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12/26/2008

Warri — NIGER DELTA leaders concurred, yesterday, on the appointment of the former Secretary to the Federal Government (SFG), Mr. Ufot Ekaette, as the Minister of Niger Delta and Elder Godsay Orubebe as the Minister of State in the ministry, but some expressed reservations about their ability to perform given the reality that the Federal Government allocated a disappointing N47 billion to the ministry in the 2009 Budget.

12/26/2008

Yenagoa — Three militants were killed and four others arrested yesterday when men of the military Joint Task force (JTF) engaged members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) in a gun battle at the Tebidaba oil flow station in Bayelsa State.

12/25/2008

Abuja — Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command yesterday said it had uncovered a plot by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to attack unspecified places and unnamed top politicians today, as Christians celebrate Christmas.

12/25/2008

Leadership (Abuja) Abuja — Threats by the militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday trigged nationwide security alert, with the police mounting a 24 hours surveillance in all parts of the country. LEADERSHIP exclusively reported yesterday about alleged plot by group of militants to blow up some instutitions in the Federal Capital Territory, including the Presidential Villa. But the Commissioner of Police (CP) of FCT Police Command, Mr. Haruna John challenged the militants yesterday to carry out their threat and meet their waterloo.

12/25/2008

Abuja — The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), yesterday, issued a warning that they would launch an attack on Federal Capital Territory (FCT) during Christmas celebration, vowing that the festive period, ending on New Year's day, would be one of confusion in Abuja.

12/25/2008

The Police in Abuja said they have uncovered plans by the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta to attack people. The Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police Jonh Haruna said at a press briefing in Abuja that MEND has recently planned to attack highly placed personalities in Abuja.

12/24/2008

column AFTER some political undercurrents, a substantive minister has been appointed for the newly created Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs. The ministry is one of several presidential palliatives planned to calm frayed nerves in the restive region. Though Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was set up for that purpose, but it appears to have been overwhelmed by the daunting challenges that threatened the nation's peace and security.

12/23/2008

Lagos — Counsel to the detained leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, Mr. Femi Falana,yesterday pleaded with President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to direct the Minister of Health to ensure that his client is flown to South Africa or any other country with adequate facilities for the treatment of his chronic kidney disease.

12/23/2008

Daily Independent (Lagos) opinion The issue of the Niger Delta Struggle has become a recurring decimal. Even with the death of the foremost Niger Delta agitator and nationalist, Isaac Adaka Boro, through the most recent in the persons of the Late Ken Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni Nine, the issue which people hitherto thought would have died down or completely washed away from the Nigeria political discourse due to the Odi massacre among other afore mentioned, has been given a fresh bite.

12/21/2008

Port Harcourt And Davidson Iriekpen in Lagos — President of the West African Bar Association (WABA) and counsel to the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, yesterday appealed to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Abdullahi Mustapha, to withdraw his client's case from the Jos division of the court.