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Leadership (Abuja)Tragedy was yesterday averted by the police in Abuja, as six hefty-looking youths suspected to be members of the dreaded Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) stormed the residence of the Minister of Transportation, Mrs. Dieziani Allison-Madueke, apparently in a bid to kidnap her.
Leadership (Abuja)
Tragedy was yesterday averted by the police in Abuja, as six hefty-looking youths suspected to be members of the dreaded Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) stormed the residence of the Minister of Transportation, Mrs. Dieziani Allison-Madueke, apparently in a bid to kidnap her.
Daily Trust (Abuja)Lagos - After 48 years of Nigeria's independence from British colonialism, the Nigerian national question rather than get an answer has rather got bigger.
Elder statesman, Pa Anthony Enahoro in a telephone interview with our correspondent said that this has become so because the consolidation of the Nigerian democracy has been bedevilled by lack of concrete consensus and participatory process that could guarantee popular template for democratic governance and this precisely is the crux of the limitation that has so far hindered the emergence of a popular national roadmap to political stability.
Leadership (Abuja)
The Court of Appeal sitting in Jos, Plateau State, may have reversed itself on an order purportedly granting to the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah to appeal the ruling of a Jos Federal High Court.
Leadership (Abuja)
Nigeria's army is on high alert in the oil-producing Niger Delta, carrying out helicopter and gunboat patrols in its creeks, despite a ceasefire declared by the region's main militant group.
This Day (Lagos)Abuja - Officials of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and Ijaw Leader, Chief Edwin Clark yesterday accused the federal government and the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta of breaching the terms and conditions of the ceasefire declared Monday by the militants to stop the 'oil war'.
Daily Champion (Lagos)Yenagoa - The recent ceasefire by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), was yesterday threatened, following a alleged air raids by operatives of the Joint Military Taskforce on the camps of two militia groups, the Niger Delta Patriotic Force (NDPF) and the Niger Delta Vigilante (NDV).
Abuja — Officials of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and Ijaw Leader, Chief Edwin Clark yesterday accused the federal government and the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta of breaching the terms and conditions of the ceasefire declared Monday by the militants to stop the 'oil war'.
Yenagoa — The recent ceasefire by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), was yesterday threatened, following a alleged air raids by operatives of the Joint Military Taskforce on the camps of two militia groups, the Niger Delta Patriotic Force (NDPF) and the Niger Delta Vigilante (NDV).
Vanguard (Lagos)Crude oil production has dropped by 200,000 barrels per day owing to a fresh wave of militant attacks which commenced a week ago, leaving Nigeria's total output down from 2.2million barrels per day to 2.0 million barrels per day.