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04/22/2008

Lagos — The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has claimed responsibility for yesterday's attack on pipelines belonging to Shell and Cheveron in Isaka and Abonema (close to Idama flow station) of Rivers State.

04/19/2008

Leadership (Abuja) Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, (MEND) has warned oil companies working along the coastal region of Nigeria to be ready for war, just as it said the military was not in a position to protect them.

04/19/2008

Port Harcourt — The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has claimed that its fighters on Thursday destroyed a major pipeline belonging to Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) at Adamakiri in Rivers State.

04/15/2008

Abuja — In a demonstration of support for prominent Niger Delta militant Henry Okah, who the government put in trial in early April, militant leaders have said that they will escalate armed conflict. "We have pulled out of any peace talks, we have not disarmed so there really is no progress since Henry's arrest," the spokesman for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) who goes by the name of Jomo Gbomo wrote in an e-mail to IRIN on 13 April.

04/15/2008

OGULAGHA and Odimodi communities in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta, which were given a 48 hour ultimatum, expiring today (Wednesday) by the Joint Task Force on the Niger-Delta, Monday, to mutually produce the youths that bombed two Agip oil wells in Beniboye, last Saturday, have refused to meet on the directive.

04/13/2008

Port Harcourt — Outlaw and wanted leader of the Niger Delta Vigilante Movement, Tom Ateke and a known fighter of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) simply called Boylov have planned to cripple the multi-billion Bonga field, offshore of the country.

04/09/2008

Lagos — THE South-South Elements Progressive Union (SSEPU) yesterday endorsed the trial of Mr. Henry Okah of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) but warned against secrecy in the trial. The national chairman of the group, Mr. Joe Ambakerderimo in an interview expressed confidence that the trial of Mr. Okah would not in any way truncate the ongoing peace ventures in the Niger Delta region.

04/08/2008

Leadership (Abuja) Abuja — Chief Edwin Clark yesterday condemned the secret trial of the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, at a Federal High Court in Jos.

04/08/2008

Lagos — THE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), yesterday raised alarm over an alleged plot to poison its detained leader, Henry Okah, just as another group, the Niger Delta Musketeers, has threatened renewed violence if he is not tried in public.

04/07/2008

Lagos — NIGERIAN is a living proof of the Biblical saying that when a good man is on the throne the people rejoice. But when an evil man is there, sorrowing and widespread gnashing of teeth would obtain. By the time former President Olusegun Obasanjo had spent the length of time that President Umaru Musa Yar' Adua has been on the seat of power, this nation was boiling over with crises.