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MOVEMENT for Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) has declared that the leader of the Niger-Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari is no longer vital in the type of skill and battle the militant group is carrying out at the moment in the Niger-Delta.
Lagos — European Union plans to boost aid to Nigeria in the next five years with a large portion aimed at supporting the OPEC member's security forces, a senior European official said on Friday.
The EU has proposed increasing its financial grants to Nigeria to 580 million euros through 2013, up nearly 30 percent from the existing aid package of 450 million euros, said Denis Thieulin, head of development for the European Commission in Nigeria.
Lagos — Gunmen in the restive Niger Delta appear to have changed their tactics as they shot at an Aero Contractor operated helicopter working for the Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) yesterday
The attack occured at the Tebidaba flow station in Southern Ijaw Council area of Bayelsa State.
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Governor Emmanuel Uduagha's peace and security programme - one of his three-point agenda - seems to be working magic in Delta State, making the once volatile state enjoy the most peaceful period in the last 10 years.
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THE table has turned against the Ijaw ethnic nationality and it is now losing the sympathy of the world as far as the Niger-Delta struggle is concerned because of the unashamed contamination of the agitation by criminals.
Leadership (Abuja)
The Action Congress (AC) and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), yesterday described as "deceitful" and "show of irresponsible governance", the claims by the Bayelsa State government that infiltration of militants into the local government council electoral process caused the indefinite postponement of the election in the state.
Daily Independent (Lagos)
Nigeria lost $12,600,000 (about N1.827 billion) on Wednesday, two days after Shell cut 180,000 barrels per day (bpd) from its production.
On top of that, there is a languid price of oil on the international market, which sank below $35 on Wednesday.
Lagos — The unabated crisis in the oil-rich Niger Delta has continued to take its toll on Shell Petroleum Development and Production Company (SPDC) and Nigeria's oil revenue, as the company has been forced to shut in production of 180,000 barrels per day ("bpd) of oil following renewed attacks on its facilities.
Yenagoa — Gunmen yesterday invaded the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company's (SPDC) facilities in the Nembe Creek in the Bayelsa East senatorial district injuring a private security guard.
Although information available to Vanguard was hazy at press time, it was, however, gathered that the gunmen that stormed the company's facilities were led by one dreaded militant leader simply identified as Kitikata, said to be holding sway in the Nembe Creek.
Lagos — The problems of the Niger Delta (ND) are well known and the struggle for justice for the people of the region is very justified. Around 1991, this struggle took a militant posture, and since then, neither the region nor Nigeria has known peace. Saro Wiwa and his peers fought a vibrant intellectual and moral campaign to draw attention of the Nigerian nation to the problem of the region, that did not yield much result, instead they were consumed in the struggle. The youths have now taken up arms in a most sophisticated and dangerous manner.