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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.
This Day (Lagos)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.
This Day (Lagos)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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vanguard (Lagos)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.
This Day (Lagos)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.
This Day (Lagos)Lagos - Member countries of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have implemented nearly two-thirds of the production cuts of 4.2 million barrels per day (b/d) agreed by the group last September.
OPEC's decision is coming against the backdrop of declining output at Bonny Light Crude Terminal, in Rivers State, operated by Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L which has fallen to around 90,000 barrels per day because of security concerns in the Niger Delta, a senior official with state-run Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said yesterday.