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Abuja — Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteers Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahideen Asari Dokubo yesterday slammed President Umaru Yar'Adua, claiming that he has kept alive some of the legacies of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Worri — Controller of the Movement of the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) in Bayelsa and Rivers states, Commander Ebi, yesterday, warned that militants would blow up the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC)'s Bonga Oil Field in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa state and other oil installations in the Niger-Delta region in the next few weeks if the Federal Government failed to swear-in ministerial nominee from the South-South, Mr. Godday Orubebe, who was left when others were inaugurated recently within a reasonable time.
Abuja — THE Nigerian Navy yesterday explained its version of the attack on its Warship in the Niger Delta by militants saying its personnel killed seven militants while one Naval personnel on 'lookout duty' was killed when the militants in four boats attempted to attack the ship, NNS Obula.
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Yenagoa — Suspected militants, in an early morning raid on a Naval ship protecting the SPDC Oil field on the high sea in a location between the Ekeremor and Southern Ijaw local government councils of Bayelsa State, shot dead a naval officer and seriously injured four others.
Port Harcourt/Yenagoa — In what looks like an upsurge in militant activities in the Niger Delta region, a Naval warship was yesterday attacked leaving one personnel dead and five other injured. The ship, NNS Obula, was deployed to secure the EA field, an offshore facility belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC)