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This Day (Lagos)Enugu State will serve as the co-ordinating centre for disarmament and the demobilisation of militants, THISDAY has learnt.
But Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) yesterday clarified its decision to suspend operations in Western Niger Delta, saying it was not as a result of increasing attacks by militants - who hit one of its facilities again yesterday.
Vanguard (Lagos)Abuja - President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua yesterday directed the chairman of the Presidential Panel on Amnesty and Disarmament of Militants in the Niger Delta, Gen. Godwin Abbe to immediately begin the process for a formal meeting with detained MEND chieftain, Mr. Henry Okah on behalf of the Federal Government and formally offer him amnesty.
Vanguard (Lagos)Warri - THE price of crude oil, yesterday, rose above the $70 per barrel mark as militants in the early hours of the day bombed an offshore platform of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) located at Forcados in Delta State and purportedly sank a gunboat carrying between 20-23 soldiers, a claim that the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta promptly denied.
This Day (Lagos)Enugu State will serve as the co-ordinating centre for disarmament and the demobilisation of militants, THISDAY has learnt.
But Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) yesterday clarified its decision to suspend operations in Western Niger Delta, saying it was not as a result of increasing attacks by militants - who hit one of its facilities again yesterday.
Vanguard (Lagos)Abuja - President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua yesterday directed the chairman of the Presidential Panel on Amnesty and Disarmament of Militants in the Niger Delta, Gen. Godwin Abbe to immediately begin the process for a formal meeting with detained MEND chieftain, Mr. Henry Okah on behalf of the Federal Government and formally offer him amnesty.
Vanguard (Lagos)Warri - THE price of crude oil, yesterday, rose above the $70 per barrel mark as militants in the early hours of the day bombed an offshore platform of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) located at Forcados in Delta State and purportedly sank a gunboat carrying between 20-23 soldiers, a claim that the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta promptly denied.
Enugu State will serve as the co-ordinating centre for disarmament and the demobilisation of militants, THISDAY has learnt.
But Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) yesterday clarified its decision to suspend operations in Western Niger Delta, saying it was not as a result of increasing attacks by militants - who hit one of its facilities again yesterday.
Daily Independent (Lagos)
Militants on Monday blew up Shell pipelines in Forcados in Delta State, making nonsense of the amnesty offered by the government in exchange for the renounciation of violence.
This Day (Lagos)The threat by militants to cripple Nigeria's oil export is gradually being actualised as Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has suspended its entire operations in the Western Niger Delta, covering Delta State and parts of Bayelsa State, THISDAY has learnt.
Vanguard (Lagos)The Presidential Committee On Amnesty and Disarmament has reiterated that there is no condition attached to the release of the leader of Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah.
According to Dr. Timiebi Koripamo-Agary, the Media Coordinator of the Presidential Committee on Amnesty and Disarmament, Okah, who is on trial in Jos, Plateau State, will be freed after diplomatic formalities had been concluded with the presidents of Angola and Equatorial Guinea.