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12/30/2007

DOUBLE-crossing: IT was supposed to be a top secret document but, by hook or crook, the guarded memo with reference number, TFRH/25/G, written by the commander of the Joint Task Force (JTF), otherwise known as Operation Restore Hope, Effurun Barracks, Delta State, Major-General Lawrence Ngubane, to his boss, the chief of defence staff, CDS, on the operations of militants in the Niger-Delta and how the task force intends to checkmate them, leaked or, rather, got into the hands of the militants themselves.

12/27/2007

Lagos — LEADER of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Comrade Henry Okah, who was arrested and incarcerated since September 3 in Angola for alleged gun-running, has been moved from the smaller prison, Departemento de Investigaec Nacional and Criminal (DINC), Luanda, where he was detained in the first month of his arrest, to a bigger prison, Viena in Angola, and his family has no access to him.

12/26/2007

Lagos — MILITANTS and close associates of one of the leaders of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), Mr. Henry Okah who was taken into custody, September 3, by security agents in Angola have called for his release, saying that the allegations of gun-running against him were fabricated and his continued detention would spell calamity for the Federal Government in the Niger-Delta region in 2008.

12/23/2007

Lagos — MILITANTS in the Niger Delta have announced cease-fire on December 25. In an online statement to Sunday Vanguard signed by Jomo Gbomo, the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) said it was done in the spirit of Christmas.

12/23/2007

Port Harcourt — Following the breakdown of law and order in Okrika, a riverine surburb in Rivers State, where militants had recently bombed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the State Governor, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew, starting from 6pm to 6am with effect from last Friday.

12/23/2007

Lagos — THE feeling for sometime now was that that there was something amiss in the negotiations between the Federal Government and militants in the Niger-Delta given the way the peace process was going on, particularly, as some militant groups, intermittently, wreaked havoc on oil installations and kidnapped oil workers and Nigerians alike, including little boys and girls, for ransom.

12/23/2007

Leadership (Abuja) Abuja — The main rebel group in Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta, the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), announced a ceasefire yesterday and pledged not to attack oil facilities or kidnap foreigners on Christmas Day.

12/17/2007

Lagos — THE Move ment for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) have joined forces in condemning the Federal Government peace initiative in the Niger Delta. In separate reactions to the Federal Government initiative both groups accused the Federal Government of insincerity.

12/13/2007

Lagos — Kidnappers of father of the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Simon Ebebi, yesterday demanded N10 million ransom. Besides, the kidnappers also ask for immediate payment of N400,000 for logistics of kidnapping the old man and his upkeep until his release.

12/12/2007

Yenagoa — POLICE in Bayelsa state yesterday declared that two persons suspected to have abducted the father of the state deputy governor, Chief Simeon Ebebi, have been arrested. The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Mr. Iniobong Ibokette who disclosed this to Daily Champion said the suspects were apprehended Monday moments after the kidnap took place.