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Daily Independent (Lagos)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.
According to the group, its leader, Henry Okah, has already swung into consultations with the various camps in the region in a bid to fine-tune its proposals.
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.
Just as the sound of bombs from the Joint Task Force (JTF), which carried out a major campaign against the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) began dying down, religious insurgency in the North began on Sunday, throwing the polity into another wave of anxiety.
Fahamu (Oxford)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.
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.
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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.
This Day (Lagos)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.
Vanguard (Lagos)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.