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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Abuja — The Action Congress (AC) has expressed serious concern over the worsening crisis in the Niger Delta and called for a new thinking and urgent action to bring the oil region back from the brink.
In a statement issued in Abuja Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said fresh threats by the militant groups to escalate the crisis and the tough talk by the military to counter them could trigger a slow-motion insurgency that could throw Nigeria into a deep political, social and economic crisis.
ELDERS and chiefs of the Okrika community in Rivers State have disowned warlord Ateke Tom and said his activities have brought them shame.
Ateke himself said yesterday he was ceasing fire in his attacks on parts of the state while the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is seeking the intervention of the United Nations (UN) in getting its leader, Henry Okah, released from detention in Angola.
Port Harcourt — The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has claimed responsibility for the explosion that rocked an oil vessel, MV Golden Lucy in the early hours of yesterday in Port Harcourt, where two people were injured.