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12/31/2008

Daily Independent (Lagos) Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Limited on Tuesday reported of a fire incident at its Bomu Well 44 located in Ogoniland in Rivers State. According to the company's spokesman, Precious Okolobo, the fire, which affected one of its dormant wells in the area, began in the evening of last Monday.

12/30/2008

Port Harcourt — Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has threatened an all out oil war in the next few weeks for what it called government display of insincerity over its promises to peacefully resolve issues that led to the Niger Delta crisis.

12/30/2008

The Joint Task force has arrested two prominent Bayelsans over their involvement in the Christmas day attack on the Tebidaba flow station belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) in which some lives were lost. Though the JTF had linked the Christmas day attack to the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) which the latter had since denied but informed sources told Vanguard that the attack was actually carried out by some community youths for their selfish interest with a view to compelling the Italian oil giant to settle them for the yuletide celebrations.

12/30/2008

Niger Delta — MOVEMENT for Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), yesterday, told the Minister of State for Niger-Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe, who has requested for a visit to some of its field commanders in the creeks that he is jeopardizing his life by embarking on such trips to militant camps when Henry Okah is still in captivity.

12/30/2008

Daily Independent (Lagos) Port Harcourt — Tension has risen a notch higher in Buguma, Rivers State, the country home of Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, after Sunday night's arrest of a militant leader from the area, Sogboma Jackrich, popularly known as Egberipapa, by the Joint Task Force (JTF).

12/29/2008

THE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), weekend, denied that its fighters were involved in the attack on the Agip-operated Tebidaba flow station in Bayelsa State on December 25, 2008, as alleged by the military Joint Task Force (JTF).

12/29/2008

Daily Independent (Lagos) column Akwa Ibom is a blessed state, located in the rain forest and Bible belt of Nigeria. It has a lot of natural resources but the most important are crude oil and Chief Ufot Ekaette.

12/28/2008

Leadership (Abuja) Abuja — Police reports making the rounds in Abuja that the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) will attack the Federal Capital Territory a the Christmas period are false, MEND's public relations officer Jomo Gbomo said.

12/28/2008

column THEY are taken unawares at odd hours by balaclava wearing youths and whisked away to unknown destinations by their captors, leaving on their trail anguish and sorrow. A ransom note is posted and loved ones rally round to meet the demand.

12/27/2008

Daily Independent (Lagos) Yenagoa — Three members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) were reported killed, while four injured persons were arrested when they clashed with men of the Joint Task Force (JTF) on Boxing Day at Tedibada in Bayelsa State.