Asari Dokubo, yesterday, accused President Umaru Yar'Adua of sustaining some of the legacies of former President Olusegun Obasanjo even as he revealed the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) to be a fictitious and nebulous organisation.