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02/21/2008

Port Harcourt — The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has asked the Federal Government to allow an independent team to verify its claim that one of their their leaders, Henry Okah has not been killed.

02/21/2008

Lagos — THE Nigeria Police yesterday described as false reports that Mr. Henry Okah of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), had died in its custody. The police said Okah who was recently extradited to the country after he was arrested while negotiating for the purchase of gun boats and ground to air missiles to be used in destabilising peace in the Niger Delta was not tortured as claimed by MEND.

02/20/2008

Kaduna — The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has said one of its leaders, Henry Okah (aka Jomo Gbomo), who was extradited last week from Angola, died from gunshot wounds yesterday in a military hospital in Kaduna.

02/19/2008

MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) yesterday expressed fears over the fate of one of its leaders, Henry Okah who was extradited from Angola to Nigeria, last Thursday. MEND in a statement, signed by Jomo Gbomo, last night night, said, "Disturbing reports just reaching us suggests that Henry Okah succumbed to injuries from gun shot wounds at about 0400 hrs today, (yesterday) February 19, 2007 at a military hospital in Kaduna State of Nigeria after he was shot in what those interrogating him claimed was an 'accidental discharge' from the automatic weapon from one of the guards".

02/18/2008

Port Harcourt — Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has petitioned American President George Bush, who is currently touring Africa, advising that the only route to peace was release of its leader, Henry Okah alias Gbomo Jomo.

02/17/2008

Port Harcourt — The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has threatened to carry out random attacks on senior military officers from the rank of Brigadier-General, if Mr. Henry Okah, deported from Angola over alleged terrorism, is manhandled by the authorities.

02/16/2008

Leadership (Abuja) Abuja — The main rebel group in Nigeria, Movement for the Emancipation of Niger delta (MEND), yesterday said one of its leaders who had been in detention in Angola for alleged gun-running had been extradited to Nigeria by the Angolan government.

02/16/2008

Port Harcourt — Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday claimed that the Angolan government had secretly extradited Mr. Henry Okah, one of its chieftains, to Nigeria. Okah had been in detention in Angola for five months for allegedly going against the laws of the country.

02/15/2008

Leadership (Abuja) Lagos — The activities of militants in the troubled Niger Delta area of Nigeria assumed a frightening dimension recently, when the entire family of Mr. Ehikelen Happy in Effurun, near Warri in Delta State was attacked by unknown gunmen making family members to flee for their dear lives.

02/12/2008

Leadership (Abuja) Port Harcourt — Unknown gunmen attacked at least two energy industry ships in Nigeria yesterday, killing one sailor on a naval escort vessel, authorities said. It was the second wave of armed attacks on shipping in Nigeria's busiest oil and gas export hub in two months.