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Vanguard (Lagos)Lagos - OWING to a routine shut-in, 225,000 barrels of crude oil output per day Nigeria output would go offline for a 10 days period in March when Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO) commences maintenance on the Bonga offshore oilfield.
Lagos — OWING to a routine shut-in, 225,000 barrels of crude oil output per day Nigeria output would go offline for a 10 days period in March when Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO) commences maintenance on the Bonga offshore oilfield.
opinion
The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) concludes that the mission of Africa Command (Africom) infringes on the sovereignty of African states due to the particularity of Africa's history and Africa's current economic and political relationship to the United States.
Leadership (Abuja)
Militants in Nigeria's restive oil region on Saturday invited film star and peace activist, George Clooney, to visit Nigeria's restive oil region and ask for UN intervention in the conflict. UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, designated Clooney as a UN messenger of peace to promote the world body's activities, especially in its far-flung peacekeeping missions.
Vanguard (Lagos)Lagos - Lieutenant-Colonel Sagir Musa is the spokesman for the Joint Task Force that has been put in place to restore order in Rivers State. In this interview with Saturday Vanguard, he speaks on the efforts of the body to address the security problem in the state. He also maintained that the operation has been largely successful as the body has not encountered any major crisis since last year.
interview
Lagos — Lieutenant-Colonel Sagir Musa is the spokesman for the Joint Task Force that has been put in place to restore order in Rivers State. In this interview with Saturday Vanguard, he speaks on the efforts of the body to address the security problem in the state. He also maintained that the operation has been largely successful as the body has not encountered any major crisis since last year.
This Day (Lagos)Port Harcourt - Militants yesterday in the Niger Delta introduced a new dimension to trade when they threw dynamite into the convoy of the Nigerian Ports Authority South East General Manager, Mr. Sotoye Etomi killing his driver and injuring two police escorts.
Port Harcourt — Militants yesterday in the Niger Delta introduced a new dimension to trade when they threw dynamite into the convoy of the Nigerian Ports Authority South East General Manager, Mr. Sotoye Etomi killing his driver and injuring two police escorts.
This Day (Lagos)Lagos - Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), yesterday stated that the only condition to halt hostilities in the oil-rich region is if one of its leaders, held for gun running in Angola, is released.
The group, which is behind the spate of attacks on oil facilities and kidnappings in the area, claimed that its fighters detonated "a remote explosive device" that sparked off the fire that killed about 30 persons on Saturday in Port Harcourt, as well as Thursday's attack on four ships in the Bonny Channel, Nigeria's largest oil and gas export terminal.
This Day (Lagos)Port Harcourt - The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Eastern Operations Manager, Mr. Sotonye Etomi yesterday formally debunked the claim of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) to have bombed the vessel which exploded in Port Harcourt three days ago and blamed it on electrical problems.