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02/16/2009

Leadership (Abuja) Abuja — The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is yet to pay the outstanding remittances worth over N100 billion to the federation account. This amount was erroneously withheld by the past administration of the NNPC, which has not even submitted its plans towards the liquidation of the outstanding remittances.

02/14/2009

When the federal government, in its wisdom, thought that the best solution to the Niger Delta militancy was to meet force with force, little did it know the distance and mutations the violence could take. And that is the problem now.

02/14/2009

Jos — The Federal High Court sitting in Jos, Plateau State yesterday declined jurisdiction in handling the case of the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Mr. Henry Okah. Also yesterday, MEND threatened to attack installations operated by Italian companies in Nigeria.

02/14/2009

Daily Independent (Lagos) Jos — There was a twist in the celebrated case of the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, on Friday at the Federal High Court, Jos as the trial judge, Justice Stephen Adah, who has been trying the case since 2007, withdrew from the matter.

02/13/2009

Lagos — Citing the heightened insecurity, coupled with the threat by the militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to declare "sweeping assault" on the Nigerian oil and gas industry, companies operating in the region may have suspended further deployment of expatriate workers in the area pending when normalcy returns.

02/13/2009

Lagos — NIGERIA loses $17.8 billion on the average, annually, to crude oil theft as a result of lack of security in the nation's territorial waters. This was disclosed yesterday by Mr Olisa Agbakoba, a maritime lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) at this year's lecture and maritime recognition awards of the Nigerian Chamber of Shipping (NCS), where he also called for a review of the Nigerian shipping policy.

02/13/2009

Leadership (Abuja) The issue of insecurity in the Niger Delta region is assuming a more dangerous proportion, as the nation's oil workers insist on a nationwide strike after the House of Representatives brokered a truce with them. Royal Dutch Shell Plc, one of Nigeria's main oil giants had declared force majeure on oil loadings from its Bonny terminal in the country.

02/09/2009

Yenagoa — Bayelsa State Peace and Conflict Resolution Committee and Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), weekend, traded words over the ransom allegedly paid by former Minister of Energy, Edmund Daukoru ,on his wife, Gladys.

02/08/2009

Warri — The Joint Task Force (JTF), a military outfit in the Niger Delta, said yesterday it killed three militants during an operation to repel attack on the Utorogun Gas Plant in Delta State, which is operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).

02/06/2009

opinion In the wake of the death of alleged militant Tubotamuno 'Boy Chiki' Angolia at the hands of Nigeria's Joint Task Force (JTF), Chioma Oruh considers the consequences of the Nigerian state's crackdown on the militant efforts of organisations such as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). While much of the mainstream international press lauds the state for the stability (and enhanced official access to oil resources) achieved under the watch of the JTF, Oruh contemplates the inequity behind a system that will happily find funds to enforce order yet comes up empty in the face of local people's abject poverty.