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Daily Independent (Lagos)Port Harcourt - Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on Friday suspended the ceasefire accord it declared last year, provoked by what the movement called "unprovoked attack" on one of its leaders by operatives of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF).
This Day (Lagos)Lagos - Nigeria's largest oil producer, Shell, which until a few years ago was producing about 1 million barrels of crude oil a day from its operations in the Niger Delta, saw its output decline drastically to some 360,000 b/d in 2008.
Daily Independent (Lagos)Port Harcourt - Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on Friday suspended the ceasefire accord it declared last year, provoked by what the movement called "unprovoked attack" on one of its leaders by operatives of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF).
This Day (Lagos)Lagos - Nigeria's largest oil producer, Shell, which until a few years ago was producing about 1 million barrels of crude oil a day from its operations in the Niger Delta, saw its output decline drastically to some 360,000 b/d in 2008.
Daily Independent (Lagos)
Port Harcourt — Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on Friday suspended the ceasefire accord it declared last year, provoked by what the movement called "unprovoked attack" on one of its leaders by operatives of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF).
Catholic Information Service for Africa (Nairobi)
A Catholic priest was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in the oil-rich Niger Delta region in southern Nigeria on Sunday.
Father Pius Kii was abducted outside his Christ the King Parish in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. A police spokesman confirmed the kidnapping, but said that the circumstances remain unclear.
Vanguard (Lagos)As at yesterday evening, the picture was not very clear, but it was learnt that there was a shootout between the sea bandits and a militia group contacted by the officials of one of the local government councils in the state to retrieve the stolen items at Azagbene, near Egbema-Angalabiri.
Vanguard (Lagos)As at yesterday evening, the picture was not very clear, but it was learnt that there was a shootout between the sea bandits and a militia group contacted by the officials of one of the local government councils in the state to retrieve the stolen items at Azagbene, near Egbema-Angalabiri.
As at yesterday evening, the picture was not very clear, but it was learnt that there was a shootout between the sea bandits and a militia group contacted by the officials of one of the local government councils in the state to retrieve the stolen items at Azagbene, near Egbema-Angalabiri.
Vanguard (Lagos)Recently the rank of the militants in the Niger Delta has been depleted by a combination of the land and air raids on their strong hold. Most hit were their dens in the creeks that seemed impregnable some years ago.