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Daily Independent (Lagos)Yenagoa - Joint Revolution Council (JRC)in the Niger Delta has demanded for the withdrawal of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF)for peace to reign in the area.
The group comprising the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Reformed Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force and Martyrs Brigade alleged that the military troops are a burden on the communities in which they were assigned to guard to ensure peace and security.
Leadership (Abuja)Yenagoa - A militia group known as the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) yesterday forwarded a memorandum to the Technical Committee on the Niger Delta, faulting the composition of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) and the parameters adopted by the fund for the award of scholarships in the region.
Port Harcourt — The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has distanced itself from the planned meeting with the Niger Delta Technical Committee, insisting that the only person that can speak on their behalf was their leader, Henry Okah.
Daily Independent (Lagos)
Yenagoa — Joint Revolution Council (JRC)in the Niger Delta has demanded for the withdrawal of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF)for peace to reign in the area.
Leadership (Abuja)
Yenagoa — A militia group known as the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) yesterday forwarded a memorandum to the Technical Committee on the Niger Delta, faulting the composition of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) and the parameters adopted by the fund for the award of scholarships in the region.
Vanguard (Lagos)Abuja - The Niger Delta Technical Committee set up by the Federal Government to address the socio-political crisis in the region is seeking the input of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and other militant groups in its reports/recommendations to be submitted to the government at the conclusion of its assignment.
Leadership (Abuja)The euphoria of great expectations of the Niger Delta Summit had come and gone, but its memory has not been forgotten, especially as it was marred by controversy over its leadership.
It was widely speculated that the appointment of Prof. Gambari as the chairman of the Steering Committee never represented the interest of the people of the region. This metamorphosed into setting up a 45-man Technical Committee led by Ledum Mitee to collate all the reports and filter a workable sketch for the region..
Abuja — The Niger Delta Technical Committee set up by the Federal Government to address the socio-political crisis in the region is seeking the input of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and other militant groups in its reports/recommendations to be submitted to the government at the conclusion of its assignment.
Vanguard (Lagos)MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) says President Yar'Adua's "nightmares" on the Niger-Delta, which he openly confessed, last weekend, won't end in a hurry, warning that the nightmares may develop to "insomnia and hallucinations" except the president accedes to the call by the militant group, Niger-Delta leaders and well-meaning Nigerians to put the nation on the path of true federalism, release its supposed leader, Henry Okah, and other freedom fighters from detention.
Vanguard (Lagos)The president admitted in Kaduna last weekend that the Niger Delta crisis was giving his government nightmares. It is indeed a litany of nightmares, especially from the arrowhead of militant groups in the region, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND.