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Daily Trust (Abuja)Mujahid Asari Dokubo was leader of the Niger Delta armed struggle. In this interview, he explains that the armed struggle has failed to make the required impact on the embattled region and that kidnappers should be killed, among other matters bothering the region.
Daily Trust (Abuja)Mujahid Asari Dokubo was leader of the Niger Delta armed struggle. In this interview, he explains that the armed struggle has failed to make the required impact on the embattled region and that kidnappers should be killed, among other matters bothering the region.
This Day (Lagos)Lagos - Whatever politicians may say, this is not the time to focus the attention of the polity on another election. It is time to perform. For the President and most of the governors, in particular, this year is crucial for them to deliver on the promises made to the electorate, the basis of which they presumably got the mandate they are exercising. In this respect, those who seem more concerned about a second term for President Umaru Yar'Adua are, unwittingly, by their action and pronouncements engendering cynicism in the polity.
This Day (Lagos)Lagos - Whatever politicians may say, this is not the time to focus the attention of the polity on another election. It is time to perform. For the President and most of the governors, in particular, this year is crucial for them to deliver on the promises made to the electorate, the basis of which they presumably got the mandate they are exercising. In this respect, those who seem more concerned about a second term for President Umaru Yar'Adua are, unwittingly, by their action and pronouncements engendering cynicism in the polity.
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Lagos — Whatever politicians may say, this is not the time to focus the attention of the polity on another election. It is time to perform. For the President and most of the governors, in particular, this year is crucial for them to deliver on the promises made to the electorate, the basis of which they presumably got the mandate they are exercising. In this respect, those who seem more concerned about a second term for President Umaru Yar'Adua are, unwittingly, by their action and pronouncements engendering cynicism in the polity.
Business Day (Johannesburg)Johannesburg - A RARE opportunity to resolve one of Africa's most intractable conflicts could go begging unless a credible international mediator is found soon.
A low-level war has been fought in the oil-rich Niger Delta for almost a decade now. In the past three years alone, militant groups have kidnapped more than 250 expatriate oil workers and cut oil production by 1-million barrels a day. The conflict is a threat to the long-term stability of Nigeria and is spilling into the rest of the region. A recent coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea and an upsurge in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea emanate from the armed groups operating from the Delta.
Business Day (Johannesburg)Johannesburg - A RARE opportunity to resolve one of Africa's most intractable conflicts could go begging unless a credible international mediator is found soon.
A low-level war has been fought in the oil-rich Niger Delta for almost a decade now. In the past three years alone, militant groups have kidnapped more than 250 expatriate oil workers and cut oil production by 1-million barrels a day. The conflict is a threat to the long-term stability of Nigeria and is spilling into the rest of the region. A recent coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea and an upsurge in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea emanate from the armed groups operating from the Delta.
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Johannesburg — A RARE opportunity to resolve one of Africa's most intractable conflicts could go begging unless a credible international mediator is found soon.
A low-level war has been fought in the oil-rich Niger Delta for almost a decade now. In the past three years alone, militant groups have kidnapped more than 250 expatriate oil workers and cut oil production by 1-million barrels a day. The conflict is a threat to the long-term stability of Nigeria and is spilling into the rest of the region. A recent coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea and an upsurge in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea emanate from the armed groups operating from the Delta.
Daily Independent (Lagos)Lagos-based lawyer, Wilson Nnaji, has thrown his weight behind the decision of some state house of assemblies to enact law making kidnapping a capital offence punishable by death.
Nnaji, a former chairman of Rotary Club of Idi Araba, told Saturday Independent in an exclusive interview in his office that those who engage in this criminality that has further dented the image of the country in the international community deserve to pay the ultimate price.
Daily Independent (Lagos)Lagos-based lawyer, Wilson Nnaji, has thrown his weight behind the decision of some state house of assemblies to enact law making kidnapping a capital offence punishable by death.
Nnaji, a former chairman of Rotary Club of Idi Araba, told Saturday Independent in an exclusive interview in his office that those who engage in this criminality that has further dented the image of the country in the international community deserve to pay the ultimate price.