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Daily Independent (Lagos)
interview
Lagos - JOSEPH AMBERKERIMO, National Chairman, South South Elements Progressives Union (SSEPU) has been an advocate of non-violent agitation for resource control. In this interview with Senior Correspondent, JOE NWANKWO, in Abuja he bares his mind on the activities of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the amnesty granted to militants by the Federal Government, the state of finance of Bayelsa State among other national issues.
Daily Independent (Lagos)
Warri - Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on Thursday denied insinuation in some quarters that it has put together a team to negotiate on its behalf with the Federal Government.
Daily Independent (Lagos)
Lagos - Opposition was again on the rally in Abuja on Thursday to sensitise Nigerians on the need for credible elections, the antidote to keeping the country one amid insurrection North and South.
opinion
It isn't an amnesty the people of the Niger Delta need to bring peace and security to the region, it's equity and good governance, Sabella Ogbobode Abidde tells Pambazuka News. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and other groups like it are justice-seeking groups fighting their people's cause, argues Abidde, and it is only when the government genuinely resolves to tackle underlying problems from environmental pollution to underdevelopment that the 'ongoing, low intensity conflict' in the Delta will abate.
Lagos - THISDAY has learnt that the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of Atlas Cove jetty, Lagos, Navy Commander Kolawole Aweh, who was killed by militants, complained to naval authorities about the security lapses at the facility shortly before it was attacked on the night of July 12.
The Federal Government's decision to reverse the upgrading of Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) Effurun, near Warri, to Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE) and relocate it to Kaduna where an existing National College of Petroleum Studies will be transformed to an institution of higher learning (presumably university) has incurred the anger and wrath of Niger Delta people.
At a Stakeholders' Forum, July 20, organized by the Delta State Government in Asaba to sensitize the people on the National Gas Master Plan, the participants and representatives of host communities were agitated by the issue of ownership and what the host communities and indigenes stand to gain by allowing the Federal Government and multinational companies to exploit gas in the state.
Awka - A youth group, Southern Youths Alliance (SYA) has called on Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to resign from office for what it described as his failure to bring peace to the troubled Niger Delta region.
Coordinator of the group, Mr. Nnonyelu Offoma in a statement in Awka, Anambra state yesterday, said it should be borne in mind that the Vice President was chosen for the office because it was expected that he would use the position to resolve the crisis in the region.
Awka — A youth group, Southern Youths Alliance (SYA) has called on Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to resign from office for what it described as his failure to bring peace to the troubled Niger Delta region.
Coordinator of the group, Mr. Nnonyelu Offoma in a statement in Awka, Anambra state yesterday, said it should be borne in mind that the Vice President was chosen for the office because it was expected that he would use the position to resolve the crisis in the region.
Abuja - The announcement of the reversal of the upgrade of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, Delta State, to a University of Petroleum Technology has come under attack by members of the House of Representatives from the South-South zone, calling for the sack of the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Alhaji Rilwanu Lukman.