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Leadership (Abuja)
Leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Alhaji Mujaheed Asari Dukobo, and fiery lawyer, Festus Keyamo, have approached an Abuja chief magistrate court with a suit seeking to bring former president Olusegun Obasanjo to trial over the killings of the Odi and Tiv people of Bayelsa state by federal troops on November 20, 1999.
Lagos — SUSPECTED militant leader, Awala Ezekiel who was declared wanted by the security agencies in Delta State in the aftermath of the April 15 attack on men of the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger_Delta by a militant group, the Deadly Underdogs is dead.
Lagos — CRUDE oil thieves in Nigeria have become even more daring with the authorities recording $100 million (about N11.7 billion) loss owing to rising incidences of crude oil theft from feedstock meant for domestic refining at the Warri and Kaduna refining and petrochemical companies, both subsidiaries of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Lagos — Oil prices hit an all-time high hovering near $120 a barrel Monday after militants attack in the Niger Delta left Shell unable to meet part of its April and May supply obligations and an ongoing strike by Mobil Nigeria workers shut-in yet an indeterminate proportion of the country's total output, while another strike closed a pipeline system that delivers a third of Britain's North Sea oil to refineries in the U.K.
GUNMEN, yesterday, invaded the Bonny Police station, killing an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), one Inspector, two Sergeants and one Constable.
The bandits made away with five rifles and two pistols from the station, according to the spokeswoman for the Police in the state, Mrs. Baresua Ireju. But she could not say if they successfully released any of the inmates.
Port Harcourt — The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has again crippled the crude oil pipeline at Kula River operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company in Akuku Toru Local Government Area, Rivers State.
Leadership (Abuja)
Abuja — An International Maritime Bureau (IMB) report for 2007 has revealed that Nigerian waters experienced an increased attack from pirates to as many as 42 times.
Leadership (Abuja)
Niger Delta — President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has directed that the Joint Task Force currently helping in the security of the volatile Niger Delta region be strengthened with a view to repositioning it to meet the growing security demands of the region.
Jos — A Federal High Court Judge, Justice Stephen Ada, presiding over the case of the leaders of the militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta( MEND), Messre. Henry Okah and Edward Atatah, has said there's nothing secret about the trial of the duo, and that was why he decided to address the press on the development after the trial.
Port Harcourt — Barely 72 hours after they crippled Adamakri crude flow line belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has again carried out a major attack, destroying oil pipelines in Isaka and Abonema, both in Rivers State.