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01/14/2009

As militants kidnap Deputy GM of Total, BOY Chike, an alleged commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) was reportedly killed yesterday in Bakana. Details of the incident was hazy at press time.

01/14/2009

MOVEMENT for Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) and the Ijaw Elders Council in Delta State, yesterday, faulted the claim by the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta that two soldiers were killed by gunmen at a military location in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State, Monday, saying the soldiers fired at each other and died.

01/14/2009

Daily Independent (Lagos) Lagos — Despite the creation of a Niger Delta ministry and the eventual appointment of a minister and deputy minister from the zone, reactions to the ministry's budget allocation and urgent call for the implementation of the Mitee Technical Committee report show that the volatile oil belt will remain a sensitive political issue in 2009.

01/12/2009

Lagos — Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday released pictures of two British hostages it has been holding for four months, and said it would continue to kidnap European and U.S. oil workers until its demands are met.

01/12/2009

opinion Lagos — What could be regarded as one of the high points of Yar'Adua's administration in the year that has just ended was the setting up of the Niger Delta Ministry, considered by many an analyst as a pragmatic response to the crying needs of the neglected region for infrastructural development and economic empowerment of her people.

01/05/2009

JOINT Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta and the Delta Waterways and Security Committee (DWSC) have intensified the manhunt for the bomb-throwing pipeline vandals who blew up an Agip pipeline at Okuntun community, between Ogulagha and Odimodi communities in Delta , last Friday.

01/04/2009

Warri — Violence resurfaced in the Niger Delta region at the weekend when an oil pipeline was blown up by some aggrieved youths. The pipeline vandalisation took place at Okuntun, a riverside settlement between Odimodi and Ogulagha, in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State. The vandals were believed to have used explosives suspected to be dynamites.

01/04/2009

Akure — Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) over the weekend said it had declared war against bad eggs within the group, including those that were engaging in kidnapping in Akwa-Ibom State and other parts of the region.

01/03/2009

MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) has written off the new Ministry of Niger-Delta, saying it has no faith in the ministry. The militants also warned the two Ministers, Chief Ufot Ekaette (Minister of Niger-Delta) and Elder Godsday Orubebe (Minister of State for Niger-Delta) not to allow themselves to be used as spies and traitors.

01/03/2009

Lagos — Factional members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has given both the police and the River State government a two-week ultimatum to produce one of their members allegedly arrested at the wake of a fresh violence in the state last year.