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09/23/2008

Port Harcourt — OPERATIVES of the Joint Military Task force (JTF), yesterday raided some villages in the Niger Delta, killing a 45-year-old man, Ayakeme Miebakedo, and arresting 69 others. During the invasion of Bolorna, Sagbama local government area of Bayelsa State, anoher suspect was shot while attempting to escape.

09/22/2008

THE military Joint Task Force (JTF) in Rivers State is not sucked in by yesterday's unilateral ceasefire declared by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) in its "oil war", and said it would treat the group's move with caution.

09/22/2008

Leadership (Abuja) The Joint Task Force deployed in the Niger Delta, said yesterday that it had uncovered a plot by militants to cause mayhem and destabilise Rivers state. Its spokesman, Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that militant groups had started recruiting youths to replace those already killed by men of the task force.

09/22/2008

Port Harcourt — Militants in the Niger Delta who had taken on the Joint Task Force (JTF) in a war to cripple oil facilities in the region have temporarily suspended attacks, citing the intervention of some eminent Niger Delta leaders.

09/22/2008

Royal Dutch Shell Corporation said yesterday that Nigeria's crude oil is not the most profitable and that attacks on its facilities by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) would not hold significant impact on its gross earnings.

09/21/2008

Amid the fears that the 'oil war' declared by the militant group, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, may spread from Rivers State, other states of the region, weekend, took steps to contain the rampaging militants.

09/21/2008

analysis Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the fear-provoking militia in the Niger-Delta, has countered the announcement of the Defence Headquarters, DHQ, that the "oil war,"christened, "Hurricane Barborossa", which it declared, Sunday, September 14, was a sheer propaganda, saying "the military is deluding itself" by playing down the current cataclysm in the region.

09/21/2008

Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, may have quietly agreed to ceasefire as a high ranking leader of the militant group has reportedly acceded to the demand by Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, for cessation of hostilities before the Federal Government would attend to the MEND's demands.

09/21/2008

The buzz in the Nigerian media last week is not, though it draws its own fair share of attention, the "oil wars" of the Niger delta. It is not that the escalation of this conflict by the militants engaged in guerrilla activity with government forces signals a strategic departure with security implications for the region. Indeed it is not that the spokesman of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has indicated a willingness to expand the campaign of terror to other neighbouring states as the pressure of the conflict mounts.

09/21/2008

At least, twenty suspected robbers have been apprehended by the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta MEND in Ondo State two weeks after they allegedly invaded a divisional police station in Irele local government area of the state.