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Leadership (Abuja)
South-east People's Assembly(SEPA) yesterday implored the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) to adopt a peaceful strategy in the struggle for the liberation of the region instead of using force and militant activities.
Port Harcourt And Juliana Taiwo in Abuja — The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) has threatened to make the Democracy day celebrations a bloody one for President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua as they have allegedly concluded plans to detonate car bombs in some Niger Delta States.
Port Harcourt — Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday said that it destroyed the Awoba flow station belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) where it claimed to have killed 11 soldiers.
Lagos — THE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday attacked a major trunk pipeline belonging to Shell at Awoba flow station in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State.
It claimed to have killed 11 soldiers in the attack and sunk their boat.
Leadership (Abuja)
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has once again claimed responsibility for an attack on a major oil pipeline yesterday in Rivers State and the killing of 11 soldiers in the process, in spite of denials on the said casualties from the military Joint Task Force (JTF) in the state.
Lagos — The Bayelsa State chapter of the Niger Delta Peace and Conflict Resolution Committee yesterday described the threat issued by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) in the state on the planned attack on oil pipelines in the state as "misplaced".
Leadership (Abuja)
Yenagoa — Bayelsa State chapter of the Niger Delta Peace and Conflict Resolution Committee yesterday described the threat issued by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on the planned attack on Oil pipelines in the State as "misplaced", insisting that those involved in the plot have resolved to retrace their position and work for the sustenance of the peace deal reached with the state government.
Port Harcourt — Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has dismissed as 'laughable' the proposal by the Federal Government that militant groups would be entrusted with the protection of petroleum pipelines against vandalisation.
analysis
Kampala — In spite of her thirst for African oil and hunger for Africa's emerging markets, China has not matched her economic forays in the continent with a military presence even as the USA tries to establish its African Command, writes policy analyst Patrick Mutahi.
Abuja — President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has said the constant rumour about his state of health only goes to prove that he is "only human and not super human" as many are wont to believe, maintaining that he is fit enough to be president.