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11/22/2008

From a dingy underground cell in Bauchi, leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Mr Henry Okah, yesterday raised an alarm over his failing health, alleging that the Federal Government was planning to kill him.

11/22/2008

Yenagoa — The relative peace of the Bayelsa East senatorial district coastal enclave was again tested yesterday as members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta and the military were locked in violent shoot out.

11/22/2008

Kaduna — Following the proliferation of militant activities in the troubled Niger Delta region and subsequent clashes with Nigerian law enforcement officers, it has often been noted that the militants are armed with superior firearms.

11/22/2008

Daily Independent (Lagos) The recent arrest by Nigerian security operatives of 22 Filipinos for alleged involvement in illegal oil bunkering in Delta State has once again brought to the front burner the booming illegal oil deals going on in the Niger Delta region.

11/21/2008

Assumed leader of the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), Henry Okah whose trial had been rescheduled for December 4, Wednesday, in Abuja refused an attempt by government officials to repeat the medical tests that had been carried out on him earlier concerning his kidney ailment, alleging it was a clever plot to falsify the results of earlier tests.

11/20/2008

The trial of leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) Henry Okah scheduled to resume on November 21 has now been shifted to December 4. The resumed trial would have assessed the state of his health following the approval of the court presided over by Justice Stephen Adah to undergo medical examination to assess the state of his health.

11/20/2008

opinion Late Cyprian Ekwensi, prolific Nigerian novelist, might not have been a paragon in the domain of fiction, at least not in the opinion of Eustace Palmer, Sierra Leonean critic who described Ekwensi's works as "a perfect example of how not to write fiction."

11/19/2008

Daily Independent (Lagos) On Tuesday, the General Court Martial (GCM) in Kaduna sentenced to life imprisonment Major Suleiman Alabi Akubo and five other soldiers for selling arms to the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).

11/19/2008

Kaduna — Six soldiers, among them a Major, were yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment by a General Court Martial (GCM) sitting at the Officer's Mess, One Division, Kaduna, for illegally dealing in arms. Two others, Corporals Kola David and Aliyu Mohammed, charged alongside the six, were demoted to the rank of private.

11/19/2008

Leadership (Abuja) Abuja — A ten-man military court martial headed by Brig-Gen. Bala Usara, yesterday in Kaduna, sentenced Major Sulaiman Alabi Akubo and five other soldiers to life imprisonment for illegally selling arms worth over N100 million to Niger Delta militants.