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07/29/2008

Port Harcourt — The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), claimed on yesterday that "heavily armed fighters" have attacked two pipelines belonging to the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Kula, Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State.

07/29/2008

Leadership (Abuja) Militants in Niger Delta continued their attack on oil facilities yesterday when they blew up two major oil pipelines belonging to Royal Dutch Shell, forcing the firm to halt some production, which helped push world oil prices higher.

07/28/2008

opinion START by asking: which Yar'Adua? And my answer is: not President Umaru Musa Yar Adua. Not yet. I am referring to Mallam Abubakar Lawal Yar'Adua, the Acting Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the nation's most strategic corporate entity.

07/27/2008

THE Minister for Culture and Tourism Prince Adetokunbo Kayode SAN and the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State weekend described the judgment of the Election Petition Tribunal sitting in the state ousting Governor Olusegun Agagu as shocking and a great disappointment.Speaking with newsmen in Akure the Minister for Culture and Tourism Prince Tokunbo Kayode SAN and the state Secretary of the Party Hon Olusola Oludipe who were reacting to the judgment said that all the allegations in the petition were not proved beyond reasonable doubt.

07/27/2008

Speaker of the House of Representative, Dimeji Bankole has warned that spiraling violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta is now a major national security threat. Bankole gave that warning in an interview with the Voice of America (VOA) at the weekend hours after gunmen abducted eight oil workers in three separate incidents. They include five Russians, one Filipino, and two Nigerians.

07/27/2008

THE Minister of Culture and Tourism, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, SAN, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State, yesterday, described the judgment of the Election Petition Tribunal ousting Governor Olusegun Agagu as shocking and a great disappointment.But the Action Congress (AC) in the state and the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) hailed the verdict.

07/27/2008

Leadership (Abuja) In a report monitored by LeadershipSunday, two Nigerian children, aged two and four, died yesterday while trying to reach Italy on a boat carrying 75 illegal immigrants. The bodies of the two children were thrown into the sea, their father (names withheld) told the crew of an Italian coast guard launch that rescued the group.

07/26/2008

Should the Federal Government of Nigeria bring in British soldiers for the purpose of containing the violence in the Niger Delta, Nigeria will be seized by an uncontrollable violence. In fact, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) will open talks with Colombian and other African rebels to fight the coalition in that region.

07/26/2008

"GENERAL" Boyloaf, one of the top officers of the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the insurrectionary group that is waging "war" against the Nigerian state for under-developing the region, talks from his heart whenever the issue has to do with the Niger-Delta "struggle".

07/24/2008

The management of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday denied paying $6m to militants in the troubled Niger Delta region, stating instead that its commitment to the empowerment of communities in its area of operations is a way of sustaining its services to the people.